Aug 22, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last week, in my role as community manager for FeaturedUsers, I interviewed Guy Kawasaki for our #FollowFriday series. We talked about the startup economy, his books, Alltop, and how to get a standing ovation.As if that wasn’t cool enough, I got to test out Wetoku, which is a sweet little embeddable app for doing online [.. (Read More)

Aug 20, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last March, Bijoy Goswami and I sat down for a fascinating (and lengthy) conversation about mental models and bootstrapping at Progress Coffee on Austin’s East Side. The interview was recorded and transcribed, and we’ve broken it up into a four-part series for the blog. While preparing it for publication, Bijoy and I both f (Read More)

Aug 19, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last March, Bijoy Goswami and I sat down for a fascinating (and lengthy) conversation about mental models and bootstrapping at Progress Coffee on Austin’s East Side. The interview was recorded and transcribed, and we’ve broken it up into a four-part series for the blog. While preparing it for publication, Bijoy and I both f (Read More)

Aug 18, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last March, Bijoy Goswami and I sat down for a fascinating (and lengthy) conversation about mental models and bootstrapping at Progress Coffee on Austin’s East Side. The interview was recorded and transcribed, and we’ve broken it up into a four-part series for the blog.While preparing it for publication, Bijoy and I both fe (Read More)

Aug 17, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last March, Bijoy Goswami and I sat down for a fascinating (and lengthy) conversation about mental models and bootstrapping at Progress Coffee on Austin’s East Side. The interview was recorded and transcribed, and we’ve broken it up into a four-part series for the blog.While preparing it for publication, Bijoy and I both fe (Read More)

Aug 03, 2009

Steve's shared items in Google Reader It’s not something that will likely place on Twitter’s (largely redundant and abused) trending topics feature, but we’re now starting to see what I think will increasingly become a major focal point for all serious Twitter users over the next few weeks and months – network optimisation.Robert Scoble is doing it. Chris Broga (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: I stopped in at Progress Coffee this morning for a latte and a fruit cup with yogurt. Progress is one of my favorite East Side establishments. Their coffee is stellar, and they have a jalapeno breakfast biscuit that makes my mouth water just thinking about it. While waiting for my coffee I looked down and noticed [...]. (Read More)

Jul 24, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: Last April my friend Dusty approached me with an offer: he was too busy to handle the FeaturedUsers Twitter stream on his own. How would I feel about posting tweets, replying to followers, and generally monitoring the stream? It sounded like an interesting gig (and he was willing to pay me for it), so I [...]. (Read More)

Jul 22, 2009

The Guardian State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculumThe Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if i (Read More)

Jan 22, 2009

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Jul 22, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8 from blog: So I’m totally addicted to the Printable CEO Time Management sheets by David Seah, which I rediscovered this week. One of the suggested methods is to set a timer every 15 minutes. When it goes off, you make a note of what you’ve been doing during that time period. It helps keep me on track, [...]. (Read More)

Jul 19, 2009

Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools If you’re a “social media consultant” working with clients then you are probably going to be able to relate with a few things in this post.  The tough part about social media at this stage is that companies don’t know what they want and they don’t know what to expect from working with a team, consultancy, agency, etc in soc (Read More)

Jul 06, 2009

Influential Marketing Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or p (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Submitted by Orchid8: The students can also test their knowledge in the Virtual Respiratory Ward by interviewing patient avatars, ordering tests, diagnosing problems, and recommending treatment. 'The real innovation in SL clinical simulations is that they bring people together in a clinical space — you are standing next to an avatar who is a rea (Read More)

Jul 19, 2009

The Future Buzz Looks like some of the early adopter crowd are waking up from their Twitter-induced dreams.There are several conversations around the web about it this week, but I’ll sum the reasons you should blog and not just Tweet simply:  microblogging (or any social platform where you don’t control the rules)  doesn’t replace the powe (Read More)

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