• Monday, March 16th, 2009
Wow!
That’s the word for day two – just WOW!
For me day two was more about meeting great people and learning about great tools than anything else.
Of course the highlight for the day was that Rhea Drysdale (@Rhea) decided it was safe to follow me on Twitter, even though every time she looked over her left shoulder, there I was. It was really great to meet you Rhea!
Matt Cutts of Google fame also chatted with a few of us about his recent weight loss success and shared his secret to success. It’s hard to believe, but apparently if you exercise and eat more fruits and vegetables, it’s good for you. Who knew?
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• Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I may be the world’s worst note taker – I always have good intentions, and as the speakers are talking everything seems so clear to me, I just jot down a few words and phrases…thinking that later I’ll remember what the hell was going on when I wrote it down. I never can remember, I should by a recorder. This is a very brief, quick & dirty recap. If you want more info, well – fly to Austin next time. Just kidding – there are about 400 people in attendance, finding a detailed review should not be a problem.
Here a tweet, there a tweet, everywhere a tweet tweet
Day one of PubCon was like a huge Tweet-up. Every session I was in somehow managed to bring it. If the presenters didn’t then an attendee or two would ask a question about how it would apply to whatever was being discussed. I don’t know how many people were tweeting from the crowd, but #PubCon was trending on Twitter for a good part of the day, and mid afternoon the two T-1s feeding the data to the show were overwhelmed and people had a hard time getting a good connection.
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• Monday, March 09th, 2009
What is a blog carnival?
What’s a social media blog carnival you ask? It’s a weekly online event where people submit and nominate great blog articles about social media, new media practices, theory and statistics and the best are chosen by the weekly judge (that would be ME this week!) and results are posted on New Media Lab. I’m looking forward to seeing the results from the other judges each week, this should be a lot of fun – and a great way to find some sites we may not see otherwise.
How are winners picked?
Since I have the privilege of being the first host in the resurrected carnival, I’ll explain how we’ll be evaluating the submitted blogs. Naturally, we want to make sure that everyone gets a fair shake, regardless of which of the ten judges evaluates them. To assist with this, we’ve created a grading scale that we use while reviewing. The 55 point scale scale assigns points in seven categories.
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• Sunday, March 08th, 2009
That was the question I set out to answer one day last week. Well, sort of anyway.
I’m sure most of you are well aware of the hullabaloo caused by the recent move made by Mars/Skittles that converted Skittles.com from a traditional web site to a mashup of social media sites, incorporating content from Facebook, wikipedia, YouTube and Twitter. The overall success of the social experiment has been debated widely; some seem to think it was brilliant, others feel it is ridiculous mistake to place control of a brand’s voice into the hands of the general public at large. Regardless of which camp you are in, all seem agree that it took considerable courage. Understandably, word of the new site spread like wildfire. Before long, nearly everyone on Twitter was sending messages with “#skittles” in them, just to see if they would show up on the site. I began seeing people comment in my “twitter stream” about what others had written just to get listed on the skittles page. I realized that people were not just looking for their own tweets, but were actually reading what others had written – score one for the skittles team.
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