Blogging/Podcasting

Graco blog is fantastic

As a (relatively) new parent, the Graco brand certainly has made a footprint in our household. Through a new Twitter friend, I found out about the new(ish) Graco blog. As a corporate blog, this is one of the best I’ve seen yet. That’s pretty impressive considering the role the Graco Legal Department probably played in [...]

ASK: My tips for a great presentation

(This is part of Ask the Community Guy, an ongoing series of questions posed by readers for Jake, the Community Guy)
In the last few years I’ve presented to more audiences than I can remember. Literally. I try to refine my presentations every time I give one, and feel like I’ve gotten pretty decent. I still [...]

Join me Friday for a Community Tips Webcast

On Friday I will be joining fellow blogger and podcast, Stuart Crawford for a webinar taking about my favorite subject: "Everybody goes home happy".
Everyone Goes Home Happy - Top Tips To Create An Awesome Online CommunityOnline communities are made up of several key components and usually rest on the shoulders of one key [...]

Blog Birthday Today!

Three years ago today I posted the first blog post on CommunityGuy.com.

I’m taking a break from a client on-site session, which is good. Nobody likes a blubbering blogger talking about how proud he is of being part of a mini-revolution…

Big news on the CommunityGuy.com front

After watching the "Viral Garden Top 25 Marketing Blogs" list for some time now, I feel lucky to see that this very blog has made the list… and at #18! To see the company I’m in makes me a bit misty. Seriously, Creating Passionate Users, Logic+Emotion, Brand Autopsy… these folks are the real deal and [...]

Clue Unit #15: Interview with Deb Schultz on Transparency

To round out our month theme of transparency, the Clue Unit team interviewed Deb Schultz. Deb is a consultant and speaker who describes herself as an evangelist and rabble-rouser in the relationship economy. She is the former Marketing Director of Six Apart, makers of blogging platforms Movable Type, Typepad, Vox and Live Journal.

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Clue Unit #14: Non-traditional Discussion of Transparency

Continuing our May theme of Transparency, Clue Unit episode 14 has been released!

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Episode 14, about 30 minutes.
Today’s Topic: Non-traditional Discussion of Transparency

    Spammer Contacts Jake  
    Flickr Censors User  
    Engadget Drops Apple’s Stock Price [...]

Comments have returned

Apparently I really have won the war. After only 48 hours of having comments turned off, I got the following message in my inbox:
Hello
About thishttp://www.communityguy.com/index.cfm/id/Lost_the_battle_won_t_lose_th
We are remove your domain from our spambase. You can switch commentson. Our guys will not spam you anymore.
Sorry for inconvenience
Sincerely yours, [removed Russian name]
I have to say that I’m impressed. [...]

Lost the battle, won’t lose the war

OK, fine. I’m throwing in the towel, at least temporarily. The manual spammers have won this battle, hopefully they won’t win the war too.
In the last week, I’ve gotten about 100 manual comment spam posts. These are blog comments that are posted by a real person, probably overseas working for a tiny amount of money, [...]

Clue Unit Podcast: Transparency and Communities

Hot on the heels of the Digg.com craziness this week, we launch a new Clue Unit podcast. This episode is the first in a new format we’re trying out. Basically, we’re creating a monthly theme, and will do 2 traditional episodes loosely based on that theme. Additionally, we’ll do an interview episode each month, and [...]