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Rapid Fire - Thursday, May 15

YouTube - LEGO Creator building tip 2
Cool LEGO Company produced video about building cornered doors. Nice work.
Tags: video, lego, dailylinks
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More Friday Fun Finds: LEGO Creations

One of my favorite blogs on the ‘net is Brothers-Brick, which collects and shares LEGO news and fan creations. They always find the coolest stuff, but when I got home from Community 2.0 last night I was looking at the backlog in my feed reader and they so many cool things posted, I [...]


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Rapid Fire - Thursday, May 15

The Greatest Graduation Photo Ever - One Mans Blog
I love great photos, and this one is fantastic. Talk about timing!
Tags: photography, dailylinks
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Socio-Economic changes in internet adoption

ClickZ reports that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has released some new information about broadband adoption.

Factors such as education, income, age, gender, and place of access have typically influenced Internet usage and broadband access worldwide. A report on how broadband access is changing households, released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, [...]


The realities of customer engagement (hint: it’s not all positives)

The other day I jumped into a conversation thread on the SWOM forum and caught this bit of genius from “Wandering Dave Rhee”:

As a former Dell competitor (at the time when they introduced their initiative last year), I can say that we closely looked at the pros and cons of creating [...]


Staying motivated about the (seemingly) mundane

In 1994 I discovered the Web and was training college faculty members to use it, despite their interest only through mandate. In 1996 I was convincing clients to build Web sites. In 2000 I was building community activities for a major global brand. Somewhere along the way I discovered that I thoroughly enjoy the challenge [...]


OCRN: Community Communication

In the last few weeks, I’ve posted several bits of content to the OCRN around the theme of “community focused communication”. The theme is wrapping up and I’m moving on to this month’s theme (more on this soon). Here’s a recap of what was posted.

Case Study: Comics in Community Communication
Community Netiquette: How to Avoid Stepping [...]


Help Needed: Share your story about the power of online community

On a recent trip through the Dayton airport book store, I came across a book that sparked an idea that I’m really excited about.
As you all know, I’m a bit of an online community buff. I truly believe in the power of online communities to bring together people and place for amazing results. Over the [...]


Rapid Fire - Sunday, May 11

Back-Up Your Mac, Effortlessly - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog
David Pogue reviews Apple’s Time Capsule device. I’ve never been so excited about data backup!
Tags: apple, gadgets, dailylinks
Taco Bell - Direct Daniella
Taco Bell has a very interesting Flash application out that runs video while allow you to “snap photographs” of [...]