A couple of big scores over the weekend as I got invitations to the Brightkite “private beta” as well as Jaiku. It seems like some of the sites are using Groucho Mark’s logic (ie “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members”) to get you to sign up. [...]
Last night I was busy hanging out with the cool kids at the GeekNorth Tweetup at Bukowski’s in Inman Sq. It was nice to meet @thinkjose, @technicalpickles and @pistachio (even though I got a tweet as @thingyslice and my colleagues didn’t believe I actually attended the event). It was interesting to learn [...]
1. Get a shiny new “persona”. Using the name your parents gave you is boring. Why be Frank when you could be something hipper like Days.fm or Tangyslice. Check out the Internet Anagam Generator where there is an endless supply of hip sounding yet meaningless names at your disposal.
2. Join Twitter and [...]
A colleague passed me this article about how organizations are changing from “push” to “pull” oriented approaches to deal with the 21st century challenges.
Progress: 16 sites. Man, this is a slow process. At least my cat is now a social media star now too.
Recent nominations from friends:
Dogster: For the love of the dog. I do like dogs but I have a house full of kids right now. We dog sit for my neighbor’s dog sometimes. [...]
Progress: 13 sites down, 87 to go
Here’s what I have signed up for so far:
Sites I really use:
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter
Hellotxt
Netvibes
Flickr
Sites that nag me because people I know use them:
Plaxo
Digg
Others I have signed up for but haven’t done much with:
Myspace
Pownce
Technorati
Plurk
Hi5
Requested private betas but I guess I’m not good enough for them:
Jaiku
brightkite
Pending suggestions form friends:
Bebo
Virb
Dogster
Cork’d
Trig
Catster
It is getting late so [...]
There is a social media site for virtually anything you can imagine. After a recent conversation with limeduck about staking claim to your digital brand, I decided to test his premise Morgan Spurlock style. For the next 30 days, I will explore the impact of living the social media dream.
Here are my rules [...]
Alright, I have a confession to make. I recently traded an online poker hobby (an addiction according to my wife) for a quest for the perfect social media experience. This is my story.
My first “taste” of social media started innocently enough about seven years ago when I signed up for Plaxo. You remember Plaxo [...]
“The Final Pitch” can be the most entertaining and frustrating part of the selection process. We started with goals of understanding the strategic strengths of the principals and quality of the proposed team for our account. Both Limeduck and I have experienced the classic agency “bait and switch” (ie the killer pitch from [...]
Having spent the better part of Sunday traveling and looking for ways to kill time that dreadful “two hours before an international flight”, I came across this interesting article on Mashable.
Many are obvious but all are great time killers.
My Status from Twitter
