This is a guest post by Jimi Jones. Welcome to Social Media Notebook, Jimi!
Life online is grand, I’ve had a long running love affair with this digital environment. What could be more fun than travelling around the internet and engaging people from all walks of life, while sharing creative ways to get things done?
Social media is a work-while-you-play environment where you can visit the domains of others and spread some knowledge and …
A few days ago, Mike Cliffe-Jones had a post on his blog – Why businesses shouldn’t be on Twitter. Of businesses should be, and that is exactly what Mike meant.
The key message that Mike wanted to deliver was:
The thing with Twitter is that it’s so personal, so individual.
Look at some of the other successful Twitter accounts, and you’ll see that there is almost always a person behind the tweets.
I think …
There’s a joke that keeps making circles in the software development world:
At a recent software engineering management course in the US the participants were given an awkward question to answer. “If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software how many of you would disembark immediately?”
Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat motionless. When asked what
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This last week, Seth Godin made it official that he is moving away from the conventional book publishing world. Linchpin would be the last book he would publish the conventional way.
One of the key reasons Seth cites behind this decision is the realization that his true customers are not the readers – they are the publishers who accept the manuscript and get the book published, printed, distributed and commercialized. That’s a pretty valid …
It began with a simple tweet last Friday from Johnny Laird:
In his own words -
Sometimes the 140 characters can’t do it justice, so this is my expanded version….
Johnny followed it up with a blog post with a more detailed write up on who his recommendations for Follow Friday were going to be. I think that’s a neat idea.
A bunch of others who posted comments on Johnny’s post also think that …
Last night, I was shortlisting my fantasies. Now before I start giving you ideas, let me elaborate a bit more on that
I’m referring to the fantasies everyone in the social web has about their social media world … the social media fantasies!
Here’s the list that I came up with:
1. RSS Subscribers: What’s a good number to go with? Brian Clark of CopyBlogger has 125K.
2. Confirmed Email Optins: That’s one number …
Two weeks ago, Twitter launched their official Tweet button. That, in my opinion, was landmark launch – because it fundamentally changes the way we look at Twitter sharing and the numbers that get associated with the tweets. Other applications like TweetMeme and Topsy have been doing this for over an year now, but this change is nevertheless important for the reasons I am going to discuss below.
A few days back, I wrote about the importance of having social sharing turned on your blogs. Not only is it essential – it’s almost a defacto minimum requirement for any blog these days.
Now I know there are blogs which do not have social sharing turned on – the blogs of Leo Babauta and Seth Godin are two huge examples. But hey, if you are Leo or Seth, you don’t need social sharing anyways …
As summer 2010 comes to an end (here in California), I wanted to do something different today. It’s time for some summer fun – and catching the last golden summer days before the colors of fall set in.
You’ve probably guessed it by now – but Social Media Notebook is here to stay. We’re past the first fifty posts – and I’m looking forward to filling up many more notebooks over the coming months
It’s …
One of the books that had a profound impact on me during my college years was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Dr. Stephen Covey. It’s one of those books which one cannot read without emerging enlightened from.
One of the concepts that Dr. Covey talks about is Private Victories.
Todd Wangsgard, a Franklin Covey teacher and mentor wrote a very memorable paragraph about private victories:
The Private Victory
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