Last Friday my friend Colleen Coplick presented to the Vancouver chapter of CPRS (PR people group) on blogs and social media. I got a sneak peak at her slides Thursday night (she asked for feedback). I think she was right on the mark and didn’t have too many (26, about right for an hour).
However it […]
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Morning radio shows should have blogs don’t you think? There are always funny stories, community projects, contests, something to talk about. Well the morning show I listen to on 107.3 Kool FM here in Victoria doesn’t have one so, I sent Robin Farrell this email yesterday morning:
BTW … why don’t you guys have a […]
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This post is part of my blog claiming process of BlogRize (thanks Louis for the invite!). BlogRize is based in Vancouver and once I play with it more … I’ll give you more info:
In closing the inaugural post - I really think we’ve developed something special with a lot of potential. If you agree […]
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A month ago BuddyPress was acquired by Automattic and today the new BuddyPress website was launched:
Right now BuddyPress is still in development, but you can download the latest BuddyPress builds through SVN if you’re game.
Is this a game changer for social networks?
If BuddyPress becomes a popular add on for WordPress Multiuser, then I think, as […]
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On FreelanceSwitch Muhammad Saleem is giving some great tips on how to use social media tools, but not get overwhelmed in the process.
I’ve been meaning to write this post since part 1, but then came part 2, and today part 3:
Social Media and Simplicity, Part 1: Reduce
Social Media and Simplicity, Part 2: Organize
Social Media and […]
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As part of Chris’ continuing 100 Social Media tips, he posted some great tips for freelancers on how to leverage social media tools and techniques for more business/profile:
Summary
If you’re a freelancer hoping to use social media to get work, here’s a quick summary:
Make your blog your storefront.
Kill all the extraneous stuff from it.
Write posts that […]
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This morning I read about Chris Pirillo’s call for an easy-to-use, Drupal-based (I think those are mutually exclusive terms, imho) community system. I read the first few posts this morning about it (admittedly, I didn’t watch the video, though) and while I think it’s a laudable goal, I’m not sure how easily it can be […]
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Another great post started from a tweet. Gabe Rivera posted a link to Ed Bott’s column ranting on the plethora of “me too” posts on Techmeme. The mindless recitation of what other people wrote without adding to the discussion.
And Ed is right.
Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. […]
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Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. My own take, which isn’t all that awe inspiring, but I do fall into the “FriendFeed makes my info overload worse” camp.
In a guest post on Read/Write Web, Muhammad Saleem interviews SocialThing! CEO Matt Galligan and we get […]
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Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post this morning about the wax and wane of Internet and social media-based careers (ooh is that a spam-bait intro or what!) saying that several “specialist” jobs are doomed for the dust bin.
In many ways, he has a point. We will be expected as part of our jobs to […]
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