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Trust your community

April 24, 2010

Not everything needs to or should be recorded. Not everything great needs to be put on YouTube, sent to 12seconds or recorded at all. Jose Gonzalez and Bill Binder taught me that today. Once you step away from what’s happening to record it, you lose a sense of what is happening. You’re no longer in [...]

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Quid Pro Quo? Um, no.

April 13, 2010

I feel ridiculous. And I hate that I feel so. Quid pro quo when it comes to followers/fans doesn’t work. It retards the system and makes the people we’re connected to online feel cheap. Why in the hell do I care? Do YOU care? Does the matter in which we become well known matter online? [...]

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Twitter’s swan song

March 15, 2010

Say it jumped the shark, say it plateaued, say it’s winding down, but the party of knowledge and sharing that used to be Twitter is no more. I hate to say this and argued with him about it at the time, but Carlos Miceli is right. Twitter used to be about people sharing stories, getting [...]

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Perception is…reality?

March 3, 2010

Snap judgments are awesome. Also, sometimes wrong. It’s no secret we rush to judgment on nearly anything we experience, especially online. For some reason we’ve come to believe the written word as truth, or even worse, fact, when we probably shouldn’t trust anything we read. Especially on Twitter, which seems to be part rumor mill, [...]

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28 Days Later

February 28, 2010

What began as one man’s quest turned into a group effort. 28 days ago, Scott Bishop made a pledge to his blog readers to post once a day for the entire month of February. At the end, he planned to post results based on a few goals he’d set out at the beginning of the [...]

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Five things every event must have

February 1, 2010

Image by tdhurst via Flickr There are far too many bad events out there. From events about Twitter to marketing events that seem cloned, it’s tough to stand out and be useful. Here are five things every successful event must do: 1. Make the event about the participants, not the speakers or the organizer. -SOUNDS [...]

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This is not the community you’re looking for

January 19, 2010

We all can’t be leaders. We all can’t succeed at once. We all can’t avoid failure. And we’re starting to lose faith. Perhaps it’s time for us to adjust our expectations. For many (okay me), Ignite was meant to be a launching pad. We get the best and the brightest to present their passions and [...]

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When community loses its luster

January 11, 2010

Image via Wikipedia The construction of any community follows any good movie plot line. We build up anticipation ((Woohoo, Twitter!)), get some exposition ((Meetups)), have some great action sequences ((Cool events like PodCamps, Ignites and TEDx)), plateau a bit ((Planning periods between events)), climax ((Get recognized by the mainstream)) and then gradually falls apart. If [...]

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Kabuki responds to customer tweet during Happy Hour

August 5, 2009

Had this sent to me by Julia72 last night. Great story of a restaurant using social media monitoring appropriately, responding directly to customers needs and earning some great props in the process. Her words are in italics. I was in a sushi place tonight for happy hour waiting for some friends to show up. I [...]

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I get by with a little help from my friends

July 23, 2009

I’m not a marketer. I don’t know SEO (well, kinda). I don’t have much PR experience. I can’t design you anything, nor can I building anything without directions. I’m a conversationalist. Yes, I know exactly how cheesy that sounds, but it’s true. I earn my living, and satiate my desire to learn, by talking to [...]

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