Tumbleweeds 1.11–1.17
Cranked up my own Tumblr stream last week; really like it as a quick tool for clipping pretty much anything for further processing. Only drawback so far: the app is slower than Steve Balboni was on the basepaths.
Anyway, I think I’ll do a once-a-week index of any Tumblr items I post that seem relevant to the roots.lab purview. Here’s the first.
- Nonprofit Salesforce.com Practitioners | Google Groups – Very active community, and a huge archive of accrued wisdom on nonprofit implementations of Salesforce. Cool-io.
- Fast Company :: building a corporate alumni network – “There’s a way to keep people working with you even after they stop working for you. Here is a five-point program on how to build a successful alumni network for your company.”
- What’s Working for Social Media Marketers? – eMarketer – “A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones.”
- Avatar Induces the ‘Life Is Elsewhere’ syndrome? – Lots of facile noise on twitter about CNN story about Avatar-goers who were so taken by the world Cameron brought to vivid life that they didn’t want to leave, to point where depression and suicidal ideation have arisen. Okay, funny ha-ha. But I know something about this kind of longing, and am interested in how it works, what conditions have to be present in a fictionalized world for it to seem vividly real enough to linger in indefinitely.
- Google’s Approach to Social in 2010 | GigaOm – “If you use Google products, the company already knows who your most important contacts are, what your core interests are, and where your default locations are. [Google engineering director] David Glazer [says that] Everything is better when it knows who I am.“ What does “social” mean to Google? “Who I am, who do I know, what do I do,” said Glazer.
- Where to look for blogs on a given topic – Tidbit from a Brogan post on blogger relations: Alltop, Google Blog Search, Twitter Search, Postrank Topics.
- How We Use Twitter at Forum One — Jim Cashel, who started the Online Community Report way back in prehistoric times (1996), describes goals and metrics for his firm’s use of twitter.
January 17, 2010 | Filed Under Link Lurve | Leave a Comment
links for 2008-06-04
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On recordon’s blog.
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Breaks the typical advocacy website into its constituent parts — different types of pages have different goals — and lists the most meaningful metrics to look at for each. Really useful!
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Digg’s button tutorial doesn’t show you what buttons look like for each set of code. Nor does it include the additional code needed to float your Digg badge to the left (or right) of your blog post text. This how-to does.
June 4, 2008 | Filed Under Link Lurve | Leave a Comment
links for 2008-05-28
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Marshall K.’s big-picture meditation on APIs, while ostensibly focused on the business logic behind whether/not to provide an open API, is good reading for anyone considering a small-pieces-loosely-joined approach to architecting web solutions.
May 28, 2008 | Filed Under Link Lurve | Leave a Comment
links for 2008-05-21
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I really like the way my fave time-tracking tool, SlimTimer, made use of this new service. Pretty great feedback mechanism, if you’ve got the cojones to really listen to your users.
May 21, 2008 | Filed Under Link Lurve | Leave a Comment
links for 2008-05-15
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After trying to track down the details on Flickr’s position on blogging other people’s photos, I finally scored: Stewart Butterfield weighs in on a debate about this very issue.
May 15, 2008 | Filed Under Link Lurve | Leave a Comment
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I'm Ian Wilker, a web strategist and project manager. I help organizations engage the social web -- the blogosphere, online social networks, content-sharing services, and other emerging media.
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