December 31, 2008 33 Comments

Guest Post – Podcasting Isn’t Dead at All

Daniel Steinberg The following is a guest post from Daniel Steinberg, a veteran podcaster, and a personal hero of mine. Daniel’s one of the first “big names” I ever reached out to on the web, and he was gracious, friendly, and patient with me (I was critiquing his show). His opinion on podcasting should be heeded much more than mine.

Podcasting Isn’t Dead At All

Chris Brogan writes that Podcasting as we all thought it might be in 2006 is gone. 2006 was the year that I first met Chris. He emailed me with some suggestions for the Distributing The Future podcast I was producing for O’Reilly.

They were good suggestions and I took them.…

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December 27, 2008 111 Comments

Guest Post – What Artists Can Teach Everyone About Social Media

Earthly Delights, by Nasco Pelev The following is a guest post from Amrita Chandra, one of the great people I met in 2008 at PodCamp Boston 3.

What Artists Can Teach Everyone About Social Media

People tend to look to leaders in the technology or business world to learn how to use Social Media. But from my experience, it is artists who are the best teachers of all. Some of the things we can all learn from them:

Find inspiration outside your domain. – Talk to an artist and they will often tell you they found inspiration in a book or political event or meaningful place. Artists take ideas from everywhere to foster collaboration and innovation in their own practice.…

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December 12, 2008 85 Comments

Guest Post- Twitter Features I’d Pay For

written by Samir Balwani

Let’s consider a question that just won’t die, “How will Twitter make money?“. They’ve created a great product that’s been talked about on CNN and is starting to gain mainstream appeal. But with all the success there still exists a huge obstacle, “How do they turn a profit?”.

We’re finally hearing rumors of a place to monetize Twitter. CNET reported that Twitter CEO Evan Williams is considering a paid enterprise model.

There are a lot of possibilities for “commercial” accounts, as Williams put it.

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December 7, 2008 212 Comments

Guest Post – Generation Y in the Workplace Explained

Y This is a guest post by Teresa Wu

As Gen Y enters the professional world, we bring a whole new set of rules. We’re often criticized for our restless job-jumping or our sense of entitlement. The truth is, we might play the game differently, but that doesn’t mean we’re not every bit as bright, innovative, and hardworking. Here’s why.


We crave personal development

We’re a generation that spends our days on the internet. Unlike time spent front of the television, much of our spent online makes us learn valuable information and engage in meaningful conversation. As a result, we’re always learning more about our specific interests and picking up new skills.…

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December 5, 2008 82 Comments

Guest Post- The Post-Geekdominant Twitterverse

Shaq by Dr. Mark Drapeau

Shaquille O’Neal’s embrace of Twitter as a way to connect with his fans got me thinking – what would the Twitterverse be like if it were not dominated by geeks? People who aren’t geeks, geek wannabes, or geek fans more than likely haven’t heard of Twitter. But at some point that will change. The conversational technology and vision of Twitter has created a simple, logical, and useful way for people and their ideas to connect. Whether it is Twitter per se, or a competing or successor service, at some point the Twitterverse will be dominated by non-geeks.…

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November 7, 2008 24 Comments

Guest Post- Bears Buffalo and Broadband

NOT BY ME ShelliJohnson-lowresThis comes from Shelli Johnson from YellowstonePark.com. She is the founder of the Yellowstone Journal Corporation, and I found this story interesting for understanding how places can speak. See what you think. Oh, she had 3 titles for this piece.

From Out of the Woods, Into the World

Or

Bears, Buffalo and Broadband

Or

Is That a Voice in the Wilderness?

By Shelli Johnson

Yellowstone Journal Corporation, an independent business, reaches 4 million people every year who are considering or planning a vacation to the world’s oldest national park, Yellowstone.
But it wasn’t always this way.…

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October 31, 2008 131 Comments

Guest Post- How to Keep Your Conversations From Turning Into Broadcasts

Jacob Morgan brings us today’s post. It’s a good one, too!

How to Keep Your Conversations From Turning Into Broadcasts

A conversation is a dialogue that occurs between two or more people, it involves the continuous flow of information from party A to party B and vice versa.  As a company executive, leader, blogger, etc. it is part of your responsibility to make sure that these conversations don’t turn into broadcasts.  What do I mean by broadcasts?

If you continuously push out content on twitter or on your blog (or other platform) while ignoring the comments and emails that you receive from your users or customers then you are not having a conversation, you are broadcasting a message.…

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October 28, 2008 132 Comments

Guest Post- Twitter- To Converse or to Broadcast-THAT is the Question

Keith BurtisThe following is a guest post from Mr. Keith Burtis, woodworker, media maker, and PodCamp veteran.

Do you Blurt messages on twitter? Do you look at Twitter as your personal soapbox to spew forth your marketing and advertising messages? If so and I see you in my twitter stream, you will quickly find yourself in the trash bin right next to the other spammers, blurters, product pushers and shouters. My name is Keith Burtis, I am a woodturner and artist from just outside the Buffalo NY area. I’m also a web 2.0 enthusiast blogger, podcaster and twitter user. I am not what you would call a traditional marketer, or brand specialist but like many others in business I am creating an online presence that requires both branding and marketing.…

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October 25, 2008 27 Comments

Guest Post- Homework for the Perfect Startup

Andrew Hyde The following is a guest post from Andrew Hyde, founder of Startup Weekend and all around clever thinker. If you ever see this guy at a conference, make a point of introducing yourself. He’s all that and a bag of chips.

Homework for the Perfect Startup

I sometimes refer to a great team with a strong idea as the Perfect Startup. Somewhat like the perfect storm, quite a few things have to come together. So if you are thinking about a startup in the next few years, here is some simple homework to create that perfect storm.

  1. Get Out of Debt

    Any debt is bad, and will make it harder on you. Michael Sitarzewski wrote some practical tips that worked for him.

    2. …

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October 24, 2008 54 Comments

Guest Post- Learning To Become a Great Public Speaker by Picking Up Women

Dean Hunt The following is a guest post from Dean Hunt. What leads me to putting up this post is two-fold. One, Dean is a very energetic and determined man. He has goals, and he intends to meet them. Two, Dean shares his experience of drawing similarities between learning how to be a “pick up artist” and how that relates to speaking. Why that’s interesting is that I saw the entire first season of the VH-1 show, The Pick-Up Artist, and thought there were actually some communications lessons hidden in their less-than-savory intentions. Human nature is what it is. The TV show chose to apply it in ways I wouldn’t, but the information wasn’t inaccurate.…

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