December 2007
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On Demand Business : Blogs : "Turbo" Todd Watson — IBM Corporation
IBM talks about Twitter
Hitting Your Target for 2008 →
Resolutions, as you might have already determined for yourself, rarely succeed. The problem is that they’re based on thinking that stems from you thinking guilty thoughts about things you should do better. You start by thinking about your weakness, and then you make plans about how to shore up those things that you’re weakest in handling successfully. I believe that this is the heart of the...
Goal Setting Tips →
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WordPress Hoodies →
A least for those of your in the Northern hemisphere, it’s been a little chilly recently. If you’re like me you’re thinking, “WordPress keeps my servers running hot, couldn’t it warm me too?”
Yes, it can.
You can now buy hip WordPress hoodies in our store so when you’re not blogging you can loiter around the neighborhood like the people in the picture above. As before, we ship locally and...
Help Me Solve a Problem →
Thankful as I am for followers in Twitter, I need a way to streamline the process of adding people back. I’ve timed it and it takes me about 24 seconds from clicking on the message in my inbox to adding the person on the Twitter site, to comin back and deleting a message. That means, whenever I get a batch of new followers (about 30-60 a day right now), I’m going through a rather time-consuming...
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DemoPress | Just another WordPress weblog
Media 2008 is a Mix-Get Mixing →
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iEllie.com is a personal blog by a college student majoring in mass communications, focusing on PR. Her blog is an interesting peek into the heads of college students and how they’re viewing blogs, media making, and media consumption. Encapsulated on the first page alone are some interesting points to consider. And before you go and dismiss the blog for being...
How Being Nice Impacts the Value of Social Media →
Yesterday, Clarence Smith, Jr, and I took on social media, round one. Today, none other than Eric Rice gets into the conversation, and so you know there won’t be punches pulled. Here I am, Mister Nice Guy, ready to get into it with two guys who want to lay out the truth. Will I hold up?
Check out the post and find out!!!
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Take My Google Reader Shared Items PLEASE →
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Google, I love shared items. I love, love, love that you’ve equipped me with tools to share things I like, to pimp my own blog, to go out and find other people shared feeds and get a human-aggregated view of the web. I love it to death, and I’m glad you’re sharing the tools with me to involve other people in the game.
Okay, I get that this was like the old days...
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Internet Marketing Best Blog Posts of 2007 » techipedia | tamar weinberg
This is a really great collection of articles.
Twitter at Velocity →
Twitter is tricky sometimes, especially when you have a bunch of people added into the stream. It’s something that I will blog about tomorrow at greater length, but I wanted to just jot something, almost as a note to myself, but that might bear some consideration. Twitter, I believe, is two different things depending on how many folks you’re following, and I believe it should be viewed as...
Keys to the Gates of Social Media →
Conversations can be so cool. Clarence and I got into a conversation about how Twitter presents information, especially the difference between following friends and following conversations. It led to a collaborative blog post between Clarence and me. What we’ve started here, hopefully, is a conversation, and not just a statement. We don’t know all the answers, but we know what we want.
Add your...
No Predictions for 2008- NEEDS →
Predictions are all over the web right now. I *could* follow that trend, but I won’t. Instead, I’m going to tell you about my NEEDS for 2008, and hope that they thread well with where the Internet is going. I’m going to bet that lots of you have similar needs, and insofar as you’re smart, and know smart people, if we surface our needs, perhaps we’ll find our solutions faster.
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Social Media is a Set Not a Part →
Corporations are built of very distinct pieces. People understand their jobs, their duties, and how they will be measured. This very thinking is industrial in nature. It fits well in 1900’s-era thinking. If you are a machinist, your job is to turn out perfect gears. If you are a painter, your job is to paint your parts expertly and waste less paint. But in an age where pretty much everything...
Let it snow! Let it snow! →
True story: I never touched snow that stayed on the ground until I was 21. It was at Lake Tahoe, and technically it was on a beach, but I still had no idea what to do with this strange stuff. (Pictured on right.)
Growing up in Houston, where I’m visiting now, it gets plenty cold and often rains, but snow? Never. I think once when I was in elementary school some flakes fell from the sky and the...
Take My Site- Please →
Collaboration and sharing are the building blocks of what most people call Web 2.0. Sites like mine are made better when YOU take a post of mine and riff off it on your own site, or when I come along, find something cool you’ve written, and reference it here. Some folks aren’t comfortable understanding what’s considered okay to do and not okay to do, and lots of people have strong opinions on how...
Holiday Projects with Social Media →
Digital cameras and computers and portable media players are popular gifts for the holiday season. Instead of just smiling happily when someone (or you!) receive these as a gift, how about recommending a project to put those gifts to use right away? Here are some suggestions for projects you can start right there and then with your new holiday electronics gifts.
Take a Generations Photo Series-...
Bypassing the Every Day →
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Avatars in Dashboard →
Now when you go to your comments, moderation, or Akismet screen you’ll see avatars or gravatars for people who have them. Like so:
Also check out the effect when you approve or unapprove comments.
Hopefully this livens up your comment moderation experience a bit! (We seem to be all about livening up lately, we need new catchphrases.)
For Those Who Pea on Social Media →
Mainstream media thinks about social media: whether to crush it, whether to join it, whether to just ignore it. Marketers wonder if they should use it as the new way to reach customers. Oh maybe social media is about peas.
Susan Reynolds Pea’d Herself
Susan Reynolds is an artist, and a creative soul, and I met her earlier in 2007 via Twitter. She is part of the more “social” side of Twitter,...
Seo By The Sea →
great read on social media marketing !
Twitter Revisited →
Twitter is the stupidest thing anyone could ever imagine inventing. If I said to you, “I’ve got an application that I want you to install that is addictive, time consuming, cross-platform accessible, and otherwise as sprawling as kudzu,” would you say yes? No. Of course not.
And yet, Twitter has single-handedly changed my 2007. It added tons more connectivity to my universe. It’s given me...
Social Media for Your Career →
Today’s career environment is different, at least for the information workers. What’s different is that there are more ways to influence getting a job than in the past. You probably already know that the old saying is true: “it’s not what you know; it’s who you know.” Well, the people you know has expanded a bit, thanks to social networks, and what people know about you has grown, too, thanks in...
Not Fast Enough →
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Enhanced Feeds liven up your feed →
Blogs have a powerful feature called in RSS feeds that enables people to read and keep track of their favourite blogs easily in aggregators like Bloglines and Google Reader. RSS readers of your blog never have to wonder if it has been updated because their news reader will tell them within an hour or two whenever you make a post.
Up until now your feed has been fairly basic. All you got in most...
Happy Birthday Katrina →
Katrina is my beautiful and amazing wife. You don’t see me write very much about here on here because she lives her life differently than I do. She’s not as public with her digital lifestyle. Yes, she reads Twitter, and she has a Flickr account, and a blog, and Facebook, and she does all kinds of really cool things with social media. But she’s not very public about it, so I don’t often mention...
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Amazon Web Services Blog: A Place for Everything - Amazon SimpleDB
I think this is a hugely powerful point and technology.
Feature: The 20 Best iPod Utilities
The Power of Comments →
Today’s Social Media 100 post is 100% inside the comments, and YOU are going to help write it. Click the comments button and let’s write a collaborative post.
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Stat Chart Quick Switch →
Back in the day we added the ability to chart weeks and months in your stats section. It looked like this:
The bummer was whenever you clicked one of the links it would have to reload the entire page, slowing down the gratification of checking your stats over and over. No longer!
Now when you click the tabs, which look like tabs instead of links, they’ll instantly load a new chart, or at...
Implications of a Google Social Network →
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Google has something really clever here. Look over a few recent, subtle moves. Google adds AIM functionality into GTALK, so you can use either Google Talk or your AIM ID. Google adds Friends to Reader, meaning that anyone with a Google account can share information back and forth with Google Reader. Google slips profiles into the “Friends” action, but it’s clear that...
Google Launches Social Network →
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Google slipped a social network into Reader last night while I was sleeping. It’s simple, and unobtrusive, and gently prompts me to add more info, if I want. It’s about sharing your news- for now. But there it is. There’s Google’s simple, easy, I’m -destined-to-use-it social network right there.
Facebook, I hear bells tolling.
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34- Winter Day
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Marketing is NOT Social Media-Social Media is NOT... →
Have you ever had that experience where you realize that you actually KNOW something, versus feeling like you’re still learning it? For instance, when you go from having to think which one is a G chord on a guitar and which one is a C (guitar players: did you just flash to a visualization of the positioning?), what does that feel like? That knowing?
When we learn, we train and practice and...
snowfall 2-the sequel →
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snowfall →
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Links for 2007-12-12 [del.icio.us] →
Cisco Creates Entertainment Operating System - New York Times
This is really MUCH bigger than it seems, or it could be.
The inside-out social network | FactoryCity
A bit heavy but if you parse this, it’s pretty fascinating stuff
What Friends and Seinfeld Teaches You About... →
Back in the 1990s, NBC had this perfect little plan for their super powered Thursday night line up. They’d run Friends, then some other show, then Seinfeld, and then some other show, then ER. The “other show” slots were where they placed their not-so-popular products that hadn’t yet learned to stand on their own. They were incubator spots. And that’s my recommendation to you, if you’re looking to...
Vintage Metal Furniture — Mulberry Street →
We’re syndicated! | TechBurgh →
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Global Neighbourhoods: Blog Council & State of the Revolution
Shel just pwns this analysis. Top shelf. Clearly SAP has been good to him.
The Next Social Network: WordPress - GigaOM
This has some real strength behind it, especially with Messina attached.
Traffic Tree →
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http://mulberrystreetonline.com/a-rescued-chair-and... →
art of resoration still exists
Help Someone Understand Social Media →
Presumably, most of you reading this site “get it” about social media. You understand that it’s about the conversation. You understand that transparency is important. You get the power of raises voices in bringing about change, and how these new tools deliver these abilities to individuals and organizations alike. Sure, you might learn the occasional thing here, but for the most part, you’re the...
Game Play →
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Baja 1000 and Twitter
Social Media as Personal Power →
Enterprise software isn’t very sexy. I agree with Robert Scoble’s perspective on this. And though others are disagreeing with this, people like Nick Carr are seeing Scoble’s point. The conversation around the argument is that enterprise applications aren’t meant to be sexy; they’re meant to work flawlessly for the organization. Well here’s where it’s interesting to me.
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Goodbye Marc Orchant →
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Husband, father, blogger, and all-around super nice guy, Marc Orchant, has passed away. I wish Sue and family peace after sorrow, and hope after grief. It’s a difficult time to know what would be the right thing to say. Everyone says that. So, my version of the right thing to say was that I spent a little time in Marc’s presence, and thought he was super swell. I was a...
Steve Rubel - Mahalo →
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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
With a hat tip to mitch joel, a great way to think about sustainability, using our type of media.