Inspired by Ryan’s post I have been investing more time into Twitter (and am aiming to invest more still). Part of it has been really setting aside fears to try. That is, just because you can follow anyone’s conversation doesn’t mean you’re welcome to join in. Conversely, it doesn’t mean you’re not welcome to join [...]
There are so many companies now that are new a “communication platform” banking off the (rather fluke) success of Twitter. Twitter is the 140 character text posts. Seesmic is going for the short length video responses. Utterz is trying to get the short-length sound bite. All are aiming at it in the similar fashion to [...]
(Big thanks to Allie for letting me use her awesome photo!) I read a very interesting differentiation recently on Traditional Marketing versus Social Media Marketing by Chris Borgan. In his post, Chris makes an interesting separation describing social media as the tools and marketing as the discipline. Chris goes further to state (with a pretty [...]
Okay, so when I haven’t been developing the niche user generated content site, I’ve been thinking almost obsessively about life streaming and micro-blogging. Really, ReadWriteWeb’s interview with David Karp on version 3 of Tumblr is what brought me back around to think about it more. While I agree Twitter and Tumblr are different services entirely, [...]
I hope everyone had a happy Halloween yesterday! I just woke up after spending a long night being dressed as a pirate (pictures to come). It was quite enjoyable. Many didn’t recognize me, which lead to a lot of staring and attention. Sure, it was like buying attention, but who the hell cares?! Advertisers do [...]