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A couple of weeks ago I shared that I wanted to work directly with a local company. Since then many people have been asking me about my next steps. I am pleased to share today that I will be starting June 9th as Senior Manager Social Media Marketing at Webtrends. In that role, I [...]
The first dot com bust aligns almost perfectly with the generally accepted inflection point between web 1.0 and web 2.0. Economic forces killed tired business models in favor of new and better ones. Well, here we are again. Economic forces are threatening to kill off many 2.0 businesses in favor of tech that improves [...]
In June the NY Times reported that the average information worker is distracted for 28% of their day. Unstructured email communication makes it difficult to stay focused. I know I loose focus daily from some of these email offenses:
Rambling thought dumps
The “FYI” atop a monster string of replys
The CYA email that the sender incorrectly [...]
Socialtext delivered version 3.0 of their software today, and announced Signals, which will be part of their 3.5 release. Signals is a micro messaging service that goes beyond copying and pasting Twitter behind the firewall, and the reason for much of my excitement.
In an increasingly crowded market, content management just isn’t that compelling anymore. [...]
I’ve been caught in the difficult position of trying to explain what I do more times than I care to recall. I tell people I work in social media, which almost always requires an explanation. For years, I’ve put social media up against “traditional media” as a point of reference. That comparison has been [...]
Oh man am I looking forward to this Saturday’s WordCamp!! @ahockley and crew have really pulled together something special. Jane from Wordpress will be there to give us an early look at Wordpress 2.7. How sweet is that!?! The famous Lorelle will be there!! Local blogging superstars Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb and Rick Turoczy [...]
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It’s interesting watching the various people in my life react when I talk about different web services. Some of the more controversial services I talk about are Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook. I get reactions like, “Eww, you’re on Twitter??” and “Facebook just isn’t what it used to be.”
Some [...]
This comic was adapted from xkcd. Check out Sam’s sweet round up of historical naysaying around tools we now take for granted like internet access and email.
Since the first person tapped social media for commercial gain, there have been daily bus loads of fresh faces to call bullshit. Media calls it hype. Senior managers [...]
I’ve helped dozens of people join the social web. I’ve helped my friends and family as well as C-level executives. While everyone has unique needs during their development process, they all seem to go through three stages of growth:
Skills
Focus
Enlightenment
The purpose of this post is to provide some reference for people going through this learning [...]
Much of the hype around Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and the social web is focused on the technological elements of these emerging spaces. While the technological knowledge required to participate socially online feels like a big deal, once you get over that hurdle you’ll find yourself in much bigger topic space—one that we are [...]
I am the founder of Beer and Blog. I love the Internet, drums, socializing, and a good Scotch. I like go karts, R/C helicopters, and snowboarding. My wife, Christine, and I have two cute dogs and we all live in Portland, OR. We think Portland is awesome.