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The most powerful changes of my last few years came from one realization: there are no locks, no gates. In doing all that I’ve accomplished, it’s come from the repeated situation of doing something I wanted to try, making lots of mistakes, fixing the mistakes, and suddenly being at the core of something really useful. I st (Read More)
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
Photo by Chris John BeckettSean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”on the Philanthropy411 blog. I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend).Sean takes a point of view:I think that technology and social media in pa (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Social Media is everywhere these days. In the past 6 months, I must have signed up to dozens of social media sites, used them once or twice and then abondoned then to the box of neglected toys. The onslaught started slowly. We made friendster/MySpace/Facebook profiles, some of us started personal blogs, we got digg, del.ici (Read More)
: I would venture to say that what is noise to one may in fact be signal to another: personally, I get tired of slogging through all the tech feeds to find the 5% that are useful for work and perhaps 5% that interest me personally. But then again, that's what I've got Yahoo pipes for: to help me filter the noise before it ever gets to me. Don't see why one couldn't go the same route to filter, say, an unwanted Twitter follower.
: @nigelwalsh @isthisstupid Merge them and filter them when you do! I like the notion of a signal to noise ratio, and I also remember not to pigeon hole. Some fool might be mostly noisy (mostly cloudy?), but as the good Bard has helped us to know: often the fool says the most profound thing.
It's possible that the one signal from a noisy "friend" might surpass the many signals from a guru.
Business Week
The word Entrepreneur holds a certain level of mystique in our society. On a daily basis we are reminded of the entrepreneurs who have started with nothing only to rise to celebrity status. Or maybe we see our next door neighbor who, while not a celebrity, has done very well for themselves starting and running small busines (Read More)
Kevin's shared items in Google Reader
If Google Reader wants to be the new FriendFeed, this is what I need: (in no particular order)1. Lists - I want to group my contacts in a better way, like FF.2. Saved searches - I want to search just my comments, my likes etc. etc.3. Real Time, enough said.4. A better bookmarklet, like FF's where I can post pictures for an (Read More)
: #1 Lists - you can already do this with folders. Just like any other feed, you can add a contact's shared items to a folder (or multiple folders). It will then show in "People you follow" and in the folder. (BTW add me to a group so I can comment directly instead of sharing it again)
Conversation Agent
Don Draper is not who he says he is. The same could be said for his colleagues and their spouses. There's a lot more to the story plot than meets the eye. What people like most about the characters in Mad Men is that they may be cads (male and female), but they're not a bunch of pussies. The audience loves the fact that th (Read More)