Social Networking

Fifty-two years: Technology, social media, and me (and you)

July 4th, 2011 by alephnaught

Fifty-two years: Technology, social media, and me (and you)

I turned 52 today; I’ve seen over a half century of some of the most amazing changes in our world. I remember when we started locking our outside doors … when I was 6. Milk and potato chips were delivered to our basement door every week. There was no voice mail or answering machines or […]

Recap of the #140conf in Los Angeles

October 8th, 2010 by alephnaught

Recap of the #140conf in Los Angeles

I arrived at the Henry Ford Music Box Theatre 15 minutes before registration – I’ve lived in LA long enough to know you leave early if you want to make sure you arrive on time, thank you LA traffic. The theatre is a very cool place; I was most impressed with the interior, which is […]

TriMirror – Crowdsourcing fashion

October 3rd, 2010 by alephnaught

TriMirror – Crowdsourcing fashion

I found TriMirror (http://www.trimirror.com/), or perhaps it found me, thanks to @Bellpopping.  I’ve been dabbling in fashion related web stuff for a while now – I was a beta member of Swirl and I’ve started watching the Rachel Zoe Project and subscribed to her newsletter, among other bits. When Basya suggested I take a look […]

Like button stamp

June 30th, 2010 by alephnaught

Like button stamp

Nation, a design studio, decided to make Like and Dislike rubber stamps that mimic the Like button from Facebook. When I saw them, I had to have them, so I ordered them. And they arrived today – here’s a sample: I can’t wait to stamp a paper at work with the Like stamp!

The #140conf LA meetup May 10

May 10th, 2010 by alephnaught

The #140conf LA meetup May 10

I finally had time to crank up Photoshop and clean up pictures I took with my new iPhone. I had a great time, although I didn’t meet everyone I wanted to meet at the event; I did get to use the Bump app (thanks Linda!) and did meet some fun folks. And the speakers were […]

Facebook Connect: Without an SLA, can you trust it with your business?

April 22nd, 2010 by alephnaught

Facebook Connect: Without an SLA, can you trust it with your business?

I was just listening to a SpoolCast podcast, “SpoolCast: Moving Beyond Static Forms with Luke Wroblewsk.” Mr. Wroblewski talked about the value of Facebook Connect in speeding up and simplifying the form-based process for registration, especially for social media web sites. This reminded me of a huge issue I just had with Facebook, one that […]

December 30th, 2009 by alephnaught

Why unfollowing everyone is un-Twitter

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think @ev is wrong; I think unfollowing almost everyone is a bad idea. Let’s say you only follow a few people; why should a lot of people follow you? Because you tweet good content? That turns Twitter into a broadcast medium, which I think would […]

How @purplehayz tweets

December 24th, 2009 by alephnaught

How @purplehayz tweets

Introduction This post was started because I get asked regularly if I ever sleep. I do, typically from 10P Pacific time til about 4:30A each night (regular sleep hours are best after all). But, you might not know that if you look at my tweet stream, since I have tweets happening at all hours of […]

October 25th, 2009 by alephnaught

Repaired Artwalk Badge code

I really dig Artwalk and wanted to add the new badge to my website, but the code didn’t work – you should be able to copy the code below and paste it into your site: <a title="Artwalk" href="http://artwalk.tv" mce_href="http://artwalk.tv" target="_blank"><br /> <img src="http://www.kimsherrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ArtwalkBadge.jpg" mce_src="http://www.kimsherrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ArtwalkBadge.jpg" alt="ArtwalkBadge" width="234" height="360" /></a><a title="Artwalk" href="http://artwalk.tv" mce_href="http://artwalk.tv" target="_blank"><br /> <img src="http://www.kimsherrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ArtwalkBadge.jpg" […]

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June 21st, 2009 by alephnaught

A quick, incomplete guide to social networking tools for business

Social networking is hot.  Businesses see value in improving how team members work together: “Internal social networking platforms more valuable to organizations” .  There are a number of possible approaches; the best choice depends on what problems you want to address first, the size of the business, and the availability of internal Information Technology staff […]