Community Guy – Jake McKee

links for 2006-09-20

• BlueMic :: Blue Microphones
  A podcaster’s dream: A USB, high quality, cheap microphone.
  (tags: podcast microphone)

links for 2006-09-19

• YouTube – Beer Cannon 101
  Milwaukee’s Best Light puts together a pretty cheesy campaign based on vdeo and YouTube. (More info at: http://www.milbestlight.com/cannon.aspx). Why do brand managers feel like they need to script and polish everything they do, even the “user generated”
  (tags: youtube beer marketing2.0)

Help me be a SXSW speaker

I need your help!

I’ve volunteered to put together a panel discussion at SXSW next year, and the way the panels are being chosen this year is at least partially based on community voting. Head over the panel picker, select the “Community” category and scroll down to my entry. Here’s the panel description:

Thanks!

Fortune Cookie Knowledge

Today’s lunch fortune:

“You have a reputation for being straight forward and honest.”

Hey, if the cookie says it, it must be true.

links for 2006-09-15

• rafidi photography
  (tags: photographyClass photography)
• Squeezed Melons, Daily Color Scheme – Your every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh colorschemes
  (tags: color design webdesign)
• Professor gives students the option of purchasing his lectures online
  (tags: education podcasting)
• BookCrossing – The World’s Biggest Free Book Club
  bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
  (tags: books sharing bookcrossing communityProject)
• Why marketing should make the user manuals!
  Kathy asks a brilliant question: “Why do so many companies treat potential users so much better than existing users? Think about it. The brochure is a thing of beauty, while the user manual is a thing of boredom.”
  (tags: marketing design documentation)
• The Facebook Lesson
  Ben gives a nice recap of the recent problematic launch of the newest Facebook features.
  (tags: facebook communityCommunication)

Gotta love Blingo

Seriously, how could you not like getting cool stuff for free for free for doing nearly nothing?

I just won (actually one of my connections won) a $50 Visa check card through Blingo. If you’ve not been paying attention when I’ve talked about Blingo in the past, it’s a search engine that uses the Google API to conduct searches. So it’s Google + prizes. It’s not a scam – this is prize #19 for me… I’ve won everything from movie tickets to a Sony PSP.

If you haven’t signed up, sign up now under me and we both win if you do.

Attention Community Managers…

When I was on the front lines of community interaction with LEGO, I started an invite-only, non-competing mailing list for community managers and people who put their hands on community interaction on a daily basis. The group has always remained small and low-traffic, but I’d like to grow it a bit more.

If you’re interested in joining, drop me an email (jake@biggu.com) and let me know why you want to join.

Big in Japan launches new site

After several weeks of work, the new Big in Japan web site (www.biggu.com) is live! We’ve outlined our services, reskinned the blog, and added new info about our work.

Stop by and check it out when you get a chance. We’d love to hear your feedback!

MySpace Login Broken

Remember when I mentioned that MySpace was facing a serious problem with long-term surviability? Here’s a screenshot I received after I logged in today… yikes.

Yes, that’s right, the error message says: "DisabledErrorMessage 9/13/2006"

links for 2006-09-13

• WWYGAVT – Who Would You Give a Volvo To?
  Volvo’s latest marketing effort, and an entry into a user generated content.
  (tags: usergeneratedcontent)