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Thoughts and things I care to sharelinks for 2007-12-14
- !? So, nobody will notice the trillions transmissions we’ve sent into space over the last 100+ years from radio, television, satellite, cellular, shortwave, and other communications devices? Give me a f***ing break – I hope I can stop laughing.
links for 2007-12-13
- Looks like SP1 for office 2k7 arrived a little early.
- Well, it had to happen – at least I’m not surprised. Personally, I think that Robert has much more that he wants to do – I think he’ll be off on his own in a few short years
- Use this Greasemonkey script to tweet on Twitter from Google Reader.
- Cool stuff I just wanted to bookmark. 🙂
links for 2007-12-12
- Jeremiah Owyang has a great post on Twitter and social media. Good read.
- It’s not all hype – there is truth in the idea. I believe my biggest social media tool is my personal blog.
- A good counter point to the Twittermania that was yesterday.
Social Media Resume | Comments
This is a partial solution to a question that’s been in my mind for some time. Since I created a Social Media Resume (SMR) a few months back, the point that I didn’t enable comments directly on the page has been bothering me.
Part of the reason for that is because I wanted to keep the resume page, clean and under control. However, a “Social Media Resume” by definition requires interaction – some kind of social aspect. Without that component, it’s merely a multi-media resume.
So this post will be the catch-all for the comments on the resume page – I’ll add a link to add a comment which will bring people to this page. So if you’ve got a comment on my SMR, by all means – leave one below!
Want to check it out: Rick Mahn | A Social Media Resume
The great Jeremiah Owyang Twitter expansion of 2007
I want to thank Jeremiah Owyang for his Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter blog post earlier today. It gave literally hundreds of people the opportunity to find new people to interact with.
The post went up sometime before 10am (Central Time), and Jeremiah Tweeted about the post on Twitter shortly thereafter. Within just a few minutes, there were over 20 comments on this post with people giving feedback and sharing their Twitter profile links, inviting others to follow them and join in their conversation.
Within three hours the comment count had climbed to over 160 with more streaming in constantly. This desire to interact, to connect, share ideas, and communicate is nothing new, but what followed on Twitter is the bigger story.
We can talk numbers, and its at least someplace to start. For example I found nearly 100 new people to follow, and about 80 people have chosen to follow my Twitter postings. Fellow Twitters had similar experiences today and in some cases doubled their follower counts.
However, what’s at the root of this enormous expansion in Twitter following is the desire to build community. To interact with more people, from different places and expand our peer networks. The numbers are simply a statistic to track, but the real important part is that I was able to find 100 or more interesting, intelligent, fun people that I wanted to add to my daily or weekly conversations. I’m also flattered to have so many people interested in what I bring to the table as well.
The net result for the next few days will be learning how to deal with a fire hose of Twitters, a constant barrage of information. Currently I’m trying to read as much as possible as it passes by, but I’m quickly learning to skim and watch for the topics I should read and not absorb it all.
The post itself is a great piece about why Twitter is a useful tool, and should be read simply on it’s own. But I bet if you go read the post, the comments will pull you in and soon you too will be a part of the community-building exercise that has morphed out of a good blog post.
By the way, at the time of this writing, there were in excess of 300 commenter’s, sharing and building their communities. Are you?
Getting my social (back) on
Where did my social media efforts get off track? That is something that I’ve been trying to understand these last few months. Whether writers block, or busy with work, moving, family time, or whatever; I’ve lost track of what I was trying to accomplish in my social media efforts.
This is rather troubling to me since I seem to have lost focus somewhere back in September. I’ve rethought my topics time and again, got sidetracked reading the feeds I thought I enjoyed, and failing to use the time I did have available to me to good effect. The result is that I’ve floundered.
This post is not a declaration of a new direction, nor is it a launchpad of new resolutions to do better or post more, etc… It is, however, a post about how blogging can get away from you, and how social media can be a bit overwhelming without a least some kind of plan.
Now, the plan thing really starts to make more sense. While I’ve been blogging for awhile (three years this month), I really hadn’t had a clear focus on the why of it all. Because of that lack of definition, I’ve started and dropped several blogs. I currently have three, two of which are languishing in the dim corners of my mind crying out for content.
Without a plan, you may wander like I have from topic to topic, trying to find inspiration that would drive me to write more, share more and have fun doing it. Two of my blogs are on things that I’ve always been passionate about. Snowmobiling and mobile devices. But even that hasn’t helped me post on a regular basis or create media to support the blogs and make them interesting.
What I’ve found in the past year and a half (or so) is that I’ve become very interested in topics that I’ve no training in, no previous knowledge of. However, they have pushed me to grow in ways that I never thought of and for that I’m grateful. These topics are personal branding and social media.
So, I’m just going to “hunker down”, as it were, and keep working my way through to where I seemed to be.
Interesting aside when I was trying to wrap up this post. Jeremiah Owyang had a great post in Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter today. I wrote more on Twitter in 4 hours than I had in the whole month of November on all blogs and social sites combined. More on that topic later, but it demonstrates how one event can change things.
links for 2007-12-11
- Chris points out that we leverage the tools for our personal social media power.
- Bryan Person talks about the social media resume, with a link to his. Heck, you can find mine at https://rickmahn.com/resume.
Monday, Monday
And it is. As with most things that "go wrong", it’s usually self-induced. Today I realized after placing the "work" laptop into the port replicator that I somehow mucked up the system last Friday.
I do remember what I did too! I was working on one of my test distribution systems and created a Windows PE (a special version of Windows used by companies and hardware vendors to install Windows itself) boot CD, and during the process accidentally installed the boot files on my work laptop!
I knew it when I did it and I should’ve taken the 30 minutes right then that afternoon to correct my mistake. But alas, I thought I’d take care of it in the morning… this morning to be exact. Of course, I had 2 days to forget all about it too!
Anyway, happy Monday folks.
links for 2007-12-10
- Steve Ruble’s post in tribute to Marc Orchant.
- Don’s take on the weekend blog meme on enterprise software and how un-sexy it is.
- Robert Scoble gets the enterprise-software-isn’t-sexy meme off to a grand start this past weekend.
- Om asks some good questions about the buildout costs of a 700MHz network here in the U.S.
- Interesting? Or not? Not as sexy as some Apple projects, but this is what Microsoft does well.
Online music choices – where’s the choice?
I talked about this a little over a year ago. I was pretty gung-ho about URGE, the music service offered by MTV and Microsoft. It seamlessly integrated into Windows Media Player 11, could be used on up to 3 computers, and sync tunes to both my Windows Mobile smartphone, and my wife’s Nokia 5300 XpressMusic as well as other "Plays for Sure" WMA media devices.
At the time, things transpired that I didn’t "pull the trigger" on the service. Now I’m glad I didn’t. Real’s Rhapsody has absorbed URGE and all the reasons I was looking at the service have evaporated. The devices I would like to use are "possibly" supported, I have to install *another* media player, and I have to manually copy the music to the devices.
Too much bullshit.
I’ll stick with buying the actual, physical CD-ROM of the artist in question and ripping the audio tracks to lossless WMA. Disk space is cheap – 1TB for $100 – and I have been using Orb for some time to spread my digital media where I want it. I’ll continue to do so.
This is the kind of crap that online services are going to do to their customer base. I can’t use the service based on their offerings, I need a service that caters to my wants and needs. I’ll keep my cash and spend it directly on the artist in question.
Maybe you’ve already figured this out, maybe you’re content with the offerings and wonder why I can’t see the value in it. I can see the potential value in online music services, but it has to be on my terms – not theirs.
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Out riding this rainy, wet spring. Got 1,000 miles on the clock with more to come this season. #IMRG #IndianMotorcycle
Watching early seasons of #GoldRush. Fun seeing @GoldrushRick in season 3! Hope his new season is off to a good start!
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