Archive for November, 2007
10 Questions: Gregg Brockway from TripIt.com
I’ve been playing with, and fascinated by the new travel site, TripIt.com for a while now. It’s helping me wrangle my large collection of travel itineraries, mostly via email (rather than mass input in a Web form). I reached out to Gregg Brockway, co-founder and president of TripIt and he was nice enough to answer [...]
Rapid Fire - Sunday, November 04
How To Make Instant Hot Ice - One Mans Blog
See, chemistry *can* be cool! (or icy, in this case)
Tags: humor, dailylinks, video, youtube
Anil Dash: Fanboys Are Stupid, But You Are Not
Being a community figure with even a somewhat large reach (although here, Anil has a big reach) requires a damn thick skin. Anil [...]
BlogWorld Expo Cometh
Things are likely to get quiet this week here on CommunityGuy.com - between the client work and a most-of-week trip to Las Vegas for BlogWorld Expo, I’ll be pretty tied up.
So who’s going to BWE? Looks like quite a few of you will be there.
And perhaps more importantly, are you dressing in pajamas for the [...]
Job Board Update: 13 Open Jobs
Fame and fortune (or at least a tasty new community job) could lie behind any one of these 13 links!
Online Community Manager, Zazengo (virtual)
Games for Change Community Manager (New York, New York)
Community Manager: SF Bay Area (Financial District, San Francisco, CA)
Community Support Manager (Needham, MA)
Social Media Marketing Intern (Little Elm, TX (Just north of Dallas))
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Rapid Fire - Saturday, November 03
Improve Your Writing With Conservation of Words - One Mans Blog
For a community person, or anyone dealing with community writing is a crucial skill, nearly an art. Here’s a great story about how effective communication can be with fewer words, not more.
Tags: writing, dailylinks
Building Blocks Cakes from Betty Crocker
Mmm…. LEGO Cake.
Tags: lego, humor, cooking, dailylinks
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To your customer, it’s one company
Having worked at and with large organizations for a long time, I’m constantly amazed at how dissociated the various departments are in a company. While the success of marketing and customer service are, for example, completely tied to each other they tend to talk very little, if at all.
To your customer, Apple is Apple, [...]
Daily Links - Thursday, November 01
Irony: MacBook Pro Is the Fastest Windows Vista Notebook
OK, so anyone STILL not convinced that Apple’s switch to Intel? “Looking for a shiny new notebook to slap your shiny new Windows Vista on that’ll run it all super snappy and buttery smooth According to PC World’s tests.”
Tags: apple, intel, dailylinks
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The new 4Ps… there’s now 5!
Sean does a great job reimagining of the traditional 4Ps of marketing. Here’s the synopsis:
People: The talkers, authors, contributors - empowerment of the individual.
Places: All the diverse venues the conversations can take place in.
Process: What collaboration (and moderation) you enable, how you entitle contributor types and how you integrate with existing systems.
Platform: [...]
37Signals: Patchy workarounds are not “solutions”
I love me some Basecamp, I really do. I also am absolutely addicted to Highrise. The team at 37Signals does great work.
But for the life of me I can’t figure out why they’ve had such a poor implementation of the overall login system. Why does every tool need a separate login? Am I the only [...]
