Big Idea magazine covers the communications arts community of the upper Midwest. About a month ago, managing editor Kate Grace started a conversation on the big idea dialogue forums about using weblogs as a marketing tool. I posted a couple thoughts, touching on how weblogs are the easiest way to engage customers and start having [...]
On Tuesday, July 12th, I’ll be evangelizing podcasts, wikis, RSS, and weblogs as part of MN-ASIS’s “And Now for Something Completely Different” brain food sampler series. Date & Time: 5:00 – 6:30 Tuesday July 12 (speaker starts at 5:30) Place: Pad Thai 1659 Grand Ave just west of Macalester College RSVP atreacy@ treacyinfo.com that you’ll [...]
For the past 3 years local documentary film maker Chuck Olsen has been self-financing and self-producing the 65 minute documentary of weblogging, Blogumentary. Recently another weblog documentary project started, interviewing some of the same people Chuck interviewed. Not a bad thing except the word blogumentary is being used throughout the site without reference to Chuck’s [...]
For those of you unable to make to MIMA’s Web 2.0 Salon on the 18th, I’ve made the recording available as part of the First Crack podcast. Thanks to MIMA, Jim Cuene, all of you that provided on-mic comments and the more than 100 attendees for a great event.
If you haven’t gotten into podcasting yet, it’s just become easier. As part of the newly released PodcastMN.com – The Sound of Minnesota, Tim from winecast.net set up a pre-loaded iPodder. For you, that means, just download the Windows or Macintosh version and you’ll automatically receive the current 14 PodcastMN podcasts.
It’s Friday. Time for some random links… More Nifty Corners is an updated article and set of code for creating rounded boxes without the use of any images and, if you use the javascript method, without any extraneous markup in your HTML either. This new version adds more browser support, options for rounding only some [...]
Jim Cuene noticed Forrester has finally followed Jupiter Research into using weblogs to increase their analysts’ reputations and GoogleJuice. I agree with 2.5 of Jim’s 3 suggestions for both Forrester and Jupiter. ‘Go out on a Limb’ and ‘Allow Comments’, both of these reinforce the ‘your readers know more than you’ notion. This notion builds [...]
Our speaker will be Jenny Levine, Internet Development Specialist at the Suburban Library System in Burr Ridge, IL. Also known as The Shifted Librarian, Jenny writes her own weblog – check it out at www.theshiftedlibrarian.com. Jenny earned her MLS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1992 and from there has been a leader in [...]
Technorati.com’s goal is to have a finger on the pulse of the blogosphere. A few weeks back, they released this idea of ‘tags’. Tagging posts first hit my radar with Flickr, the photo sharing site. In Flickr, people add free-form tags to their photos creating a bottom-up, grassroots taxonomy or folksonomy. The end result is [...]
Last year when we first launched MNteractive, it was running on phpiCalendar for the calendar. For a while, it worked really well. There was a master calendar in my iCal populating all your iCals and this website. A few months back, phpiCalendar stopped spitting things to the website. When I went to their site to [...]