March 2008
My Twitter Follow Policy →
I’m a passionate about Twitter. I spend more time in on it than in any other social media venue. Twitter has been good to me. It is the source of leads for my text and video blogs, not to mention…
Blogging simplified with WordPress 2.5 →
I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the content management system released yesterday.
For me, upgrading was simplicity itself as I used the 1-click install…
Content owners should drop Yahoo for Google →
Yahoo made a huge critical blunder today: they decided to compete with their customers. Today they launched a content site called Shine dedicated to women. It looks really slick, and they make a…
Ladies and Gentleman, The Conversation Has Left... →
Earlier this year, I wrote “The Value of Online Conversations,” to share and talk through my thoughts related to improving the quality of online discussions in the face of potential…
Why Social Media Leadership Won’t Come from Public... →
Steve Rubel of Edelman wrote a post the other day that got me thinking. His premise was that social media specialists will no longer exist in the near future. Given what we do at Ignite Social…
Why Social Media Leadership Won’t Come from Public... →
Steve Rubel of Edelman wrote a post the other day that got me thinking. His premise was that social media specialists will no longer exist in the near future. Given what we do at Ignite Social…
Forrester Research Unlocks Powerful Application to... →
Forrester Research has just opened to the public a powerful application and database which analysts have used to gauge the interest of customers in participating in social networks. The …
12 Tested Ways to Use a Mantra →
“I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.” [Ludwig van Beethoven] A mantra is a religious or…
Woopra: Free Java-based Site Analytics Application... →
Fan of Java applications? Here’s one for you. It’s called Woopra.
Demonstrated first on video today at WordCamp Dallas (our own Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins is in attendance, as you’ve seen in…
Do You ooVoo? →
If you’re really into a certain tool and use it to connect with someone, you should make sure they don’t work for a competing tool. That’s the lesson I learned Saturday night when I Skyped Scott…
Yahoo Shines A Light On Women 25 To 54 →
Yahoo has launched Shine, a new content portal aimed at women aged 25 to 54.
At its core, Shine is a large blog with magazine style layout. Content is broken up into various subcategories…
Social Media Starter Moves for Entertainers →
Twitter brought me a really special gift a month or two back, in the shape of Grace Nikae. She’s a concert pianist who is exploring the use of social media to build relationships with her…
Forrester Research Unlocks Powerful Application to... →
Forrester Research has just opened to the public a powerful application and database which analysts have used to gauge the interest of customers in participating in social networks. The …
Hivelogic: Offices and The Creativity Zone →
Via John Gruber’s Daring Fireball
R.E.M. - Accelerate - Music - New York Times →
Great band, great memories.
Taming the Inbox- One Week Later →
A little over a week ago, I wrote about cleaning out my inbox. I’ve learned a bit in the previous week, and want to pass on my learnings to those of you who are following along and working on…
Benefits of Having a Community Manager →
This post is primarily intended for companies wondering why they should create a Community Manager position? But it also gives those interested in the occupation a high level overview of the…
Launching a Book via Social Media →
Book launches are commonplace. At least that’s the thinking of Rohit Bhargava, author of the new book Personality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get…
Life Coding: 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our... →
Editor’s note: This post written by Glen Stansberry of LifeDev (feed ).
As a web developer, I’m constantly struggling with the concept of feature creep. Feature creep is when the developer…
How Backpack is Saving My Sanity →
In the last few months, my life has changed significantly. My company was acquired in December and our corporate structure is significantly different. I have a number of accounts assigned to me…
R.E.M. - Accelerate - Music - New York Times →
Great band, great memories.
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Mobile Web Trends & Products, March '08... →
When it comes to keeping track of Mobile Web trends and products, Rudy De Waele has his finger constantly on the pulse. This month Rudy gave a presentation at the Plugg Conference in Brussels…
Trying to focus and get some work done. Not successful so far…
Twitter will Devolve →
I realized over the last few days that Twitter is reaching an apex of sorts and will start devolving from this utopian paradise of geekdom into a normal online community. This means that the…
Hivelogic: Offices and The Creativity Zone →
Via John Gruber’s Daring Fireball
Is Tagcow the Future of Photo Recognition and... →
Ok, now I have no idea exactly how this works and I’m still trying to figure it out, but this could be something very, very cool. On Thursday I got an email from a company…
Typography: Going back to the future →
For the past twenty years or so many software companies have oversold “quick & easy” design, just as late-night TV informercials today oversell the idea of losing weight without having to…
The Four Cs of Social Engagement →
Often, social media is referred to as “the conversation.” But on tomorrow’s Buzz Bin post, I argue that in actuality for companies conversation is not the end result. Instead it’s just…
Wiki collaboration leads to happiness (updated and... →
Earlier in the week I posted Chris Rasmussen’s wonderful depiction of the merits of wiki collaboration. I noted then how a participant at a recent talk I gave at Nokia had pointed out that…
Trying to find a new way of balancing my work life with everything else (especially blogging). Hard.
Everyone have their lights off? Good.
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LiveBook Aims to Write Novel on Facebook, Bebo →
LiveBook is a new collaborative writing project that aims to write two separate novels via applications on two different social networks: one on Facebook, the other on Bebo. The Facebook…
Entourage GTD Action Scripts 4D - Create link to... →
Entourage GTD Action Scripts 4D
Entourage GTD Action Scripts … These scripts allow you to create a linked task, event, note or email from any other task, event, note or email in…
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Twitter Is My Social Computer –How it could extend... →
Computers exist everywhere
It took me a while to figure out that wherever I go, whenever I want, I’ve access to one of the world’s most powerful computers. It’s not an IBM Mainframe that spans my…
VoodooPad Bookmarklets →
VoodooPad has had bookmarklet support for over a year now, but it’s hardly ever used because I told like 4 people about it. It’s a pretty handy feature though- basically you get the web browser to…
Top ten artists suffering the Lindsey Buckingham... →
Top ten artists suffering the Lindsey Buckingham Paradox. The Lindsey Buckingham Paradox is what happens when otherwise brilliant musicians decide they’re better than their bandmates (creative…
When reaching out to bloggers, don't ask for... →
Lately I’ve been getting dozens of pitches a week from PR people who want me to write about their stuff on this blog. Most of the pitches are just spam, with the PR types using the exact same…
Even IT Execs Are Feeling The Hurt By Ignoring... →
“Not embracing social networking is like saying I’d rather hide my money under the mattress than put it in a bank. Companies make a big mistake when they prohibit these tools out of the sheer fear…
How to Update & Automate Your Blogroll in 5... →
I had noticed that my blogroll in my sidebar was horribly out of date. I’ve discovered many new voices over the last 6 months or so (the last time I think I updated it) and I wanted something…
Social Networking Features are Toilets →
In the future, social networking features will be like toilets.
Charlene Li is quoted in The Economist as saying:
Future social networks, she thinks, “will be like air. They will be…
Folding it up with Nice Paper Toys →
Nice Paper Toys is a network for people who take paper folding seriously. This is not the paper airplane you remember making in elementary school! Members have posted hundreds of …
Social Media Starter Moves for Real Estate →
Disclaimer right up front: I’m not in the real estate biz, so I’ll write this from the perspective of what I’ve observed and what might be useful. Some REAL real estate pro can come and fix…
Steve Jobs portrait made up of Apple products via... →
Steve Jobs portrait made up of Apple products via www.etoday.ru
Comment of the Day: Semantic Marketing →
Today’s winning comment comes from Alex Iskold’s must-read post Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies. In the post Alex identifies the patterns that are beginning to emerge in…
Crazy day here in the office - everything blasting off at the same time!
I pledge allegiance... →
Yesterday, I had my citizenship interview in Hartford and passed :) Soon I’ll pledge my allegiance and be sworn in as an American citizen. I’ve spent the past 11 years here in the US. My…
Ira Glass, entropy, and software development →
All web apps are trying to suck. They are trying to be bloated. They are trying to be unstructured. They are trying to be confusing. You are the stopgap. You are the one who stands between order…