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Re: Why My6sense: Right Time, Right Place, Right Context

Bill Paulk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:06:49 -0000

Congratulations Louis! I'm a fan of your writing as well as the great content you share via Google Reader. On that note, can you discuss how this service compliments GReader? I see you still share 15-20+ items daily in GReader. Do you maintain 2 RSS interfaces now? I want to avoid that, want to share, but would like to experience my6sense's technology without double dipping unnecessarily. Thank you again!

Re: This is why I work at Rackspace

Bill Paulk — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:29:28 -0000

Thank you for finding & sharing this video, Robert. A good part of my income comes from an "incentivized" commission structure, which tends to push my passions further from my daily actions and closer to my pocketbook. Can makes for restless nights. I liked your post, as well as Dan Pink's preso...and thought the animation was kick-ass. Thank you again!

Re: Alumni Associations = Twitter FAIL -- Part2

Bill Paulk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:08:24 -0000

KAJ, I like it! I think that sort of use (promoting networking, bring alumni together, etc) is an excellent use of Twitter that will bring value to alumni who follow! And while RTs are great (I don't understand all of Mikey's formula), clearly not the end of the world.

Re: Alumni Associations = Twitter FAIL -- Part2

Bill Paulk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:34:01 -0000

Mikey,
Why Twitter, indeed.

Aside from strategy, I'm curious *why* someone would choose to follow their alumni association (or another official university/college twitter feed). In Facebook, you can be a 'fan' of an organization, and it appears on your homepage like a funny little badge of honor, and you can then invite people to also be a fan (I personally find much of that pretty obnoxious, but I'm only working on one cup of coffee). Twitter doesn't have that functionality. So when an alumni follows, what, do you think, are they hoping to get out of it?

This occurs to me because of your most recent comments, that an AA should be compared to a brand rather than a person. I completely agree. And the alumni on Twitter know this, don't they? It's unlikely to think when they follow their alma mater that they think they'll be engaging with, say, the school president (in the same way that if I follow Apple I doubt Steve Jobs is manning that feed). And to that end, would the constituency at large even *want* to follow the president?

Do the alumni followers out there expect any more from their alumni than the one-way school-centric news that seems to dominate most association feeds?