What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? RSS News Aggregation And Re-Publi..
Friday, August 15, 2008
What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? RSS News Aggregation And Re-Publishing For Beginners Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , toread , RSS .. read more..
Rightmedia hurts sites.. « The Paradigm Shift
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Dating mega-site is critical of complex ad network's load time and its impact on pageviews. Short, interesting read. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , advertising .. read more..
Twelve best practices for online customer communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDN..
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Also marked "to read," but anything Dion Hinchcliffe writes like this should be worth a look. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toread , toshare , communities , enterprise .. read more..
How to Keep Track of the Margins of Your Blogosphere
Monday, August 11, 2008
I contributed a tutorial session to the BlogOn Expo Summer 2008 last week that I thought could be of interest to readers here. It's titled " Tracking the Margins of Your Blogosphere and it's all about a method I use to keep an eye on the most important news from sectors I am marginally interested in. The whole Expo should be worth some of your time, the last one was quite good. I feel conflicted about the decision I have learned that the Expo has made to do a publicity deal with Izea/PayPerPost, who are scumbags. I can understand why the Expo would do so and I can understand why armies of beginning bloggers would work with Izea. However, I do not like the idea of advertisers paying for blog coverage and I do not believe them when they say disclosure is required. See image below, click for full size. Why did I contribute to the BlogOnExpo? I didn't know about the Izea partnership until after I already had and I'm not sure how big a deal it is. I do want to be clear though that I am in no way in support of Izea. That said, I hope you like the content that I and a number of other bloggers contributed to the Expo. .. read more..
Changes: I’m Joining RWW Full Time & Getting Married!
Friday, August 1, 2008
I'm making two exciting announcements tonight. Personal Most important, I'm getting married to my partner Mikalina! Many of my work contacts here on the blog haven't met Mikalina but many of you have. She's wonderful and I love her very much. We've been together for more than 4 years already and she's studying to be an environmental engineer. Or a ceramicist - she's a rock star in both and hasn't decided what to do about it yet. We're looking to get married pretty darned soon, I proposed to her last weekend when we were vacationing on the Oregon Coast. Yay! Work Changes Readers here may or may not have known that I have only been working roughly half time at ReadWriteWeb since I came on board there in September . That's now going to change. The other 30 hours each week has been spent doing consulting, for more companies than I can count right now. I absolutely love consulting - but ReadWriteWeb is growing fast and site editor Richard MacManus has offered me a great full time position as his VP of Content Development . I'll be working there full time on a number of initiatives that we'll be rolling out in the coming months. For now we're saying that I'm going to be working on premium content, publishing systems and all-around magic, some of which will be behind the scenes. I'll also continue working in my capacity as lead writer there, so you can expect roughly the same output from me as well. I am really excited about getting to bring some of my other ideas to fruition with a team of good people and Richard's support, though. I'm very proud to have been part of the team at RWW that helped the site move from being the 27th most linked-to blog on the web up to #9 today . (Take that Mashable! And look out, ICanHasCheezburger , we're coming to get you next! I kid, kind of.) Consulting I'm really going to miss the rush of consulting, but in order to stay fresh and in touch with the market, I will continue offering one 1 hour consulting session per week. Those sessions are fast paced and a lot of fun, so let me know if you're interested in scheduling one. Feedback from past associates and clients can be found here . Did I Mention That I'm Getting Married? Thanks for all the interest and support that friends have offered here and privately. I'm very excited to be moving into new stages in the two most important parts of my life. I think many of you will really like what you see us come up with over at ReadWriteWeb. The joy that will come from the transition in my personal life will be much less public but I thought I'd let readers here know about it too. .. read more..
A Small Study Of Big Blogs: Further Findings | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Thursday, July 31, 2008
A study of the Technorati top 50 for design. Pretty interesting. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , toread , blogs , design .. read more..
Linden Scripting For Noobs: MIT Media Lab Makes Intuitive LSL Script Builder
Thursday, July 31, 2008
A great example of programming made easy with the use of a Graphic User Interface, in this case for adding interactivity to SecondLife objects. This is the kind of thing we'll see more and more of on all kinds of platforms. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , gaming , SecondLife , programming , GUI .. read more..
Social Networks: To My Future Self...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
An hour long video from the maker of The Machine is Using Us, about the anthropology of YouTube, presented to the Library of Congress. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toread , toshare , youtube , video .. read more..
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
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I’m Making Changes - Get Your Consulting Now If You Want It
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Late next week I'll be announcing a change to my work life. It's exciting stuff that I hope readers here will appreciate, but it will lead to a major reduction in the time I spend doing consulting work. I'll be finishing up projects that have already begun (if I haven't discussed this with you don't worry about it) but I won't be taking on new projects after next week. I honestly love consulting and will continue offering limited one hour sessions periodically, but I will no longer be spending half of my time on it. I've got another opportunity I can't pass up. In other words, if you've been thinking of getting in touch with me for a high-energy, rapid-fire one hour session about product usability, market positioning or launch planning - now's the time because the pipe is going to be far more narrow very soon. I've been doing three or four one hour sessions per month for the past year and people love them . Let me know if you want to do one next week by email at marshall@marshallk.com Otherwise, hang tight for some news next week. It's nothing earth shaking but it should be pretty exciting. Thanks as always for your ongoing support. .. read more..
Live Mesh Scenarios Directory (Tutorials)
Friday, July 18, 2008
Curious about what Live Mesh lets users do? Here are 4 tutorials to start off, more apparently on the way. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , mesh , microsoft , tutorials .. read more..
Globalizatoin at AboutUs: It's Cooler Than You Might Think
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Interesting discussion of AboutUs and their office in Pakistan. AboutUs is a past consulting client of mine and this situation is one worth reading about. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , globalization , wikis .. read more..
Do Startups Need Community Managers?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
One of the things I've been advising clients to do a lot lately is consider hiring a full or part-time community manager to communicate closely with their users online. I thought I'd write a post about why community managers are good to have, but then I thought that instead I'd ask it as a question. Do startups need community managers? If not, I'll stop suggesting that so many of them make that type of hire! That's how I phrased a deliberately vague question on Twitter , and it got some great replies by email and on FriendFeed ! Twenty people replied, many of whom are community managers, others of whom have hired community managers and a couple of others are cautionary or cynical. It's a great discussion! Most of these thoughts are unique and very worth considering - even if they don't all agree. I'm going to turn these replies into a coherent (and weighty) post on ReadWriteWeb in the morning but I thought I would post them online first and let people knock them around a bit more first. Would you like to respond to any of these arguments in the finished post? If so, please leave a comment here and make sure you tell me where to link your name to. IF for some reason you were under the mistaken impression you would not be quoted in responding to this question, or would like to change what I've got you down for saying - email me at marshall@marshallk.com. I'll be cutting the text here way, way down to just the heart of what everyone's saying. I was planning on putting these up on a wiki first and encouraging people to go over there and make edits for replies - I've done that before - but then I thought that sounded like a missed opportunity. So here's a discussion that will turn into a blog post - your thoughts are formally requested...big thanks to the people who have already joined in. I'll include my own thoughts in the final post. PS. Big congrats to Drew Olanoff, who was just named Community Manager and Evangelist for Strands.com today! . . . I do think that startups need community managers, but that being said it depends on the community and what needs to be managed. A lot of what I do at CubeSpace is function as a startup community management, but that is very different than the work that Dawn does. I think it depends on the style and distractability of the folks in the startup and how they like to collaborate with peers as well as how they define their peers. I am not trying to be cryptic, I have just worked with a range of startups who need different kind of support and community management. I would be happy to have a longer conversation with you about this if you are interested. It might also be a good session for http://www.sideprojecttostartup.com/. -Eva Eva Sari Schweber Chief Cat Herder CubeSpace, Your WorkSpace Community Read on for the rest of the discussion Hutch Carpenter points to a blog post about how a good community manager saves money on PR and has other benefits. http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/smart-social-media-marketing-caleb-elston-and-toluu/ interacting with bloggers saves money on PR I firmly believe that the community manager should be one of the first hires - right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corp. marketing people. I have my reasons and am happy to get into details. -- John Mark Walker Community Manager, CollabNet http://www.collab.net/ Just saw your Twitter post about community managers. Pandora just created this position about 4 months ago and it’s been INVALUABLE to our company, in such a short time! We are very active on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr etc. I’d be happy to have you speak to our Community Manager if you’d like. It’s opened a whole new world of communications for us! Lucia Willow—she’s great and has a great, fun online voice. With the iPhone/Pandora launch on Friday, the Twitter network and followers were making tons of buzz! It was very exicitng.. that we even posted a haiku contest for some free Pandora swag to the Twitters! Kim Bardakian Sr. Communications Manager Pandora Someone else sent in a link to a slide deck regarding The Costs of community managers http://www.cybersoc.com/2008/06/my-slideshow-fr.html Community management is essentially a public relationship issue, so whoever picks up that gauntlet is on point for representing their company to the rest of us. It doesn't have to be a specific person or a full time job , but it is part of starting and running a business, almost by definition: if you're in business, you're doing community management whether you like it or not. Peat Bakke peat.org If by "community managers" you mean someone that keeps track of what is happening in a certain community, then yes, startups need a community manager. Especially if that company pays attention to social media. Social media is so important for many companies these days, but the sheer volume of information that is shared can be a problem for them. I think it takes at least one person in a startup to "keep an ear to the ground". That person should be reading feeds all day and paying attention for appropriate information and content. That person should be writing a blog and listening to their other networks. A social network community manager should learn about what is happening in that company's field every day and report it to their team. Doug Coleman I think it's an important *function* to be filled, but it's not necessary to have a position dedicated to it. I think it's a matter of resources - I know some firms that have a full time head very early and some keep it to an intern after they're 100+ people. But it is important to *do*. I fill it in between the other things I do - vendor relationships, inbound inquiries, sales calls, balancing the books, etc. I do wish I had more time/resources to it, however - I'm much more reactive than I am proactive. dawdledotcom is our username on a variety of sites, from Twitter to CheapAssGamer to all sorts of sites in between. I use Summize and Google Alerts to monitor what people are saying, and we have a board on GetSatisfaction (empty for now, but ready to be used). Our contact us page encourages people to ask each other and post on other sites before coming to us - we're happy to help, but I'd wager that other users know how to get the most out of our site better than even we do. Hope that helps! Cheers, Sachin -- Sachin Agarwal I put down a lot of thoughts about community building last week on Rick’s blog: http://siliconflorist.com/2008/07/08/community-the-secret-sauce-of-a-successful-internet-startup/ My opinion on community managers is that they are OK when you’ve established a community. Not for just launched startups. You need to be in the thick of it managing your own community in the early days. Cheers, -D Darius A Monsef IV Executive Editor & Creator www.COLOURlovers.com It depends on the startup. For startups where community is a critical element of the product or service (Twitter, open source product, etc.), I think that a community manager should be an early hire. Having someone in place and responsible for managing the community helps make sure that the company is responding to the needs of the community. Without a community manager, the frantic pace of the startup environment can mean that the community gets neglected simply because no single person is tasked with being responsible for it. This neglect could result in failure for the startup if the community is critical. In many startups, the community manager can wear another hat, too. I worked at one startup where I was the Director of Community and Partner Programs, since partners were a big part of the community. Other logical combinations include some marketing roles, social media (blogging / podcasting), developer relations (for developer communities) or website development depending on the skills of the person in the role. I think that each startup needs to decide exactly how critical the community is to their particular business and use that information to decide when to hire a community manager. My 2 cents. Take care, Dawn -- Visit my blog at http://fastwonderblog.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marshall, that's a story I'd like to read! Great benefits could be gained by establishing links between a startup and it's followers, early. However, the community voice needs to be free The community manager would need the suport of the community. There is a danger that a community voice in management would have split loyalties. Maybe even tied by NDA's. This would make him/her more of a hostage (worse case). If these fears, as well as the benefits, can be voiced and talked about there is great merit to your idea. Best wishes Jonas Anderson Start ups and all companies that exist online need to be looking at a community manager as a salaried position. We have been working with big brands and it kills me when they just give "social media" to someone that already has 10 other roles.. .. read more..
NPR cancel Bryant Park Project - Can a hybrid work?: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News,..
Monday, July 14, 2008
A good discussion of the now late NPR show that mixed radio and social media. I was a guest on this show once. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , radio , social media , mixed models .. read more..
5 Minute Intro to Yahoo Pipes
Monday, July 14, 2008
I'm in the San Francisco airport flying back from a wonderful Foo Camp where I lead a discussion about RSS power user tips. It was a lot of fun. Several of the attendees had never used Yahoo! Pipes , one of the most powerful tools in the RSS toolbox. I told them that I too didn't really learn to use Pipes for a long, long time after I first discovered it because it seemed too complicated for my poor little non-developer's head. Once I was shown just two buttons to push in the service, though, I found out that some great results are actually very easy to achieve using Pipes. Just seeing some one do the simplest things there makes it a lot less scary. In that same spirit, I offer the following 5 minute screencast demonstrating 3 simple things you can do with Pipes. I hope it emboldens you to learn how to do even more with the service, but even if you only feel comfortable doing this much - I believe it will still prove very, very useful. Plus it will keep your toes safe (you'll know what I mean after watching the video below. .. read more..
Female CEOs at top Silicon Valley tech firms down to zero - San Jose Mercury New..
Friday, July 11, 2008
Just one more data point concerning gender and tech. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , gender , tech , women .. read more..
NxE's Fifty Most Influential ‘Female' Bloggers
Friday, July 11, 2008
Interesting list of women power-bloggers. Do you know these writers? You should. There were several here that I had never heard of or didn't know much about. Worth a look. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , women , bloggers , blogher .. read more..
“Blogging Is Easy, Anyone Can Do It” Actually, It’s Not So Simple
Thursday, July 10, 2008
If you're looking to engage in online conversations with a wide variety of people in different circumstances, it's important to recognize that the playing field is not level. Though blogging software lowered the technical barriers to participation, there remain substantial political and cultural issues that complicate adoption of these kinds of technologies by people with particular life experiences. Two important opportunities to learn about these issues are in the news right now. Please check out this article on Silicon Alley Insider (and follow the links) and check out the Blogher conference, which just kicked off today. Racism and sexism are two of the issues that many people face online. On a strategic level, to draw the lowest kind of analogy, failure to recognize the race and gender realities different people face on and offline is like trying to design a web page without recognizing that different browsers render HTML differently. (Forgive me for the clumsy analogy.) Though users may have free choice between browsers, and people have some choice about their response to race and gender politics, people who are not white and male don't have much choice about those circumstances. And being "other" than white and male is not "a problem" like using Internet Explorer instead of Firefox - it's a hell of a lot more complicated than that. Enough with that analogy then. I bring this up just to say that no matter what your political views may be, trying humbly to understand where other people are coming from will make you a more effective communicator. There are millions of people on the web with millions of different experiences, but the types of experiences we can learn about by paying attention to this conversation and this conference are ones that a large number of people have had. Even if you don't think it's a matter of justice, fairness and human goodness (I do), consider learning respectfully how people in different circumstances understand their own lives so that you can be more effective in communicating with them. That will make you more effective at working online. .. read more..
Mobile 2.0 Tagcloud at mTrends - mobile media lifestyle trends - m-trends.org
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Interesting visual representation of the concepts in the mobile 2.0 space. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: mobile , toshare .. read more..
GeoSpatial Semantic Web Blog
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
This looks fascinating! Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , tosub , geo , geospatial , semantic web , APIs .. read more..
Extracting Data From Otherwise Unused Applications: The Case of the Facebook Bir..
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I hardly ever log in to Facebook but each time I do, I find that there are friends whose birthdays I'm glad to find out about. In order not to miss them, I've extracted that information from my Facebook account in to an RSS feed that I can subscribe to elsewhere. I used the wonderful tool Dapper.net to do it. Below are screenshots demonstrating how to do the same thing yourself. Of course this is just one example of a general principle. I hope you can imagine all kinds of other applications that you would like to get limited access to without visiting them, but from inside your RSS reader. You have a Facebook (or other) account that you never log in to. But it does a remarkable job of notifying you when it's someone's birthday! Dapper Will Extract The Data in That Field For You Select the "create a new Dapp" link. I love Dapper. Just Enter The URL of the Page You Want to Extract From Copy and paste in the URL, select RSS feed, then click the "next step" button. Go Ahead and Log In Through Dapper Then click on the login button on Facebook, or whatever app you want to enable access to. Voila, You Are Logged In. Now click the "add to basket" button and then "next step". You will be warned that Dapper works best with more than one URL in the basket, but you can just say that's ok and move on with your life. Now click to define the field you want to extract data from. 1. I clicked on my friends' names whose birthdays are today. 2. You can see in the preview field below that Dapper properly understood which field I was trying to define and didn't capture any extra data. 3. Save that field. Now tell Dapper what that field you selected is and where in an RSS feed you want it to live. In some cases you might make this the item text, but in this case the title is what we're looking for. If you wanted to define another field, you will be given that opportunity once you save this one - but in this case we'll just say "next step." Preview that baby... Looks good! Click "next step." Now you've got some fields to fill out... I probably didn't need to mark this as private, but I did. Then hit save. Now tell Dapper what your username and password are so it can login for you. Hit "fix dates" if there's no date field already determined (this is a mystery but it works) . Finally, copy and paste that orange RSS link into your favorite feed reader! It may need to be one that supports authentication (log in) and in those cases if it's high enough priority these days I add it to Netvibes.com .. read more..
500 Friendfeed Rooms
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A list of 500 "rooms" in FriendFeed.com, some of them very active sharing spaces regarding particular topics. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: FriendFeed , rooms , lists , toshare .. read more..
Etsy :: The Storque :: Search: getting started in v
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Bre is doing a great series for Etsy on how to get started in producing video for the web. Looks very useful and interesting. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: video , tutorials , toshare .. read more..
Voices.com Launches An API for Voice Talent
Monday, June 30, 2008
Fascinating niche case for an API - read write access to voice over talent database, which btw is stored on S3. An API on an API! Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: APIs , toshare .. read more..
Screen Shots: How I Use RSS to Track Thousands of News Sources Easily
Saturday, June 28, 2008
The most common topic I give training presentations on is the use of RSS for tracking issues important to various organizations. This has been the heart of what I've focused on since I first got involved in this industry, that hasn't changed. My methodology has changed a lot over the years. It's a happy day when I can add something new to my personal RSS strategy, and thus to the strategy I share with others. Below is a series of screen shots illustrating the current state of my basic RSS workflow. There are lots of little details, feed discovery and creation techniques and other advanced steps that can be taken - but I'm often asked about the basics. So here they are. I hope you find this useful and feel free to pass it along to a friend. I'll do my best to answer any questions in comments below. If you'd like a personalized research system like this set up and populated with the most useful feeds for your work, let me know. I'm also working with some other people on a giant post coming soon describing all the things I know how to do with a pile of RSS feeds - I have a consulting project that's totally open ended so I thought I'd make a list. Note that I made this post almost entirely with the application ScreenSteps . It was easy and fun, I wanted to try it and it didn't take too long for me to think of a good topic to try it on. Netvibes.com I put a link to Netvibes in my browser toolbar and click it about once an hour. These are high priority feeds that I want to keep an eye on throughout the day. They include things like 1.) Competitors 2.) Manually created feeds for special circomstances and 3.) Groups of feeds spliced together. Netvibes also has a very good mobile version, m.netvibes.com, so I can check these same feeds on my phone. Google Reader Once or twice a day I load up my Google Reader app, which I set up as a standalone "single app browser" using FluidApp.com. I try to always read every new item in my "vendors" folder and then I scan what I can from everything else. I oversubscribe, prioritize, read what I can and believe that subscription means there is some chance I'll see things - not subscribing means there is dramatically less opportunity for me to see the news in a particular feed. GMail Web Clips I've loaded 5 or 10 feeds into the Gmail "web clips" feature so I can increase the chance that I might see some of the items that come through those feeds. Snackr.net For the same reason, I also put the feeds in my Netvibes page into Snackr.net - an Adobe AIR based RSS ticker. It runs at the bottom of my page throughout the day, giving me something to scan while pages load, etc. I regularly find important news stories here. Zaptxt The highest priority feeds are run through an RSS to IM/SMS alert system. I use Zaptxt and it gets me lots of stories - before other people get to them. No matter what field you work in, I believe that being among the first to know about key information can provide a huge competitive advantage. There are many services that provide this kind of funtionality - you should give some thought to what you would benefit from getting this kind of notification about. That's how it goes! There are of course all kinds of ways to drill down - but this is the big picture. It's a whole lot of fun to build these kinds of workflows for people working in particular niches. Once that's done there are any number of other advanced things you can do with the information you're consuming like this. (See this case study, for example, or this one.) Thanks for stopping by, if you've got tips on how you process large amounts of information online I'm sure readers here and I would love to know what they are! .. read more..
OAuth Support at SmugMug
Friday, June 27, 2008
Score one more win for oAuth! The list of supporting sites is small - but this is a good one to ad to it! Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oAuth , toshare , photos , APIs .. read more..
NICAR
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting - hot damn! I can't wait to dig into this organization! Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , toread , tosub , reporting , media .. read more..
Boy Genius Report
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A good blog about mobile, new to me but Corvida from SheGeeks.net recommends it. Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: tosub , toshare , mobile , blogs .. read more..
Open Symbian: good news for content providers - news - www.mobile-ent.biz
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Less fragmentation going forward, but it'll take two years for the 'Open Symbian' to mature. Content providers have reacted positively to news that No... Saved By: Marshall Kirkpatrick | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: toshare , mobile , symbian .. read more..
Thoughts on How to Be a New Media Consultant
Monday, June 9, 2008
I just got a very nice email from someone who found my blog and is interested in moving into consulting as well. I sent them the following thoughts that I think could be of interest to more people than just that one aspiring consultant. The keys in my mind to being a good and employed new media consultant are: 1. Learn how to do cool new things and blog (well) about them. 2. Let people know that you are a consultant. 3. Make sure you deliver clear value to clients that extends beyond your time with them. Search engine optimization and pageviews are the most common things that consultants try to deliver to clients, but I prefer aiming for education, excitement, comfort with new tools and a sense that they can now be full fledged actors in the social media market themselves. My past clients are now happily reading OPML files I built for them, they see the value of and aren't afraid of Twitter and they have more skills to use in their own work than they did before we worked together. (They are also doing more complicated things like this , in some cases.) I always aim to over-deliver and I don't worry about giving clients almost everything I know - this market is too new and too big to worry about teaching yourself out of a job. 4. Stay visible by consistently sharing valuable information with other people. I don't do that so much on my personal blog these days, but I do it on Twitter, on ReadWriteWeb.com and in face to face conversations. That's what's worked well for me so far. Do other consultants reading here have other high-level points that they think are important to communicate? I didn't mention it in that conversation - but I do provide training and advising to other consultants sometimes. (As well as working on projects with clients together.) If you're a consultant interested in some training on the particular things that I'm good at teaching - feel free to drop me a line. One of my fantasies for awhile has been to hire other consultants for an hour of their training in whatever they do best. I think it would be awesome to do that once a month. Maybe a trade would be good. Oh, the possibilities are nearly endless. It's an exciting time to be learning about the internet. .. read more..
Twitter for Nonprofits
Monday, June 9, 2008
I'm participating as a guide in an online event tomorrow where we'll discuss how nonprofit organizations can rock Twitter . Hosted by the great nonprofit technology assistance project TechSoup , the event will go on through an asynchronous but scheduled day of forum postings. I'll be joined by Michaela Hackner, Director of Online Strategy at the very cool looking organization World Learning (check them out, looks great!). What will be discussing? Much of the discussion will concern things that came up in a webinar that Michaela Hackner lead this afternoon (sorry I'm late blogging about this!) and I'm sure there will be a lot of other general questions. Specifics that I'll want to bring into the discussion will include: *Using Twitter for news, opinion and information gathering. *Using Twitter for technical help. *Using Twitter to publicize your events and other work. *Finding the best people to follow on Twitter. *Building your network and status on Twitter. A couple of relevant links that participants may appreciate: Twitter is Paying My Rent Using Social Media In Realtime for Crowdsourced Research How We Use Twitter for Journalism Fundraising on Twitter - Just one of many Beth Kanter posts on the topic Feel free to share more links in comments to posts around the web that you'd advise nonprofit participants to check out. .. read more..
Top Spots in Organic & Paid Search = Branding
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Great write up of an interesting study on the perceptual impact of good search placement. This one's a keeper. .. read more..
A hunger for books | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Monday, December 10, 2007
Dorris Lessing's Nobel acceptance speech where she brings up critiques of the web's cultural impacts, among other things. An important read. .. read more..
The significance of Google's Android
Friday, December 7, 2007
Looks like a good article on Android, 33 comments, consultancy blog. Marked toread. .. read more..
Massive Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Video Recap
Friday, December 7, 2007
Can't wait to spend some time with this one. .. read more..
Thoughts on Seth Godin's keynote at SES [SearchEngineWatch]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Seth Godin is probably someone I should read a lot more of. He's a marketer, but interesting. .. read more..
Media Bullseye
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Interesting new site for PR and marketing news regarding social media. Chris Brogan an early contributor. .. read more..
The Identity Corner " The problem(s) with OpenID
Monday, December 3, 2007
A long collection of links to critiques of OpenID. Looks real good. .. read more..
AOL, Netflix and the end of open access to research data | Surveillance State - ..
Friday, November 30, 2007
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Nick Carr on Google as Anomaly
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Paul Miller excerpts and links to what's being talked about as one of Nick Carr's most interesting writings in a long time. That's saying a lot, because the iconoclast Carr is very, very smart. .. read more..
Who is afraid of the GGG?
Monday, November 26, 2007
Giant Global Graph? This ZDNet post is a great overview of the recent discussion kicked off by Tim Berners Lee. .. read more..
Help needed: A review of Google-funded 23andMe
Friday, November 23, 2007
Google-backed genetics startup; this blog seeks donations to pay for the $1k fee for the product. Sounds like a great idea to me, I'm real curious about this company. .. read more..
Teaching Online Journalism " Connecting people to people
Thursday, November 22, 2007
A good post about the value of identity on websites. Quotes my post about social network functionality but a plainly valuable collection of thoughts regardless. .. read more..
dotBen on dataportability.org
Thursday, November 22, 2007
A video about a site I am itching to write up. You can learn about it here before I do, gotta find the time. Lucky you. .. read more..
No Man's Blog - Facebook Applications Trends Report #1
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Interesting looking numbers. .. read more..
1. Individual videos I've found to share
Friday, July 6, 2007
1. Individual videos I've found to share by marshallkirkpatrick ( watch show ) 1. Video: Dramatic Chipmunk (marshallkirkpatrick) 2. Video: google final (beth) 3. Video: Video: RSS in Plain English (marshallkirkpatrick) .. read more..
