by Tris Hussey on December 1, 2009 · 2 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Business blogs, Create Your Own Blog, Lifestreaming, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0
Yes, I’ve been posting more here lately. It seems that my blogging has run in fits and starts of late. Part of the issue, I think, has been the diversity of places I could publish to, coupled with lots of projects on the go I didn’t publish enough. So for the past few week I’ve been publishing more and the traffic results are clear:
It doesn’t matter what the actual numbers are, because it’s a matter of scale. It’s the same thing I told the bloggers at b5media and teach my [...]
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When Twitter added lists not only was there a race to build (and get on) lists, but Twitter clients to add support for them. Over the past few weeks I’ve watched Hootsuite, Nambu, and others add Twitter Lists support all the while waiting for my favourite Twitter tool, TweetDeck to add support. This morning the wait is over and I think TweetDeck has upped the ante for all Twitter clients, and they did it by making themselves less essential, but more valuable at the same time.
One of the things I’ve [...]
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I have to admit, while got into Google Wave early, I haven’t done much with it. Why? Because it was yet another tool that was demanding my attention, but not really giving back.
I had some early success with brainstorming for my current BCIT class, but since then? I do wander by Wave (using Waveboard), but not for long. I don’t think I’ve quiet got the information flow down right. So with that in mind … Look, Mashable is talking about newspapers and the MSM using Wave to discuss and work [...]
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A friend of mine here in Vancouver wrote a really insightful post about social media here in Vancouver. While the larger point of the post is more of a social commentary, there is a part that applies here:
In FACT, I should be MORE relevant. Why? Because I care about social media for two reasons — it’s social, and it’s media. I’m reaching out. For me, being READ is more important than selling adspace, even when I’m killing myself trying to just get by, let alone pay down debt. I don’t [...]