Disqus - Friends of maayanroman

Re: Scaling Yourself

Brett Borders — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:24:20 -0000

Chris,

I have just started working from home and I am realizing that I would need 56 hours in a day to do HALF of what I'd like to. Thanks for these great insights and tips.

Re: What the Social Web Looked Like in the 1990s

Brett Borders — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:10:02 -0000

Hey... you guys scraped my article! Tsk, Tsk...

Re: Pitching Guy Kawasaki in an Elevator

Brett Borders — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:31:54 -0000

Muwahahah... Love the translation!

Re: Social Media Marketing Baptism by Fire

Brett Borders — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:38:15 -0000

Good post over there!

Re: Startup Weekend 2.0

Brett Borders — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:30:40 -0000

Awesomeness! Sounds fun and flexible.

Re: Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan

Brett Borders — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:06:42 -0000

Great to see SocialThing taking off and getting some attention. The idea is a great and needed one. I'm looking forward to Digg, Reddit and Stumble Support!

-Brett in Boulder, CO

Re: Recapping Startup Weekend Boulder 2

Brett Borders — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:22:51 -0000

Startup Weekend was awesome - several times better than I expected. I got a tremendous buzz from it, and it was totally inspiring to see how well our team (hitsurance) worked together!

Re: Recapping Startup Weekend Boulder 2

Brett Borders — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:56 -0000

Anthony,

I can't speak for other groups, but our 6-person team was the perfect size. Every once and a while someone would wander in to see if they could help and the answer was a resounding "No!" - we didn't mean to be callous, but we found the size to be just exactly perfect.

Re: Five Star Reviews for Radically Transparent

Brett Borders — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:56:28 -0000

I give it 5 stars, too. Here's my review:

http://www.copybrighter.com...

Re: Why People Forward Chain Letters

Brett Borders — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:04:22 -0000

Cool, well-researched article. I have always realized that the chain letters are the original "viral content" on the Web, but you did a great job exploring why they move.

Re: Why Most SEOs Can’t Do Reputation Management

Brett Borders — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:57:10 -0000

Online reputation management is more difficult and labor intensive than SEO, no doubt about it...

Re: Eee PC Laptop Prize Giveaway – Week 3

Brett Borders — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:11 -0000

Andy,

It's really a great book!

I'm already entered, I hope, since you already uploaded my photo?

p.s. follow me on Twitter: "BrettFromTibet"

Re: Eee PC Laptop Prize Giveaway – Week 3

Brett Borders — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:20:04 -0000

So if no one else signs up for this contest... I win? Woo Hoo!

Re: Advice for Managing Negative Reviews of Hotels or Small Businesses

Brett Borders — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:04:57 -0000

Such simple, great advice..! Advice that can make all the difference in the world for your online review reputation!

Re: Social Media Marketing Beginner’s Guide

Brett Borders — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:15:36 -0000

Jon,

Nice to meet you at SMX Social Media (during lunch on the second day) when were talking to the domainer and his son.

Re: Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Brett Borders — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:32:52 -0000

I'm personally delighted by the transformation, although I find it fatiguing to keep up with the sheer speed of the acceleration. There aren't enough hours in the day.

Re: 200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter

Brett Borders — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:05:04 -0000

http://twitter.com/BrettFro...

Re: Advanced Keyword Research for SEO

Brett Borders — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:45:44 -0000

I am really impressed by Google's improved Adwords KW tool. It gives up the monthly search data and has very clean keywords - I'm spend 3 hours on Keyword Discovery and then one hour on Google and I got much cleaner results.

I estimate relevancy and advertiser competition (available from AdWords). Then, run them all through an intitle: inanchor: "competition finder" tool, and then run the most promising ones through SEOmoz's KW Difficulty tool - and put the results in a spreadsheet.

This gives a quick but fairly accurate look at how difficult each term will be to rank for and allows me to select terms for the appropriate pages on the site - based on how strong the domain is currently. Then, of course, as the domain strength improves, I "optimize" and go after more difficult, higher traffic terms that weren't initially attainable.

Re: The Ultimate Guide To Decoding Digg Speak

Brett Borders — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:47:16 -0000

This is an excellent post. It cleared up a few things I have seen on Digg, but which flew right over my head.

Re: Will The Real Micah Baldwin Please Stand Up?

Brett Borders — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:33:10 -0000

Good to hear your path of self-discovery, making choices, success and failure, learning about shades of grey. Definitely let the real you stand up.

As you know, I voted against over your #1 d.b. quest on Sphinn. I just didn't buy that it was anything close the the "real you" - maybe some kind of wacky idea or tangent - at best an inside joke that many people wouldn't understand. I was thinking "What the hell is this for? What exactly are you trying to accomplish / communicate / brand? Why spend your energy AND ask people to spend their energy linking to a dirty word?"

I've found "keeping it real" is tricky. I am a lot more than the sum of my thoughts, opinions and ideas (although the internet / social media empowers the illusion thoughts, ideas are everything). Also the line between my real feelings and my public feelings can get blurry - no matter how honest I try and be. If I openly and honestly said everything I thought - I would run into rocky patches with friends, family, relationships, business, the law. Also I've noticed that many of successful sales / bizdev / management types are rather skilled at maintaining various masks as the situation requires. It's something I struggle with cause I am too straightforward and hate politely agree and candy coat.

The Japanese have two words I like. 1.)tatemae - "enunciated principle - i.e., what you say in public / at the company / on the blog" and 2.)honne - "your real, dangerous, private, gut thoughts - what you REALLY think" . The Japanese banter around tatemae (to be civilized and comfortable in groups) but they read between the lines and use psychic powers to pick up on the honne.

A lot of what controls, motivates and inspires me is deeply, wickedly unconscious. I have to read deep in between the lines to even start to understand myself and what I'm "really" thinking and doing.

It sounds like you have been doing some self-reading and made some discoveries. Keep up the great work!

Re: He asked me to go on a bike ride…

Brett Borders — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:57:36 -0000

Congrats, Tara!

This is so awesome - you have so much good stuff going for you.

Re: 5 FireFox Extensions to Enhance Link Analysis in Yahoo

Brett Borders — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:22:02 -0000

Hmm.. I just installed Joost's Link Analysis 1.0.3 with Firefox 3.0.1 and it doesn't work on my Mac. This is a really great tool - much appreciated - hope it can get ironed out!

Re: Why I Live In Boulder? Mercury Poisoning, Of Course

Brett Borders — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:39:29 -0000

>basically NewTech Meetup with beer, has 300 people attend.

Hey! New Tech Meetup has beer! Wine too! Helps ease the pain ;)

Re: Songbird Releases Beta of Web-Integrated Media Player

Brett Borders — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:59:30 -0000

The new Songbird beta is absolutely amazing!@ You must install it and give it a chance. I am so impressed at how far this project has come.

You would have to be a real muppet to not understand why iTunes is evil and Songbird is going to offer us the freedom to buy and enjoy music has been lost in this long and awkward transition to digital music.

Huge cheers for an open source music program to disrupt the evil corporate DRM paradigm.

Re: Songbird Releases Beta of Web-Integrated Media Player

Brett Borders — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:00:29 -0000

If you installed this program a year ago.... it has come a long way.