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Re: Cyberpunk documentary

TheJennTafur — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:04:04 -0000

Google Video is being used a lot now. I am seeing more people use it to send me longer videos. Thank you for the documentary. Watching now. His glasses reminds me of Harry Potter (Harry Gibson). Is that a mullet he has? (hairstyle) Had to make u smile! (^_^) Dang, this was 1991 this was produced. I was still in high school when this came out. Thanks for sharing!

Re: minor jive

TheJennTafur — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:11:57 -0000

oh my..why do I find his suit a *minor* distraction. I really am trying to focus on the content but his suit is kinda irking me? Oh wait..Palin had an AFFAIR? I did not know that. Oh snap. I tuned in now. The dude is preaching. Hmm..7 years to get her Bachelor's DEGREE? Say WHAT?! Oh my God, I think I am adoring Pastor Bryant.

Re: minor jive

TheJennTafur — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:35:30 -0000

The mystery of Gov. Sarah Palin will continue to be unfolded to us through different individuals who are privy to information that the mainstream media will not either tap into or is not aware about or does not care to follow up on. This is the power of how blogging will open your eyes to another dimension of an individual.

I re-watched the clip and was mesmerized. Bryant is so calm and cool in his delivery that I am completely convinced that all that he shared in his 7:00 minutes on youtube.

I appreciate you tapping my shoulder and asking have I heard this. I now want to jump on over to Baltimore and go to his church. I actually am Pastor Bryant's friend on myspace here => http://www.myspace.com/past...

I am still shocked as to what he said. I wonder if mainstream media will explore this facts even more? This is a Dateline or 20/20 story right here!

Re: Welcome Back, Blogger...

TheJennTafur — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:14:54 -0000

Wow, you are very busy which is commendable. However, I have to read your past blogs to get up to speed! Thank you for following me on twitter! Now, I have more great resources to turn to when it comes to Web 2.0 information! 8) [TheJennTaFur from twitter here]

Re: Welcome Back, Blogger...

TheJennTafur — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:08:53 -0000

oopssseeeyyyy 8) I know I can be a little bit of a mess on twitter but that is really how I act. I appreciate you enjoying my voyage into the world with me for I have to find the humor in all that we experience in life. Thanks for your kind words too. You just made me chuckle. [[learyb]] = hugs

Re: Welcome Back, Blogger...

TheJennTafur — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:29:17 -0000

Preach..throughout this process I have met some very unstable individuals who have lashed out their dislike of themselves onto me. To get back, I throw humor on them and they cannot take it. So, I have learned to pray for the poor bastards and move on. My brain cells cannot be corrupted by some fuddy duddy! Keep it going my friend! See you online!

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Tony

TheJennTafur — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:51:16 -0000

LMAO for a minute I thought the kid was sucking his TOE!! Y'all are too cute!

Re: Bookshelf - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

TheJennTafur — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:14:14 -0000

Wow, I am intrigued to read the book especially for me as Washingtonian who is constantly mistaken for Ethiopian when I am visiting DC and when I am in New York City. I know the Logan Circle area of Washington, DC. Your review definitely has been on the hunt for the book!

Re: Bookshelf - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

TheJennTafur — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:16:57 -0000

Your review definitely intrigued me to run out and buy the book for I am constantly mistakened by the Ethiopian community as being a native of Ethiopia. This confusion in my identity began when I was a high school student living in Washington, DC and it continues today. My knowledge of the history of Ethiopia is not that strong but I know the basics of the country which may even confuse some Ethiopians when they meet me. I do not know the language though. I am getting the book. Thank you so much!

[This is TheJennTaFur from twitter here]

Re: Correction: The Mortgage Crisis Was Not a Minority Problem

TheJennTafur — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:31:56 -0000

I thik I am understanding this a little bit more. Thank you so much for helping. The newsweek article cleared up some questions I had. I appreciate the education.

Re: Correction: The Mortgage Crisis Was Not a Minority Problem

TheJennTafur — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:44:55 -0000

Thank for helping to clear up this situation to some of us like me who were confused with the crisis and the Clinton administration's involvement with it. That is what I had heard on CNN that minorities were to blame for on CNN they brought up this article here, Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Published: September 30, 1999 http://query.nytimes.com/gs... The Newsweek article and your response helps me understand the situation better. I appreciate you breaking it down for me.

Re: Hi, thanks for following me on Twitter…

TheJennTafur — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:02:16 -0000

I agree agree agree with everything that you said, Dave. I cannot take the generic one line "thanks for the following" in either an @reply or even a DM.

When you see that multiple times for a reply in one day especially when someone is not at their computer and that is all that you see in their twitter stream, it drives ME bonkers because I am on my computer literally all day and I see that robotic, non creative message all the time.

Whenever someone wants to add me and I see that, I feel bad but I decline but I have to do it for my own sanity. You know what is even worse? When people say, Hi @ _______ and it is about 10 names? I am like Lawd please NO!

For example, isn't this sort of funny?

http://twitter.com/bjork

I understand trying to connect but my goodness! : /

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Hi, thanks for following me on Twitter…

TheJennTafur — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:52:40 -0000

Oh LAWD..don't get me started on that. You know I don't own an iPhone nor a blackberry. When I am AWAY from my COMPUTER I don't want to be bothered.

I want to act like I don't have to have a nervous twitch every time my phone may buzz for email. However, although I have a FIRST model Razor phone, I swear I had to sign up for the text message package because sooo many people text me and I was getting charged for stuff I did not want.

I asked them, PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TEXT MESSAGES. I don't have a keypad like a blackberry and I am not going to respond.

NONE of my "friends" LISTENED to my plea and they continued to send me texts and FORWARDS to this day.

Should I charge them the monthly fee for this junk they send me? Then, with Barack Obama, he was about to BLOW UP my cell phone with stuff but then I realized I accidentally signed up for all this junk to be sent to my phone so I unsubscribed from all those lists.

I swear it's hard managing all this junk in the 21st century. **sighing** and **eye balls rolling!**

Thanks, Dave, for you are one of the few who understands this. I swear I want to be FREE from the distractions when I leave my little home office or office.

May I walk down the street and not see someone walk into poles and into pot holes because they are texting? I don't want to look like that fool! : /

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

TheJennTafur — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:33:31 -0000

I really think all of you should consider using rejaw if you have not been using it to see how it integrates everything that you said in this post but in a simple form. Only problem is to get people to move from friendfeed over to rejaw. I've been using twitter for a year and a half and friendfeed for the past year but I do prefer friendfeed. Only problem though is that not my core friends use friendfeed but they use twitter or plurk. We will see. Thank you for sharing your insight in this matter. Link for rejaw http://rejaw.com/ I have to thank @gwensutton for encouraging me to use it! By the way @gwensutton is @waynesutton's Mom!!

Re: Something is moving on Twitter

TheJennTafur — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:34:25 -0000

Wow, I have not seen this. Something I would think a younger generation would use. But, then people want to express themselves in a variety of ways. I think this may be a problem is you are a company twitter account and you have all this neon flashing avatar that is basically saying, "I AM [insert brand here] and LISTEN to what I saw because it is golden." If you are just a regular joe like me where you are not a company but being you then it may be okay but then you have to consider the people who are trying to impress (if you are trying to impress). I'm not a fan of the animated gif as it was said below, it is "myspaceish" but to me it is inappropriate if you are over the age of 13!! Just my personal opinion!

Re: Something is moving on Twitter

TheJennTafur — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:12:54 -0000

Totally agree and I think it cheapens the effect of what you may be trying to convey to whomever. Now, if you are a professional entertainer who wants to add some magic then maybe but otherwise naah. It would be interesting to see if any of these musicians who are on twitter would consider using the animated gif. Example - MC Hammer [He is on twitter here = http://twitter.com/mchammer]!!

If he had an animated gif of him doing the running man I would DIE laughing but then that is an old image of him. But, you never know.

Something to think about. I don't know. The more I think about the animated gif I think of all the visual artists that I follow? Hmm..possibly? But then again like you I don't want all that flash on my twitter stream especially with me following over 1000 people!

Be good! oxoox

Re: What Shaq, MC Hammer and Tim Ferris Can Teach Us About Social CRM

TheJennTafur — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:16:05 -0000

Excellent analysis for I have been observing more of the conversations of @wendyandlisa, @_maxwell_ and @qoolquest.

Both @wendyandlisa and @qoolquest will interact with their followers but @_maxwell_ follows no one. I found that sort of ODD considering he has an album coming out next year and he was doing a tour that I did go to (TWICE). However, I wonder why whoever handles his twitter account implemented that strategy? To me, that can cause some people to lose followers? I don't know but in the case of maxwell, his fans are still there (I am).

However, there is a dynamic that the celebrity twitter people may not be sharing. A lot of these celebrities have myspace pages and they use their myspace mood status to share information. Some may PING information from their mood status to attach to their twitter account or wherever they are (not to sure) but I am assuming this. Others like maxwell actually changes his mood status every week and it is different from time to time as to what is on twitter.

With @wendyandlisa, they recently updated their mood status to indicate that their record was on sale but I never really saw them use that mood status since I have been friends with them on myspace for the past month. I even see the 1 on one conversations that they have and they have been very receptive to me for I have shared how I am writing a legal article about the problems within the music business.

I was very thankful they keep that door of communication open. That is why I don't mind sharing with them what I find on the internet that may help them spread the word. It's all about relationships as we have always said.

Thanks for a great blog, Brent!

Re: What Shaq, MC Hammer and Tim Ferris Can Teach Us About Social CRM

TheJennTafur — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:16:52 -0000

Working on that case study! Plenty of juicy tid bits! xxo 8) It really is a step into how some us think too. You would be surprised of the things some people say. I must add I have added to the insanity and voyeurism. [the tweets I say are usually the 1st thing that comes to my mind and I always have 1 individual who wants to chat chat with me. It's wild!]

Makes you wonder is this a new way of expressing ourselves in words? Will this allow a new trend in expression. Twitter/myspace mood talk?! Or really it shows you how all of us are so needy for attention. That really has been the end result for me. I've seen it all 2 years almost working within both programs. It can be completely addictive.

Makes you wonder? You know how on the IM how we do LOL, smiley faces, etc. I see something else that I don't everyone else sees. It is wild to me.

Re: Plagiarism 2.0: A Tragic Case of BRM - Blogger Relationship Mis-management

TheJennTafur — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:16:09 -0000

Wow, the ethics in blogging and especially dealing with PR people continues to amaze me. No wonder PR agencies are given a bad name. I am so sorry this happened to you, Brent. This is why i advise when you are creating your own content to have a creative commons license on your blog. But, in some instances like this when it is blatant plagiarism you did the right thing which is to call them OUT like that. Shoot, I would even report them to the better business bureau saying that their business practices are questionable. It makes you wonder who really polices PR agencies if there is such a thing.

Just know that obviously you create content that others want but if they want it they would contact you and hire you to help them create a way of sharing information that is informative.

I am so sorry this happened to you! : /

Re: Why I Did Not Attend the Inauguration...And Have No Regrets

TheJennTafur — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:33:38 -0000

Amen. Though I was in Washington, DC where my parents live, we watched the events on television. My mother is 68 and my father is 73. Like you, both my parents grew up in Jim Crow, segregation and then integration. To share this time of the inauguration with them was priceless. They are a little fragile to be out in the cold for so long and that is why I opted to watch everything with them on tv although we did have tickets to stand for the inauguration. You did the right thing which was to share a historical event with those who mean the most to you.

Re: Why I Did Not Attend the Inauguration...And Have No Regrets

TheJennTafur — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:05:06 -0000

We love our are parents. It meant m ore for me to be with them than with friends who don't understand all the historical lessons my parents taught me. Knowing my mother was denied to use the same bathroom as a white person just blew my mind. Knowing my mother was told the highest level she could reach in her profession was to be a teacher or a social worker was enough to keep that rage in her to defy the odds and become the second black woman to pass the Florida Bar exam which allowed her to practice law in the state (1965). My father had his issues too being a black man from the midwest who only had a few hopes until he met my mother who pushed him into another orbit of thinking outside of the box which allowed him to work with President Nixon as one of the few blacks with the Small Business Administration. To every person in the USA, who was told they could not do something because of their race, religious background, gender or whatever this inauguration meant something to them. I have hope for a better tomorrow! xoxo

Re: Dale Carnegie 2.0 - Winning Friends and Influencing People on the Web

TheJennTafur — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:34:25 -0000

Traditional values will always win over anyone. Thank you for sharing. I am thankful for Dale Carneige for putting his old fashion social skill values to text over 70 years ago. Old methods do work if you trust them and not question them so much!

Re: Fighting the Recession: Cutting Costs While Collaborating More Online

TheJennTafur — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:35:16 -0000

Honestly, I still don't think some companies and brands *get* the internet aspect of advertising. It's almost as if they are afraid to venture out and see what it is all about. It's more than having a website but establishing relationships with their customers. Thank you for sharing.

Re: How Clint Eastwood, Rakim, Morris Day and Public Enemy Helped Me Land on Digg's Front Page

TheJennTafur — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:40:25 -0000

Next time you need some tunes, make sure you play them through (scrobe them) www.last.fm and add me as a friend there (I'm 2Serenity there), I am constantly inspired and meet people all around the world there. It is a highly addictive website that may give you more reasons to be inspired! Yay!

Re: Me, Myself and My Avatar

TheJennTafur — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:41:15 -0000

Wow, I love this. Thank you for sharing how your avatar may take you places : D