Archive for February, 2005

What is community?

What is "community"? As a community development professional, this is a question that comes up often. I often have conversations with colleagues, industry friends, and other business people about what this means.
People often think that blogs, forums, wikis, and other tools are community. In actuality, those tools are just that - tools. They can [...]

Speaking at WOMMA Summit

I submitted an application to be a speaker at the Word Of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Summit today, and lucked out! Apparently, one of the panels had a member drop out… who also did the same kind of work as me. Great luck on my part, as I was an easy replacement.
So at the [...]

Blog Business Book Tour

Todd over at apennyfor.com invited me to participate in the Blog Business Book Tour. Basically the BBBT is a way to help authors and blogs hook up to help promote and discuss new books.
The book I’m reviewing is Naked in the Boardroom by Robin Wolander. I got the book the mail today and I’m going [...]

Too much transparency?

I’m about to say something that’s going to get me kicked out of the “Cool Web Kid’s Club”…. sometimes too much transparency is a bad thing.
As more and more companies, authors, and employees share information about their companies or projects, I have to wonder if this is always a good thing. Certainly transparency is [...]

Recently Discovered

I’ve recently discovered BlogPulse, brought to us by Intelliseek. What better way to prove the Intelliseek functionality??

BlogPulseBlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs and a portal into the blogosphere

Does blogging work?

Does blogging work? You tell me…

The new Super Bowl?

Are the Oscars the new Super Bowl when it comes to commercials? I’m watching the Academy Awards as I type this, and have been pleasantly surprised at how good some of the commercials are. About half of them are the standard idiotic trash that we watch every day, but other half are pretty sharp.
Certainly not [...]

Minor Irritation

Late (mid?) last year, StoryCorps launched their project. As they put it:

StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others’ stories in sound.
We’re here to help you interview your grandmother, your uncle, the lady who’s worked at the luncheonette down the block for as long as you can remember?anyone whose [...]

Jon Stewart on Bloggers

Funny clip from Jon Stewart on bloggers and blogging!

Don’t we wish they could all be this dedicated?

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