Archive for December, 2006

5 minute question

In the first of what will hopefully become an ongoing series, I’d like to pose a question:
If you had 5 minutes with an inquisitive marketing manager, what would you want to make sure they learned about working with fans/community?
Anything goes, and if you’d like to participate feel free to email me (jake at communityguy dot [...]

DSLR Summit Idea!

The incredibly talented Thomas Hawk has proposed doing a DSLR photography summit in San Francisco. Even if you’re not in SF, this is the kind of event that would be worth a trip. If you like the idea, pop over and leave a comment to help Thomas gauge interest.

Need your feedback

For a while now I’ve been using the del.icio.us function that automatically uploads links to this blog based on things I’ve posted recently to del.icio.us.
Is this interesting to you? Would you rather me stick to only real blog entries, even if there may be several days (or let’s be honest, a week) between them?
Give me [...]

links for 2006-12-21

ChangingThePresent
Make your presents count this year. Find meaningful, help the world type presents with this site.
(tags: gifts)

Nog Parlor
My friends at ClickHere have put together a fun Christmas-related site. If you thought you knew nog, you were wrong. Find out how wrong at this site.
(tags: christmas)

Bloggers are not remora fish

Not to belabor a much written about topic, but I had to respond to the recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about blogs, blogging, and bloggers called: "The Blog Mob: Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."
Before I share my thoughts, I’d like to clarify something on behalf of the author [...]

Promoting the Z-listers

I love this idea! People around the web have been sharing their "Z list" favorites, as a way to balance out the Technorati "A list". The problem with Technorati’s list has always been that the strong always get stronger, while the little guy stays unknown. So here’s to helping the little guy.
This effort has now [...]

Community Information From Wikipedia

I’ve been doing some digging around Wikipedia lately as I’ve been reading up on traditional sociology. I have collected a few interesting links and thought I’d share for anyone interested.

Community Development
Community Marketing
Sense of Community
Community Portal

I’m sure there’s even more I didn’t find, but there you go.

Adobe fails the customer service test. Miserably.

Wow.
That’s the only word I can use to describe the Adobe customer service experience I just had. And not in a good way. So here’s the recap:
I use an Intel-based MacBook Pro for work. I need to buy Photoshop CS2 to do some of my graphics tasks. I’ve hesitated to spend $700+ dollars on [...]

Jake joins the AMA

Watch out world, Jake is now legit. Well, at least more legit. That’s right, I’m now a certified member of the American Marketing Association (AMA).
They have a pretty impressive organization, and I’m proud to be a member!

WOMMA Interview with CoBRANDiT

At the recent WOMMA Summit, Owen from CoBRANDiT interviewed me about community stuff. Other than an unflattering camera angle, I’m pretty impressed with the overall product Owen (and team)  knocked out. Click the image to check it out.