Marketing Socially: Robyn Tippins from Converge SC on Vimeo.
FYI, the very first of my talk is cut off, but what you miss is my telling you that I started a diaper company in 1998, at age 22, and in month one, using forums to market it, we grossed ~$30k. The video picks up there.
Social [...]
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At BlogWorld Expo, I was interviewed by Network Solutions to answer a few questions that their customers might have. There are a serious of almost a dozen videos up now, with some major big names in social media, but with my ego being monstrous, I’ve only linked to the ones I’m in
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Tilly and I set up a wiki over the weekend (thanks to a HUGE load of help from Wetpaint) and the barebones of our Community Managers group is up and running now.
Community Managers Wiki
I love working with CMs because they are motivated! I sent out the invites around 11am and by 2pm, all but 3 [...]
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Andrew Wee interviewed me last week about my prior consulting work. If you are interested in learning how I was bringing in a six figure consulting income before my move to Yahoo!, you might want to listen to it.
Social Bookmarking
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Twitter Is Dangerous
Yeah right… Bloggers with their gloom and doom are more dangerous. The gist of this ‘fear twitter’ story is that people are, gasp, talking to more than one person!
Imagine this scenario: 20 people are in a confidential meeting, one of them using Twitter. This attendee broadcasts an off-hand “tweet” [...]
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I can never understand what it is that makes a large company think that they are indestructible, but apparently Google continues to believe that because they are the god of search that this will always remain the case. (Disclosure, I work for a search company that was once doing really, really well in search, [...]
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Here are the slides from my talk today at Webcom Montreal. I will follow with the video, if I can wrangle it from the presenters. If not, I have the notes saved as a pdf but I don’t have the bandwidth, literally not figuratively, to post them right now. [...]
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Posted in social networking, web 2.0 on Nov 14th, 2007
Am I crazy or did Gmail drink the Kool Aide really, really quickly? I have never seen this in my gmail account before.
I am assuming this is part of their new Inbox 2.0 strategy? Whatever, Mama likes.
Social Bookmarking
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John Hong from Zappos, as a local, was great at showing us around Vegas. I was crushed that we didn’t have time to go to the Double Down, home of the Bacon Martini, which is the url that John asked me to credit for the photos. Well he wanted me to credit another [...]
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Download As A Podcast
Over the past few years, I’ve written a number of posts that caught the attention of Digg users. Many were surprises, but a dozen or so were written specifically for Digg, mostly for clients. These successful Dugg stories or videos, etc. are what I want to discuss with you [...]
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