Archive for January, 2008
Rapid Fire - Saturday, January 26
Photo clues lead to camera’s owner - Yahoo! News
Very cool story of someone finding a camera in a NYC cab and working their tail off to get it back to the rightful owner.
Tags: community, doingitright, dailylinks
pageaddict :: Firefox Add-ons
“PageAddict is a Firefox extension that will help you monitor your Internet addiction. Once you install it, [...]
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 [...]
ASK: How do I become a Community Manager? (Working Pro)
(This is part of Ask the Community Guy, an ongoing series of questions posed by readers for Jake, the Community Guy)
Question: via yndygo: “How do I become a Community Manager? Honestly, there are many of us ‘not so young’ folk who are completely enamoured of the Social Media and Online Community development, but without the [...]
Campaign ‘08… it’s socialized, baby!
Since my dust up a few weeks back, I’ve really been thinking a lot about the role of the Web and social media in the current presidential election. Certainly I’d love to see a better, deeper personal connection between the candidates and voters via social media, but I’m not sure how realistic that is. When [...]
Rapid Fire - Monday, January 21
A Macumentary | BFG Blog
Coming soon - a documentary about the power of Apple and a look at the cultishness of their community base!
Tags: apple, technology, documentary, dailylinks
AT&T- News Room
Interesting… AT&T News Room has elements of a Social Media Press Release.
Tags: socialmedia, pr, web2.0, dailylinks
Space Travel: Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceships That’ll Take Passengers [...]
Community management’s place in an organization
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about where community management should fit into an organization. There a lot of complex, nuanced answers to that question, no doubt. In my opinion, there’s a very simple answer:
Which group/team can provide a community manager the following:
A salary and a small operating budget
Enough air cover to do a [...]
Perhaps this is why advertising sucks?
I was reading the latest issue of FastCompany (not one of their finest issues, by the way) and was intrigued by the article “A mad man gets his head together“. I was surprised at one of the sidebars in the article. I never knew that the Publicis Groupe owns the following firms:
Publicis
Leo Burnett
Starcom Mediavest
Digitas
Zenith-Optimedia
Saatchi & [...]
Rapid Fire - Monday, January 21
south by southwest festivals + conferences
Even more great speakers have been added to the SXSWi line up. Come on March!
Tags: sxsw, events, presentations, dailylinks
PVP Makes Me Sad
A critique site for the PVPonline.com webcomic.
Tags: webcomic
A Macumentary | BFG Blog
Coming soon - a documentary about the power of Apple and a look at the cultishness of their [...]
Bad PR vs. Legal Compliance
Andy asks Ty, Inc., makers of the Beanie Babies line whether they are “evil, selfish, or stupid?” I’m wondering if it’s not all three.
CHICAGO (AP) — A popular toy maker is refusing to pull a lead-tainted doll from store shelves across Illinois, challenging a state law governing lead content in toys, the state says.
Ty Inc., [...]
The value of simple solutions and human hands
Xeni Jardin shares her experiences trying to figure out how to handle the influx of stupidity that Boing Boing began to get through their comments.
Finally, this year, we resurrected comments on the blog, with the one thing that did feel natural. Human hands.
We hired a community manager, and equipped our comments system [...]
