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The Future of Social Media: The Walls Come Crumbling Down - http://www.wired.com/dualper...
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"The social web trend is more or less complete. Oprah's gone Twitter, your co-worker has a MySpace problem, and if your parents aren't bugging you with Facebook movie quiz invites, they probably will be by the time you're done reading this. People are flocking to these sites in record numbers, as Facebook now boasts over 200 million users worldwide, and Twitter has grown 3,000 percent since last year. But for the social web to evolve into its final stage and take flight, the walls that separate these services, their users and everything they create will have to come down."
- andy brudtkuhl
from Bookmarklet
"If you examine them closely, the social websites that are all the rage now have a strong family resemblance to the earliest internet giant, America Online."
- andy brudtkuhl
"A friend cannot reply to your Twitter post without registering an account, and you are basically locked out of doing anything on Facebook unless you sign up. And it's all-but-impossible to take all your stuff out of these services in order to switch to a competitor. "
- andy brudtkuhl
"The vision of a web where users are no longer locked up with their content away from others just because they picked a different social networking service, is a big one."
- andy brudtkuhl
reading : The Importance of Active Community Management - Proved With Real Data http://tomhumbarger.wordpress.com/2009...
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Acronym: community Archives - http://blogs.asaecenter.org/Acronym...
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Blog post with thoughts on biuilding community in an association
- Beth Brodovsky
Definitely looks like a great resource of articles. I love the Acronym blog!
- Mike Templeton
Agreed. Love the Acronym blog and am thrilled they spent May focused on community building tactics.
- Beth Brodovsky
Why do I always design prettier stuff for clients than I ever manage to design for myself?
Lani, Micah Wittman, chrisofspades and 30 other people liked this
Cuz they're paying? ;)
- ♥patricia♥
Maybe, but I just seem to find better inspiration for others. It's like I don't know what I like.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, that's exactly the problem I have. Even more inspiring are projects I'm not even working on. Those I get ideas out the yin yang for. As soon as it's a project I'm working on? Well runs dry. If it's a project for myself? Well runs dry and then explodes.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
we push ourselves harder when our reputation is on the line with someone other than ourselves?
- Josh Haley
It's like a home builder. They never finish their own :)
- Charlie Anzman
"It's like I don't know what I like." No truer words. I like to think it's because I'm driving myself to do better, but it's probably ADD or perfectionism ;)
- Jason Silverstein
Perhaps it's because you're flexibile in what you like that you can do the best work for clients?
- Daniel Dulitz
I suffer similarly. I usually see other people's problems as more interesting than my own, so easier to focus on and solve. With clients, there's a better chance of near-complete satisfaction sooner. But with me as a client, it's never* good enough, hence I'm never* satified and project is never* completed.
- Bruce Colthart
I think Daniel has a great point. I think because designers tend to be people who are very good at appreciating many different styles, we find it very hard to choose a style for ourselves. I went through at least a few dozen different versions of our wedding invitations before settling on a final design - and that's before even considering typefaces! But it is this same open mindedness that allows us to adapt quickly to a wide variety of clients' tastes, and create something beautiful for each.
- Jeanette Bosman
I think when I design stuff for myself, I often get so tired of the flip-flopping that I end up doing something simple just to get the project done and off my to-do list.
- Jeanette Bosman
I agree with everything in here. To add, after much intropsection, I think another part of the problem is that while I go through logical steps of analysis, ideation and creation when doing external work, when I sit down to do my own work, I want to just be able to sketch a little bit to get a general idea, then just start writing code/photoshopping the finished result. It's as if I'm a...
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- Kevin Fox
What!? And give up control?? NEVER! :) :) :)
- Jeanette Bosman
when designing something for a client, they set constraints. you don't have many of those constraints when designing for yourself. the worst thing a client can tell me is to do anything i want.
- daniel silveira
Perhaps you have little time to spend on the projects for yourself, and end up pushing them out before they've really had enough time to bake?
- DGentry
Yeah Daniel S. – you're so right. Constraints (a term i use alot but not when i needed it here) are key, and without them, projects can go on forever.
- Bruce Colthart
*nods* So true. Great tweet and discussion.
- Micah Wittman
because you are your toughest client. and your harshest critic.
- chrisofspades
Nicholas James, Nathan Chase, FFing Enigma (aka Tina) and 27 other people liked this
interesting coming from someone with 99% twitter entries on friendfeed.
- Carlos Ayala
but you'll be suprise how I use it and I still love it. Custom searches, I have my rooms and filters setup. Plus I do have 31 other online services going to my friendfeed stream. You just see tweets the most.
- Wayne Sutton
No doubt. @friendfeed is fast becoming my main portal where I consume all of my social networking activity, including Twitter.
- Mike Templeton
holy crap 31 other online services? i'm lucky to remember 2 passwords
- Steve C
i am not surprised at all. my comment was in reference to the fact that i think you should be actually leveraging the power of FF and post here instead and have your posts appear on twitter. even though you use FF in the way that you do....you are missing out on its most powerful aspect.
- Carlos Ayala
I understand, but I knew it would go here and I tweeted so followers would see it for a reason... :)
- Wayne Sutton
Twitter entries sometimes take over people streams. That's why now every time I wanna see someone's feed I search for "-service:twitter" in it. Glad you are enjoying FF Wayne.
- Alejandro
Carlos, Wayne is a power Twitter user and has been on there a long time. But he's sharp and will dominate FriendFeed soon with time. :)
- Louis Gray
lol not sure about "dominate" I'll leave that up to Scoble. I'm learning everything about FriendFeed from Louis Gray
- Wayne Sutton
Yay, Wayne! Good to see you more active here on FF. All you have to do now is convince LaToya. :)
- Derrick
I'm doing the same. Tweeting on Twitter and watch them grow on FriendFeed. I love FriendFeed and Twitter. I think they compliment each other perfectly.
- Svartling
I actually don't mind the newest of FriendFeed users joining with nothing but Twitter. Their engagement with Likes and Comments is what will make them valuable. At least they're trying. I've definitely noticed Wayne being a lot more active here, which I think is awesome given his visibility on Twitter.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Louis, I am fully aware of who Mr. Sutton is. My initial comment still stands. That said, its also really good to have him on here and look forward to have him flip the twitter script for FF. I will be watching. :)
- Carlos Ayala
Sharing: Eight reasons I love FriendFeed - http://techwag.com/index... (via http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...)
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Before you post a #followfriday with 30 @names in it, how about picking a couple of people and providing details on why I should follow?
Kol Tregaskes, Mike Templeton, ursi and 24 other people liked this
Exactly.
- Christopher Harley
I can't believe you just wrote that. I'm on Jesse Stay's post http://friendfeed.com/jessest... commenting. He agrees with you and so do I. But let's face it. That's why you, he and many others are on friendfeed more than twitter. I hate followfridays esp when I see that list of names that usually includes the person himself or herself RTing someone who included them the first time.
- Myrna
I don't understand the RT'ing at all. I've been guilty of just posting a few names and letting that be it, but we need to change how this thing works because it's becoming absolutely useless.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Totally agree. The idea behind Follow Friday is good, but without some theme or reason given, I'm not going to pay attention. Don't make me do the work of parsing your list - that's YOUR job.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I agree. We have to rehabilitate #followfriday 's efficiency by making it useful again.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
At this point, it's cool to see that you've been recommended, but I don't think anyone is getting any actual follows because of the sheer volume of people getting recommended.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Who wants to follow anyone on a list of 6-10 people when you know most times the person doesn't have a clue about most of the names, not always but most and especially when you see a few tweets with a bunch of names from that person. But I know I'm preaching to the choir here.
- Myrna
#followfriday is currently more of an ego-boost for the person you recommend than anything else.
- Martin Bryant
Rahsheen, you are attracting such insightful people. Why are we talking about Twitter anyway when we have FF? Robert Scoble would love to know I'm pitching(but I'm talking from heart not selling)
- Myrna
I dont endorse #followfriday. I rather follow someone whose tweets were RT'd by those I follow or those having interesting conversations with my friends.
- surya
I still have an interest in the Twitter community because there are still some really cool peope who are just not ready to join us yet. Also, Twitter's simplicity in working via SMS can't be matched my FF for obvious reasons. Not everyone has an iPhone or whatever :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I agree. The current way #followfriday works is a joke and a travesty, at least from what I see most of the time. A list of names - generally promoting a company or group - doesn't tell me anything about why I should follow. I'm also seeing that people spew basically the same list each week.
- Mark Bockenstedt
Has anyone noticed any change in your subscriptions after a Follow Friday mention? I haven't. I also haven't started following anyone mentioned in those lists on Follow Friday. I agree with Mark, a lot of people list the same people every week.
- Trish R
I've been on a #followfriday from one my online running friends but no bump in running followers. Just more of the random ones.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I haven't seen a bump in my followers and I have been named and RT'd on multiple follow fridays by many people. That's all it amouts to, though. Nobody is actually following anyone. It's too much work, I think.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Martin's probably right. But last week I has someone tell me they'd had a really crappy week and seeing me call them out as an "awesome person I know in real life" for followfriday really brightened their day. That made it worth it to me, even if that wasn't the original intended purpose.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Oh, it's definitely ok for it to be an ego boost, but I think we need to make it an ego boost for less people at a time. Focus more on individuals. Give us details on why we should check them out. Even if it's just "Such and such is new to Twitter and looking for cool peeps. Check them out"
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
exactly. I stop looking at them, they become meaningless. I'd much rather hear one or two good names and why you like them.
- Peggy Dolane
What The Hashtag - Tracking Hashtags Just Got Better - http://getanewbrowser.com/2009...
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Are hashtags here to stay?
- Justin Whittaker
Justin, I think you'll still see them as a way to tag things by text, but the future is in meta things you don't see on the surface. Hashtags are a hack for not being able to categorize Tweets in a logical way. They pollute the 140 character stream and just add to the noise on sites like Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, whether or not you like the hashtag, it was created by the community as a way to categorize tweets. If you remember, Twitter didn't even use @ in the beginning, and now it's common. How else are we supposed to tell people that a tweet is relevant to SXSW or Star Trek or hockey? Until Twitter can read my mind, I'll use hashtags.
- Michael Gaines
@michael - great points... @jesse i think they reduce the noise on twitter allowing people to find discussions
- andy brudtkuhl
hashtags increase the value of those discussions because they form a relationship to an otherwise disconnected system. If they had threaded conversations - it would be a lot easier to discern the meaning of a conversation without the hashtag annotation
- andy brudtkuhl
I think they're a necessary evil. They do pollute the stream but they're a fantastic way of grouping content.
- Mark Bockenstedt
Even with better search capabilities, hashtags are a deliberate way of saying your message is part of a larger conversation. Event tweets are a prime example.
- Mike Templeton
Jesse is just jealous. #snark
- Chris Messina
Chris: I found this post by searching on "jealous." Is jealous a hashtag or not? Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble just proved the point I was about to make. The # symbol is not needed.
- Josh Haley
Beats the hell out of What The Trend
- Angus Burton
a hashtag is a delimiter between deliberate and accidental participation in a meme
- Brian Hendrickson
well put Brian
- Angus Burton
@brian: That is my point exactly. Especially when using event/conference tags. Using the event hashtag deliberately puts your content into the event stream for others to see. Hashtags are not necessarily there for searching, but for grouping content together.
- Mike Templeton
Your Friday Fix: 3 Reasons to use a location based social network (Brightkite) - http://socialwayne.com/2009...
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I've always wondered what was so International about the Des Moines International Airport. Here's the answer: http://video.whotv.com/global...
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if you don't want to watch the video, it's because we have a customs agent who can inspect international freight and passports and the like
- Mark Bockenstedt
Good Morning from the International Search Summit il London - our hashtag is: #isslon
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#bookblockade is now a hashtag! Yay! http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links... Help spread the word!
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Please don't forget to use the #liwf hashtag if you're at the London International Wine Fair today!! And come visit us at B20 :-)
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omg wow. pulling together a conference and want to display cool live conference tweets? use http://visibletweets.com/#query=... insert your own #hashtag
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What The Hashtag - Tracking Hashtags Just Got Better - http://getanewbrowser.com/2009...
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What The Hashtag - Tracking Hashtags Just Got Better - http://getanewbrowser.com/2009...
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"We’ve been tracking the number of times a hashtag is being used for awhile, as well tracking the top contributors, but now we also call out the number of uses made by each contributor, and the total number of tweets and unique contributors for a week’s worth of usage."
- andy brudtkuhl
"Click the participate link and a box will pop open allowing you to craft your message. You will be greeted by a message box with the familiar character counter and your hashtag already inserted. Just include your username and password and we submit everything to Twitter directly through their API."
- andy brudtkuhl
"Last night we rolled out a new design and some new features to What the Hashtag, a user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags on Twitter. All feedback is welcome via comment here or on the blog." http://ff.im/2SLMS
- andy brudtkuhl
It reminds me when I called for the use of #Madagascar hashtag, at the beginning of the crisis here when I 'forced myself' to live-twit in order to push Malagasy Facebookers to Twit. Didn't created the hashtag. Am very interested by this hashtags tracker: thanks for this.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
@Thierry it's a great service
- andy brudtkuhl
Last night we rolled out a new design and some new features to What the Hashtag, a user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags on Twitter. All feedback is welcome via comment here or on the blog. http://blog.wthashtag.com/2009...
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Would love to get feedback from the FriendFeed crowd, as I know hashtags have been a hot topic of conversation over here in recent weeks.
- Mike Templeton
looks great guys
- andy brudtkuhl
Wall Street Journal Staff Not Allowed To Mix "Business And Pleasure" On Twitter - http://www.businessinsider.com/wsj-sta...
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"Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alix Freedman sent an e-mail to employees directing how they may and may not use social media sites like Twitter and Facebook."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
NOTE: If you like this article, make sure to join the "Media News And Analysis" group... http://friendfeed.com/media-n...
- Brad Williamson
its a code of conduct for social media marketing that includes twitter and friendfeed.
- TrafficBug
I wish FF had a Twitter Tab so I could view my timeline(s). I'd never leave.
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Would be great to be able to filter out a separate view that ONLY included Twitter posts. Maybe a new "Friends" list for all Twitter contacts?
- Mike Templeton
that's doable by searching service:twitter
- Mark Bockenstedt
Audience Targeting in Social Media - http://www.pr-squared.com/index...
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It's T-Minus 17 hours till the launch of our first premium report: The RWW Guide to Online Community Management
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@philson There is such a thing - http://wthashtag.com/wiki... - created by Des Moines hooligans @miketempleton @jensenrf and @chewbocka!
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Thanks for mentioning us. We need all the help we can get spreading the word about @wthashtag.
- Mike Templeton
Kmart and Sears launch social sites http://www.mysears.com/ http://www.mykmart.com/ encourages buyer to buyer feedback
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I love the idea for MyKmart / MySears. Wish more brands encouraged community and feedback on their own turf. Will be fun to watch.
- Mike Templeton
Nah, I'm just not going to go to each brand's "my" site. And I'm certainly not going to go there and expect that most people are "real" as opposed to plants placed/paid by the brand.
- Craig Eddy
A smarter move for Kmart & Sears is to use existing socials, benefiting from cross-pollination.
- Jason Nunnelley
I dont like it.. YASN = yet another social network.. why not use the tools everyone is using already - instead of trying to pull people in. that's why the news industry is flailing now - refusal to adapt and insistence on pulling people in when they didnt want to be
- andy brudtkuhl
We added reviews to our sites and in very short order have over 7000 responses. It's been very useful for everyone. But, it all remains under our primary domains so it does not take the shape of a separate social media site.
- Rick Bucich
Rick - that is exactly how it should happen
- andy brudtkuhl
@i140 Jason: perhaps it's particular to our product but for us, existing review platforms haven't gotten traction. I suspect it is because many (like Yelp) are localized and our customers are nationwide and international.
- Rick Bucich
Interesting conglomeration at mykmart, mysears, etc. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Jason Nunnelley
Look at non-traditional social networks that sprout up around e-commerce... Amazon comments, lists, recommendations, etc... Netflix has friends features, recommendations, ratings
- andy brudtkuhl
In an article about the launch the founder talks about using things like Facebook Connect, etc. to pull in additional user data. Doesn't want it to be a chore to set up "another profile." Also, this is an opportunity for them to build partnerships with places like Amazon, Netflix, etc. to bring in their content. Either way, they'll build up a community of uber-focused brand loyalists.
- Mike Templeton
I don't think there's a solid argument yet over which is better: custom-building social features or leveraging existing platforms? Corporations like Sears will want to collect (and own) customer data and behaviors, so custom-building makes sense out of the gate for them. Building off Facebook Connect assumes that Facebook is *the* ubiquitous social networking utility, which may be true, but does require a leap of faith from the big corp standpoint.
- Nathan T. Wright
@mike true but those brand loyalists are already buying from them and are following them on Twitter, Facebook, etc... Why create another bridge? Why create more dispersion?
- andy brudtkuhl
@webtwopointeight I concede your point, and see a social deep-linking future. Aren't we wishing we had threading now?
- Jason Nunnelley
@Nathan - you are exactly right - they want the data. This why newspapers are in the state they are today. They wanted to own eyeballs and data (classifieds, jobs, etc). Rather than using the tools available they tried to create their own and they became irrelevant
- andy brudtkuhl
@abrudtkuhl The idea is to keep you on the site. It makes sense. They link into existing socials also. <3 existing platforms.
- Jason Nunnelley
I wonder if you can create a happy medium here. Build some proprietary social functionality but still allow for the portability of identity and social graphs?
- Nathan T. Wright
@abrudtkuhl Though we don't like to admit it, not everyone is on Twitter/Facebook. This is a way for Sears to mine the data they collect from fans, just like Facebook is doing as a third-party aggregator. Also, how much are you really going to be posting about Sears on other websites? To me this is like signing up for the email newsletter. I joined their community because I am interested. I'll go there to see reviews, discussions, etc. related to Sears. It's not only a filter for them, but a filter for me.
- Mike Templeton
Completely retarded. It shows a complete lack of understanding for the long-term as we move away from proprietary networks, owning customers, etc.
- coldbrew
But after the initial "flash in the pan" from the site being new, what compels me to keep coming back to mysears.com? Honestly, I can't think of anything...
- Craig Eddy
@mike oh yes i agree they want to broaden their social reach .. but they should do it on their main domain, wrapped around their store - directly linking the online buying experience with the social experience. Not YASN
- andy brudtkuhl
@Craig - exactly that's why it needs tied into the buying experience. Any B&M store like this should look to Amazon for how to approach implementing proprietary social systems into the buying experience - cuz that's where it matters.
- andy brudtkuhl
Example: Whenever I am looking to buy something, I go to Amazon or Newegg first to check out the ratings and recommendations - which are tightly coupled to the product - not on a completely different site
- andy brudtkuhl
http://www.viewpoints.com/ is an existing social, just not one of the ones we typically use. I agree that controlling your space is paramount in commerce. Amazon comments are dead on.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Andy I think you will see them incorporating things like reviews and discussions from the MySears site back into their main online experience. Just give them time.
- Mike Templeton
@Mike undoubtedly... so that begs the question - why not just implement that in the main site? ...Where all your customers are already visiting ... right where they can click "BUY"
- andy brudtkuhl
Another component I love about this: "2,338 members in IA" Already that's more people than I follow on Twitter, and I follow people from everywhere. This is a great way for me to find targeted information from a targeted audience.
- Mike Templeton
The benefit to the stores are cross-linking / deep-linking between their web presences. I don't see a benefit to the customer - like Craig said "why would i go back?"
- andy brudtkuhl
Amazon has only one physical product of their own (not counting SKUs), and it also represents lots of different retailers. It is not quite appropriate for an analogy.
- coldbrew
@coldbrew yea it is - sears sells products that arent their own
- andy brudtkuhl
@Andy I'm saying they will add that into the main site. It's just a difference of a domain. It also creates some separation for those who may not care. "To join in discussions about this product, visit MySears.com and see what other consumers are saying."
- Mike Templeton
Brudtkuhl: The majority of Sears products are their own (Kenmore, Craftsmen, etc.). I wouldn't go to Sears for anything else. Sears doesn't have other vendors for whom their domain is an ecommerce site. Amazon has less conflict of interest in controlling the consumer contributions (moderating poor reviews).
- coldbrew
It's still a digital natives issue if you ask me. Traditional retailers too often have very little knowledge, interest, or ability in using social computing to engage customers, despite these encouraging signs. Of course, the survivors 10 years from now will have figured it out, one way or another.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
@Dion: Do you feel that Sears is not "getting it" with this community? They have a blog, offer consumer reviews, discussion sections, a "submit your idea" ala Dell's Ideastorm, plus outposts on the top social media websites. They've even got tools to enable users to share information via email or other channels. Seems to me they are ticking all the social media boxes.
- Mike Templeton
I think Dion is drawing a distinction between "ticking the boxes" and making it part of the fabric of the retailer... I work at Best Buy and we are spending a lot of time thinking about the latter.
- Ben Hedrington
@benhedrington But first Best Buy had to step into the conversation, right? I think this is a good step for Sears, but is also only the first step. With what they've launched for now, I'd be surprised if we don't see this stuff integrated into their main experience in the near future.
- Mike Templeton
Mike, I'm with Ben, social retailing is something that goes far beyond social media; it's about transforming the very way customers are engaged by the company. The models for doing this effectively (both in terms of cost and the desired outcomes on both sides of the conversation) are still evolving. Social media is a good medium, but it's far from sufficient when it comes to engaging customers over the network as a primary channel. Great first steps from Sears IMHO.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
@Mike I don't disagree start somewhere start small and grow it based on feedback organically... but when you see these vendor platforms launch it seems more about "installing a product to make you social" in this case Viewpoints.com rather than efforts to become a social retailer. All that said kudos to Sears for trying and getting out there with something.
- Ben Hedrington
Jeremiah thanks for your post. Rob Harles here - I am the VP of Community at Sears. The comments from your followers are very helpful and many of them dead on. This is a first step for us and we are committed to seeing this through to fully integrate community into everything that we do. We are very keen on using this initiative to learn and evolve. So, we are glad to hear from you.
- Robert Harles
Robert - thanks for chiming in! Great to know you are listening!
- andy brudtkuhl
@Mike- Great discussion! This is Julie-Community Liason on MySears. Sears.com and MySears are linked. When you check out a product, there are reviews and discussion links from the MySears site on the product page. Just wanted to let you know-Sears is trying to make the social interaction work with the retail side.
- Julie Kayaian
Redbox to end their free movie Monday, dammit! http://consumerist.com/5245230...
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I only liked this because I agree that it sucks. I got the email from them yesterday. Sounds like they are still doing a free movie on the first Monday of the month, but I guess I've got to start paying for my movies now...
- Mike Templeton
they accomplished their goal of getting us hooked. at $1 per movie, I'll keep going back.
- Mark Bockenstedt
from IM
How are you rewarding those people who link to your blog? Here's what I do:
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Since the beginning of 2008, I have been bookmarking links to my blog on Delicious, tagged "coverage"
- Louis Gray
You can see the thousands of links here: http://delicious.com/louismg...
- Louis Gray
I add secondary tags for the subject, like "blogging", "friendfeed", "twitter", etc.
- Louis Gray
The delicious bookmarks get shown on FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Good idea
- Bwana ☠
Now, I set up my settings so that every delicious bookmark I make goes to Twitter via FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
So if you are linking to me, not only will everyone here see it, but everyone on Twitter will see it. Guaranteed exposure.
- Louis Gray
And in theory, it gives more exposure back to me by making it look like my blog has a higher rate of visibility.
- Louis Gray
Love it Louis. I rt those who have linked to me: http://twitter.com/brianso...
- Brian Solis
Very good idea..my delicious bookmarks all go to Facebook as well.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Great idea!
- Craig Huffstetler
I like them in friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
briliant, thanks for sharing
- anna sauce
Robert, I try to do the same, assuming they are here, but FriendFeed is not yet the superset. I also tend to share them in Google Reader when possible.
- Louis Gray
Hmm Must add Friendfeed to my blog
- Lindy Asimus
And we know the power of a Scoble "Like!"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Plus sometimes you strike up conversations with the bloggers, freely sharing ideas and explaining. That impressed me way back when...
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
That's a fantastic idea. Think I'll start doing it.
- Paul Balcerak
Yes, Mary. It always makes sense to make comments and engage with those discussing your content, if you have the time.
- Louis Gray
Nice. Encourage people to link to you by linking to them in return. Not a new concept but definitely an innovative way of doing it.
- Mark Bockenstedt
Great idea Louis. You have become my social media constant, I have to hang on to you so I don't get LOST.
- Matthew
new strategy: link to louis in every single blog post... muwahahahaha
- andy brudtkuhl
I used to do this a lot but then he got me all caught up in this 'new adopter' stuff and I couldn't get anything done (Louis rocks :)
- Charlie Anzman
I got the idea from Louis awhile back, but here's mine: http://del.icio.us/jessest... and for socialtoo: http://del.icio.us/jessest...
- Jesse Stay
those that link to vertical slice I tend to thank, I'll even come to them and offer to involve them in the show production at times by offering to involve their articles or creations. Sadly there's only one guy that does post some episodes to his blog that I'm aware of.
- alphaxion
Louis, what discovery tool do you use to find those linking to you? Google Alerts?
- Rick Bucich
We reward those who give our comic what we call a "Mighty Link", with a nice link back under the comic... http://www.geekculture.com/joyofte...
- Snaggy
PS - that question goes out to everyone else as well. I love the idea and use it to a degree but never in a systemic way. Do you think http://delicious.com is the ideal platform?
- Rick Bucich
Mike Fruchter started the same: http://delicious.com/mfrucht...
- Louis Gray
@Rick i prefer diigo... it allows you to build communities around the links
- andy brudtkuhl
Rick, Google Alerts are okay (not perfect). Technorati actually still does a better job.
- Louis Gray
Dang, I didn't even think of doing that, ok - off to go link love people. thanks!
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
But, i used to do the same thing back when i was a delicious user - http://delicious.com/48web...
- andy brudtkuhl
I also have FriendFeed post my delicious saves over to Twitter to further the reward
- Jesse Stay
Good to know, I'm a newb when it come to Technorati although i do have an account
- Rick Bucich
Andy, if you do link to me in every post, you'll probably lose readers. I dare you to try. :)
- Louis Gray
@Louis haha i doubt it .. everyone loves them some louis
- andy brudtkuhl
Does Technorati work for websites not on a blog platform? We have both
- Rick Bucich
Andy -- for example, should I bookmark this one? http://billolearysblog.blogspot.com/2009... Knowing that it will get redistributed, I'm less likely to. But I may comment there instead.
- Louis Gray
I'm going to do the same - Was thinking linking tweets as well, but then that would be too much...
- Bwana ☠
I love this! Way to rally the community!
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
A most valuable conversation thread indeed!
- tony obregon
I like the "coverage" tag idea. Must incorporate into my blog routine.
- Ms_Krista
Great Idea! Luis, how do you know who is linking to your Blog? I just linked to you ( http://bit.ly/4webways )
- frank barry
I got really excited when I noticed a link from louismg in delicious. I wondered why, as I don't write about anything social networking related. When I figured it out I started doing the same thing: _both_ sites which linked to me have some shiny delicious.com love from me. Heh.
- DGentry
i make cupcakes for each link and mail them to each person
- Allen Stern
I so never got my cupcakes! Maybe you should email 'em Allen ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'll link to them if I really like their blog, otherwise I stumble a post
- Kate
I delicious people who write about FriendBinder: http://delicious.com/rythie... sometimes I Twitter about them too or Digg them.
- Richard Cunningham
joined in with this idea too http://friendfeed.com/alphaxi...
- alphaxion
now if only i had my delicious bookmarks all organized like that.
- Alfredo
It's not too late Alfredo :D (or is it)
- Bwana ☠
idk take a look http://delicious.com/fredyga...
- Alfredo
Yeah your tags are ... how do you say... scattered :(
- Bwana ☠
aye, looks like you struck into the problem I did - you can't have multiple word tags unless you take out the space and bunch it into a single word. Not even quotes works
- alphaxion
Great strategy Louis, I am going to start doing a similar thing at http://delicious.com/garinki... only I am going to tag the Blog with whatever category it belongs to instead of "coverage"
- Garin Kilpatrick
Sounds like a plan to me! Will start implementing today!
- Mike Paul
So that's why one of my posts got a tweet from Louis Gray! That puzzled me a lot. Only now that I remember that I've linked to Louis in that post. Sweet! Nice touch. ",)
- jan geronimo
I stream my ego feed on Twitter
- Beth Kanter
I do something similar. When I notice incoming links, I share them in Google Reader. This ends up on Friendfeed, of course, and gets shared with the few folks who follow my GR. I have a sidebar feature on my personal blog set to pick up the gReader bookmarks and parse them as HTML, which Google indexes. Finally, I pipe my gReader shares to Twitter via Twitterfeed.
- Chris Baskind
Help! What about posting to SU vs. Delicious? i don't want to submit 2 things to my feed....ideas? should i just use delicious?
- Lawton Chiles
Lawton: I have accounts with SU and delicious but recommend using delicious because I find it more efficient, especially when used with the Firefox plugin.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Revisiting this old thread because it's so useful.
- Rick Bucich
What's the best place to find a directory of Hashtags? http://wthashtag.com/wiki... ?
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At http://twitterfall.com/ we link to http://hashmarksthespot.com but that's not community maintained so can be slower than others.
- Jalada
http://www.hashtags.org bien sûr
- sofarsoShawn
For the Toronto cru: http://barcamp.org/TorHashtags
- Lee Dale
Thanks for linking us up, Scoble. The WTH?! team appreciates it.
- Mike Templeton
I searched for DYSP and there were no matches. someone needs to add it :)
- Alfredo
@fredygamer the beauty of WTH?! is that you can add the page yourself, go to the following link and click "Edit this page" - http://wthashtag.com/wiki/Dysp
- Mike Templeton
Sofarsosean provided the one I was going to provide: http://www.hashtags.org/ which was built to view the #hashtags on Twitter.
- Nicholas James
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