Connie Bensen - Comments

“hrm, i'm wondering who cared first: @comcastcares or @netsolcares?”

Wednesday at 7:34 pm - Link

Frank w/ @comcastcares was first; we liked his style! - Connie Bensen

Community Manager: Mariana Evica posted a link

Good morning! Just joined the room, still finding my way around *everything* in social media, including friendfeed. Haven't been able to devote full-time energy...

September 19 at 6:50 am - Link

Actually, my most heinous crime is my newbie-ness. I am indeed "legit". Thanks for the "welcome". This is basically my first post ever on friend-feed. The "website" is a fledgling blog, and I work for a small non-profit. I'm not even here to monetize anything. Please contact me if you'd like to discuss before assuming. This was a painful entry into your community. - Mariana Evica

Hi guys - As Community oriented people, let's work to get along. I'm going to BlogWorld & won't be online as much - but please be supportive of each other. - Connie Bensen

jjprojects posted a message on Twitter

“Is it legit yet to be a prolific micro-blogger but not a blogger? Screw it, I say yes. Blogging is different.”

September 2 at 6:04 pm - Link

I think blogging is diff - but to establish yourself - I think one needs to do both - Connie Bensen

To establish yourself as what though? Can you not just be a micro person if you want to now? Maybe it's worth asking the question. Who says you have to be an established blogger? - jjprojects

Is it about numbers? If one had hundreds of thousands of followers across social media without havinga blog, would that seem more credible? - jjprojects

Wayne Sutton posted a message on Twitter

“Thanks to @tiffani I'm now following @RedCross for udates on Gustav & disaster releif info. What are other twitter accouts for updates?”

August 30 at 11:47 am - Link

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list of tweets & feeds for hurricane updates - Wayne Sutton

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http://twitter.com/hurricanes - Wayne Sutton

While it's great to see the increase in use of Twitter for this, I STRONGLY suggest you rely on the National Hurricane Center & NOAA sites for *official information* and not solely on Twitter. Twitter is a great place to help with real time events, but I sure wouldn't want to be relying on Twitter for updates only to get a FAILWHALE when you least need it. I think @spin would agree. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

http://twitter.com/GustavRepor... - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/LeFigaro_La... - French - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/kgustin in Magnolia,TX - Wayne Sutton

Gustav search on twitter http://search.twitter.com/sear... - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/ricksanchez... CNN reporter looking for interviews - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/TheHomeDepo... - posting tweet advice - Wayne Sutton

http://www.jazzychad.com/twitt... Another Gustav twitter tracking site - Wayne Sutton

http://gustav08.ning.com/ - A gustav social network from @acarvin http://twitter.com/acarvin - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/MarkMayhew "I'm going to be tweeting Gustav from New Orleans until the lights go out " - Wayne Sutton

Great job Wayne! I put your list together in a blog post - http://conniebensen.com/blog/2... - Connie Bensen

http://twitter.com/ithinkmedia Location: Louisiana staying put for hurricane - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/urbanreport... in New Orleans live reporting with video cam - Wayne Sutton

http://www.crownweather.com/ - Wayne Sutton

http://www.hurricane-katrina.o... Katrian blog now posting about Gustav - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/msaizan Location: Baton Rouge, La. - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/WestleyAnni... tweeting Gustav - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/lyndale23 tweeting from Gustav - Wayne Sutton

http://www.grumpicus.org/weath... - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/grumpicus tweeting from Gustav - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/stbernardne... - News org. in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/LFT411 # Location Lafayette, LA - Wayne Sutton

http://gustav08.pbwiki.com wiki - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/MPBOnline # Location Jackson, MS - Wayne Sutton

http://beyondkatrina.ning.com/ - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/donnagunter Texas - Wayne Sutton

http://ventana.cerado.com/gust... Gustav mobile tracking site, including iPhone - Wayne Sutton

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog... Track Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth - Wayne Sutton

http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/... - Live online video news from New Orleans: WGNO, WWL, WDSU, WVUE - Wayne Sutton

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035... - Wayne Sutton

http://thekeyinfluencer.wordpr... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.jaredwsmith.com/200... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Youtube video form actor @hillharper - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/USATWeather... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.jaredwsmith.com/200... - Wayne Sutton

http://jazzychad.com/stuff/?p=... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.thetowntalk.com/app... local newspaper - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/GustavAlert... - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/iellie on ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/... - Wayne Sutton

http://twitter.com/craignewmar... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.echoditto.com/node/... Following Gustav Online - Wayne Sutton

http://afp.google.com/article/... Cuba blasted by wrath of deadly Hurricane Gustav - Wayne Sutton

http://www.youtube.com/myurban... - Wayne Sutton

http://gustavwiki.com/wiki/Mai... - Wayne Sutton

intuition is pretty good too .. though not infallible :-) - Gregory Lent

http://twitter.com/NOLAnews - Jennifer Boutell

http://www.authenticeccentric.... - Wayne Sutton

http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/200... - Wayne Sutton

http://conniebensen.com/blog/2... - Wayne Sutton

http://gustavtracker.appspot.c... - Wayne Sutton

Community Manager: Spencer Scott posted a message

“Introduction: Hi, my name is Spencer and I am the Community Manager/Administrator of Stardock Media. Glad to be here”

August 8 at 2:35 pm - Link

Hi Spencer & welcome! - Connie Bensen

Howdy Spencers - Tony

David Murray bookmarked a page on delicious

Seven Ways to Get Your Mom on Twitter

July 30 at 10:38 am - Link

You invite your mom to Twitter: You think Twitter is the best thing since AOLGerald-Levin-on-Fear and want to know the exact doings of everyone you care about, at all times (in 140 characters or less). If your stance is the latter, then you know how ha - David Murray

when we went to London & Paris we had very limited web access. So I gave my mom the link to my Twitter profile. She had the most fun watching my updates. And she gave the link to her friends & relatives. (Granted she never made an account - it was fun for her!) - Connie Bensen

Community Manager: Barry posted a message

“Just introducing myself. I have a lot of community to build and glad to find this resource.”

July 20 at 5:12 pm - Link

Hi Barry, what type of community are you building? - Connie Bensen

Community Manager: Beth Kanter posted a link

What is the sweet spot between a community and a network?

June 30 at 8:07 am - Link

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Thanks for sharing your post here, Beth! I love the graphic :) - Connie Bensen

thanks Connie .. still chewing on this idea of a community working in a networked way with a wiki project - Beth Kanter

Hey Beth, What did you think of my definition for your interview? I never heard back & was curious? - Connie Bensen

Community Manager: Amie Paxton posted a link

Hello! Introducing myself- I'm the channel community manager over at Dell!

July 22 at 9:47 am - Link

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tell us more about why you joined - Beth Kanter

Hi Amie! - Spencer Scott

Hello Beth & Scott! I joined to take notes and discuss topics with like-minded individuals. Beth, I enjoy your knowledge around non-profits, keep it rolling! - Amie Paxton

Hi Amie - welcome to the group! :) I'm the community mgr at Network Solutions in addition to some other projects - Connie Bensen

Social Computing Strategist: Alan Edgett posted a message

“Anyone have a list of "monitoring" tools/habits/tricks for monitoring brand mentions in social media? We're using Summize and Google of course...anything else?”

July 22 at 3:33 pm - Link

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I just found twing.com for forums; and I had found a Yahoo pipes that someone had made & put it into Netvibes that brought in diff results that G. Alerts (I should blog about them) - Connie Bensen

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that depends if you want to use services you pay for. I'd suggest looking at Radian6 - Robin Seidner

http://www.icerocket.com, http://blogdigger.com, http://www.feedsfarm.com, http://findarticles.com, http://www.plazoo.com, http://newspad.prweb.com, http://search.msn.com. http://topix.net - Nathan Chase

Technorati's worth searching for brand mentions.Check Chris Brogans article here: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/fiv... - Tom Beardshaw

> http://www.howsociable.com - alexandrek

TruCast is a good pay tool that actually analyzes text and quantifies opinion as positive or negative (a little buggy but still pretty solid) and Social Media Firehose (built on Yahoo Pipes) is also interesting. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

https://www.filtrbox.com/ is definitely worth checking out...we use it in combination with Summize & Alerts. Delicious tags are also worth following for the brands vertical whatever it may be... - Sean McColgan

Thanks all. Great suggestions... - Alan Edgett

http://www.trackur.com is a great pay tool from Andy Beal. - Brandon Uttley

Jon Mierow posted a message on Twitter

“ever tweeted just for tweets sake? know tweeps who do? maybe a twitter addiction hotline? twitter addiction defense association: tada!”

July 24 at 11:52 am - Link

oh for tweeps sake! - Connie Bensen

Geo Perdis posted a message on Twitter

“Original iPhone has high resale value. Called that one. http://snurl.com/31wh5 [bits_blogs_nytimes_com]”

July 20 at 7:24 am - Link

hey thx for following me! Are you selling your iphone? I hope that it's been cooperating - Connie Bensen

Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“I am taking another look at Evernote now that they have an iPhone app. I like stuff that syncs across web, desktop and mobile.”

July 20 at 6:45 am - Link

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Evernote is excellent; I use it more or less daily now. - Alexander Carlill

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Evernote is totally amazing - I couldn't live without it! - Connie Bensen

any invite for this ? - Ben Borges

@Ben: Its open for everyone. Just create a new account. Its an awesome service! - Rahul Das

Evernote it great. I use it for capturing notes. I tried it for a to-do list but it just wasn't natural. Not sure how that could be improved. - Al Degutis via twhirl

they got the social, sync and 'everywhere' part just right. But the actual editing capabilities when note taking are crude and basic. I keep going back to google notebook which is not as omnipresent as Evernote but is hugely more intuitive as a note taking tool. - Metta (Kamath)

EverNote is what we want the cloud to be. - Warner Crocker

My index cards don't need to be synced. :-) They just go with me everywhere. - Brent Newhall

Evernote is an unbelievably good service. It is an integral part of my daily work routine... - Dukeswharf via twhirl

I have been a Onenote user for many years but find Evernote multiplatform sync pretty valuable. - Tim FitzGerald

I like Evernote, all I need is an iPhone now - Dom

Evernote is great, but disappointingly, the iPhone native app won't do anything for you that the iPhone web app doesn't do. (Which I leaves me wondering what the point is.) - Jack Collins

No, take it from me, Steve... Evernote is a life saver. The iPhone app is great, and as soon as they introduce the ability to edit notes on the iphone...it will be indespensible! - Ken Donofrio

Can some give ideas on HOW you use it? - Vince DeGeorge

If Google Notebook added a few new features, eg: text recognition, it would be an Evernote substitute. Then I can run everything through Google. - Barak B

Mykl Roventine dugg a story on Digg

Official Website for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"

July 19 at 6:19 pm - Link

you are posting interesting things - just having fun? :) - Connie Bensen

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“Playing with identi.ca can you add me there if you use it? http://identi.ca/loic thanks!”

July 19 at 6:03 pm - Link

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I use it exclusively now! No more twitter for me. - Gavin

added - Blake Robinson via Alert Thingy

I tweeted the request with your link. It's getting better there - Connie Bensen

Thomas Knoll posted a message on Twitter

“Sad moment: Ritual Coffee Roasters looks/smells great, but my dumb ass needs to plug in.”

July 19 at 2:08 pm - Link

I hear ya - my laptop runs for a whopping 15 min's then needs juice (not java either!) - Connie Bensen

Adele McAlear posted a message on Twitter

“Feeling very discombobulated today. Out of sorts.”

July 13 at 11:27 am - Link

There have been a few of us feeling that way this week. I'm better today (unplugged for awhile - give it a try...) Hope you feel better soon! - Connie Bensen

I think this calls for some chocolate, a trashy novel, and a delicious adult beverage. - Donna Mugavero

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“Why do you think there are so few women in tech industry and conferences?”

July 12 at 8:41 pm - Link

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Loic is asking about women in tech industry/conferences is a big problem and not one we'll solve in 140 characters. - Robert Scoble

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The women in tech conference issue has been written about dozens of times, too. You should check out http://www.blogher.org - Robert Scoble

it is very sad we should work on it. Geraldine and myself want more at LeWeb. - Loic Le Meur

Loic, read this: http://www.kottke.org/07/02/ge... - Robert Scoble

Here is a list of tech speakers; lots of women http://tinyurl.com/6xkeaw - Roxanne Darling

Because when I was a computer scientist student, we had only one girl in the group? - directeur via NoiseRiver

Loic - I sent you two tweets; no idea why they don't show up in FriendFeed - Roxanne Darling

It would be good to see more women involved in conservations like this in places like this (friendfeed) too. - jjprojects

I was at TechEd last year; don't I count? Don't answer that. Host something where I don't have to book a flight or get a hotel! - MiniMage

this is one of the least settled arguments this year... have to say, seeing that conference you mentioned the other day - http://tinyurl.com/2jjalk - there's a huge balance there. So maybe it's just more about who is organizing. - Lucretia Pruitt

thanks all for the links and comments. Robert will read these. - Loic Le Meur

because I didnt receive an invitation .... - Margit Hinke

I think that's perception. I've met and worked with (and read about etc.) just as many women as I have men. There is much more a balance now then there was a few years ago. - Candace Holly

Because the tech industry self-selects for maleness. It's generally not woman friendly. - Craig Thomler

Lucretia: what's even more fun is that conference is within walking distance of my house. I love it when cool conferences happen literally in my back yard. - Robert Scoble

My own personal opinion and experience - they aren't taken as seriously as their male peers - Susanne "Renee" Bullo

@sbullo: My personal opinion? This distinction male/female doesn't have actually its place when it comes to tech. Because we tech folks are the very cute n' sweet assexual babies! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I've been asking that question ALL my life! - fbrunel

I'm available too - community building, networking & branding - just need an invite :) - Connie Bensen

Most men are fans of logic, which is used extensively in the Tech industry. There are women who love logic, but if mine is any indicator, logic is always a last resort! - Sean McGee

Is there still a huge gap between the salaries for men and women? As I alluded to before, conferences can be out of reach for financial reasons alone. I asked my employers to send me to TechEd for 3 years before it actually happened; I've been working there for 9 years. (Thank you, boss! I'm not complaining!) - MiniMage

Conferences? Look at the recommended here... there's a limited list of women anyone thinks of inviting to speak, etc. and they can't do every conference, yet there are tons of men. Why are there more men in tech in general? Speaking from my experience, it's a reality that if you have kids and drop out for even a few months, the world passes you by and you drop back down to the Z-list. Six months home with #1 and I had no career to go back to and had to start over again. - Cyndy

This one boggles my mind, because I've had great experiences with women in tech. Usually smarter and more mature than the guys anyway. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Sorry but I don't belive and won't believe that someone's sex defines his/her abilities. I've seen many smart and dumb women/men in my dev's life. Sure, there's differences in the way they solve problems (you just can't deny it :) ) BUT it's before all about the one who is willing to do a nice and clean job. - directeur via NoiseRiver

Most of the time, women are more straight forward and spend less time aspiring for higher positions, limelight or I should not say, attention, but women (i could be wrong) like to stay low key. Priorities in women are very different compared to men. Which starts another topic..why women sometimes feel inadequate competing with men. In most cases, women tend to give in easily. But lately there have been a lot of successful women who have received a lot of positive coverage, which is good. The more coverage women get, other women will see and gain confidence that there is potential for them in technology. (This is my own personal opinion. Others may share very different views. But hope this might help to shed some light on the topic. Good luck with the conference.) - Brenda McLaren

@cstechcast: Sorry, This is NOT true. It's just what you think :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

@directeur oh that would be lovely if it were true @sean I love being the exception to the rule - Susanne "Renee" Bullo

Because I'm too busy taking care of my kid, doing my "day job" and curing world hunger to try to grow my reach to that level. ;) But I soon hope to find a way to add several hours to the day in order to do so. Then... watch out! - Robyn Miller

@sbullo I'm glad someone got that I was saying there were exceptions to the rule! - Sean McGee

Brenda - very true about women not being as competitive as men, one place I worked for a short period of time was asking why it was that women providers were having a harder time getting jobs as the men. I shared with them something I found early on - women will downplay their abilities every time whereas men will (not lie, mind you) tend to overplay their abilities. Men tend to be better "self" salesmen. - Susanne "Renee" Bullo

@directeur, I hear you, sex does not define ability, I agree. But I have heard from a couple women who have had to deal with sexism and the issue of not being taken seriously. I've also met women who have moved up without having too many issues. Just my small sample, but some men put priority on building castles and have little regard for others, while women can be more willing to work together and get along. I do think some men don't take women seriously and that is part of the problem. - Eric @ CS Techcast

@robynmiller: Good luck :) And well, sorry to disapoint you, but you will never have more than 24hrs a day : http://www.gutenberg.org/etext... is a must read IMHO :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

+100 Robyn - Cyndy

@cstechcast: I hear you! Sincerly. But in the other hand I think that it's up to the individual person (man or woman) to define and follow till achievement his objectives and dreams. Keeping on saying "we women are underestimated...etc." is not the solution. You'll never hear a man saying "we men are underestimated" Not because it doesn't happen, but I (a man) take these things personaly and never generalize to my sex - directeur via NoiseRiver

@directeur: 10-4, understood. I just think some people still treat women unfairly for no reason, I've seen it. It's unfortunate because my experience with women in tech has been almost all positive. A small sample I know, and I know our choices determine our path. Agree with that. - Eric @ CS Techcast

@Susanne: Yes...very true...I am generally not comfortable upselling myself. - Brenda McLaren

The same people get asked to speak over and over again. It's lack of imagination on the part of organizers, or lack of knowledge of who is out there. Women don't self-promote (myself excluded). - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

The French! lol Loic don't you have many beautiful French girlfriends? lmao - Igor The Troll

What Cyndy, Robyn, Suzanne and Francine said. Also, in this age high tech is seen as a "man's" world. Women are just not taken that seriously or ostracized/objectified (ne Playboy) if reaching any kind of prominence. You all remember what happened to Kathy Sierra, right? The women Brenda talk about are the exception. - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

Helen, be careful I think Loic is trying to get hooked up! ;-) - Igor The Troll

They don't like them? - Sam Pullara

this industry and their conferences are mostly boring - Erno Hannink

I got an idea. I will start TechBitches.com and make a video on Seesmic. Then you can get Scoble and "Fast Company" to destroy my reputation and get every Soccer Mom to block me.... now wait didn't that already happen? um... hmmmmmm - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

or was that someone else? I think it was called "Tech" something. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

"Tech"something. yes?... it is all coming to me now. Seems 2of offended a lot of blue state people who didn't know the context - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Not all sections of tech industry are male dominated. I joined a library tech team a couple of years ago as the 7th member and the 2nd male in the team. - Nick Cowie

Maybe Robert can cut it off and become the first Alister woman in tech industry! LMAO - Igor The Troll

But jokes a side, how about a Martha Steward of tech? What happened to the HP lady, Carly Fiorina? - Igor The Troll

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“I'm not surprised by @davewiner 's answer http://tinyurl.com/5an4cs Thanks for sharing.”

July 12 at 4:12 pm - Link

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I loved school & it came easily. Voted most likely to succeed. Never thought I'd be doing this because of my locale .. ie: interacting with amazing people & marketing, PR, etc - Connie Bensen

eric Norlin posted a message on Twitter

“ever have one of those days that makes you positively giddy about your future? i'm having one right now. glooooorious!”

June 29 at 2:02 pm - Link

are you sharing those drugs? - Connie Bensen

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excellent article on healthcare roi on blogging - Connie Bensen

Mykl Roventine posted a message on Twitter

“@cbensen Good, busy too. Great news re speaker! Did you hear Meg can get us the library space for free?”

June 27 at 7:52 am - Link

I did! we'll be talking soon - I'll be polling the group - Connie Bensen

Sudha Jamthe posted a message on Twitter

“@cbensen you are so awesome!!! I am one of 1500 people who realized it today :-)”

June 25 at 11:22 pm - Link

Thanks so much! I'm following you on Twitter now too. :) - Connie Bensen

Thomas Knoll posted a message on Twitter

“got a ride home.... w00T”

June 5 at 6:31 pm - Link

hey our project has grown considerably ! have some incredible new help - Connie Bensen

Steve Bridger posted a message on Twitter

“I'm repeating myself... repeating myself”

June 3 at 5:05 am - Link

are you talking to us or yourself? if to yourself - make sure that you win the argument! ;) - Connie Bensen

Thomas Knoll posted a message on Twitter

“@kimmersck left me at the airport and drove off to work. This crazy thing is actually beginnig. MSP to SFO”

June 3 at 5:16 am - Link

but it's exciting - isn't it? Enjoy the adventure - Connie Bensen

Connie Bensen posted a message

“do you know of the blog where there was a video of Jeremiah Owyang at the Cluetrain event?”

June 1 at 8:49 pm - Link

I found it - http://www.conversationsmatter... - Connie Bensen

shelisrael1 posted a message

“Amazing News Twitter is down for a scheduled maintenance.”

June 1 at 8:39 pm - Link

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I'm missing Twitter - I had a question to ask. I finally subscribed to your feed (sorry that I'm SO slow!) - Connie Bensen

Connie, You are ahead of most of the world so you are not so slow. Most normal people think "FriendFeed is ebonics for having friends to dinner. - shelisrael1

@Shel - LOL - good one!! - Susan Beebe

@susan - do you ever sleep? Didn't I see you commenting here on FF at like 1am pacific :-) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“I'm doing research on MySpace, wow, I'm actually getting used to the interface after spending all week in there.”

May 31 at 7:00 pm - Link

Mike Reynolds liked this

You are very brave for your MySpace efforts. - Mike Reynolds

owsers - is it as painful as it was for us getting used to Facebook? although people love being able to personalize their backgrounds etc (that was the first complaint my community had about FB) - Connie Bensen

Funny Mike! - Jeremiah Owyang

I can't deal with MySpace even though I have a profile - Michael VanDervort