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Re: The Best Remake Ever: “Kashmir” as done by Kevin Gilbert

Mike Keliher — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:02:37 -0000

From a tried-and-true Zep Hed, this version of this song kicks ass.

Re: Bit.ly launches today (Scripting News)

Mike Keliher — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:51:06 -0000

Allen Stern doesn't write for ReadWriteWeb. :)

Re: Bit.ly launches today (Scripting News)

Mike Keliher — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:04:35 -0000

Touche. :)

Re: PR industry: Still grasping for a clue

Mike Keliher — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:15:27 -0000

If I may be so brash as to simply share something I wrote more than one year ago:

http://www.unjournalism.com/2007/03/10/social-m...

My, how so little has changed.

Thanks for the post, Matt.

Re: Happiness XIV

Mike Keliher — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:00:22 -0000

Hooray for Twitter!

Re: Happiness CXCIX

Mike Keliher — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:19:20 -0000

Ghirardelli, homes! :)

Re: Enabling Tweetbacks

Mike Keliher — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:57 -0000

I haven't tried Tweetbacks, but I have implemented -- and fallen in love with -- a similar solution called Chat Catcher, developed by a friend of mine, Shannon Whitley.

I haven't looked closely enough at Tweetbacks to notice any specific functional differences, but I really like Chat Catcher a lot. Not only is it great for helping to keep focused the conversation around a blog post, but it's a powerful monitoring tool, too.

For example, if someone tweets about "this great post about Twitter and PR" and includes a link to my blog, which would be masked by a URL shortening service, I'd never know they were talking about my site if it weren't for Chat Catcher because that tweet didn't mention my name or my blog's name.

That's important for PR people and anyone else using online communication for professional purposes -- and for the plain old egomaniacs. :)

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Re: Enabling Tweetbacks

Mike Keliher — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:03:24 -0000

If you do happen to give Chat Catcher a try, Rick, I'd be curious on your thoughts in comparison to Tweetbacks. I've only used CC and wonder if there's much of a difference.

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Re: Social Media Something

Mike Keliher — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:28 -0000

"Has it brought in more readers?" I haven't had any readers (unless you count clients!) since I was a columnist in college, so yes. And this, on a personal realm, is the best part. I have a good place to stretch my writing muscles and, occasionally, have a little bit of an audience for it, too.

"Has it increased your earnings? Has it generated more sales leads?" Well, social media is a big part of what I do professionally -- both tactically and in terms of our own promotional efforts -- and I'm in a better place now than I was a few years ago, so I suppose so.

"Has it simplified your life? Has it save you more time?" It's certainly simplified my constant need for information and education. That's not even remotely debatable. And, just one other example: I love using Flickr, as opposed to making prints at Walgreens.

"Has it improved your customer service rating?" Overall, I perform better and more effectively, so I believe it has improved my customer service. But I guess we'd have to ask them, eh? :)

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Re: Got Laconi.ca installed on my DreamHost account | apocryph.org

Mike Keliher — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:03:39 -0000

Thanks for putting this together. I really appreciate it, as I'm certainly not experienced in this realm and I'm struggling to learn from other sites that don't explain things well.

One question: I have things set up, but when my page loads (http://mbtest.unjournalism.com), I see this error up top:

"DB_DataObject Error: Connect failed, turn on debugging to 5 see why"

I, too, am on Dreamhost, if that matter. Any ideas off the top of your head? I don't expect full-on Laconi.ca support from you, but if you have any ideas on where to start, I'd appreciate it.

For what it's worth, when you say, "I then ran the MySQL command line client to run the db/laconica.sql script to populate the database" -- I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to do that, but I used Dreamhost's phpMyAdmin to "import" the laconica.sql file into the database I created for Laconi.ca. I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do or not.

Thanks again...

Re: The Feature FriendFeed Must Have to Go Mainstream

Mike Keliher — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:27:27 -0000

I'm shocked this function doesn't exist already. Having a "Send me email when people comment on my feed and I haven't logged in recently" seems silly without the broader "Send me email *whenever* people comment on my feed" option.

Re: No One Is Going To Steal Your Idea

Mike Keliher — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:35:16 -0000

The Aiken quote is great, but there's one issue with it: a lot of ideas that make money are bad ideas, presumably easy to steal. So the decision needs to be made: Do you want good ideas or good money?

I suppose any idea that makes money could be considered a good idea, but when I read Aiken's quote, I think not. I think Aiken is saying that truly *good* ideas are those that have the potential to really rock people's worlds.

That said, your ideas are pretty good (probably in the world-rocking sense, more than the money-making sense). :)

Re: Good Communications, Like Good Bourbon, Takes Time

Mike Keliher — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:25:28 -0000

Mmmm...Knob Creek. Doesn't taste a day younger than 10. :)

Re: Best Practices In Social Media Marketing: Embrace Your Audience

Mike Keliher — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:07:31 -0000

I love the 90-10-90 rule. And reading that has driven me to solidify something I've done casually in the past: I want to do my part to lower that second 90 percent for the brands I use and like. That is, I want to make sure they hear positivity from consumers, not just complaints. Good brands deserve that, no?

Re: Is Social Media A Marketing or PR Tool

Mike Keliher — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:30:56 -0000

When your friend said, "PR is based on targeting experts in a field, typically journalist and editors, with a secondary focus on targeting the general public," did you tell him he was mistaken?

That's not PR. That's media relations, one area within the broader discipline of public relations. This stuff we call social media might fit best under a description of an "online form of community relations." Of course, community relations is another area within PR.

Of course, there's this point: What does it matter?

Seriously. Does the distinction matter? If you find people who "know this stuff" and are successful at accomplishing what you want to accomplish with it, isn't that the important part?

I don't intend to be condescending; lord knows I've been roped into discussions like this (example: see first half of my comment :). But really, does it matter if we consider this work marketing or PR? My (agency) boss doesn't care - he just wants to make clients happy. My clients don't care - they just want results.

And I'm sure we all know classifying or labeling the work certainly doesn't constitute "results."

Keep up the good work on the blog. I enjoy it. --Mike

Re: When Did Social Networking Become a Job?

Mike Keliher — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:09:43 -0000

It became a "job" when you let it. If you're not getting value out of it - making money, meeting interesting people, having fun, whatever - it's going to be seen as work and likely not worth the effort. In fact, the more it's "effort" and less "desire," you might need to adjust.

Why or how to you feel compelled, as it seems you do, to put so much time or effort into Facebook, for example, that it becomes unenjoyable?

Re: Is Social Media Forcing the End of Investigative Journalism?

Mike Keliher — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:27:34 -0000

Good journalism - and/or the need for it - will never, ever die. Sure, there will cuts and changes and turbulence, and maybe the business will never be the same. Maybe there are *too many* people getting paid to practice professional journalism right now. And you know what? Not all of it's good. I could rant all day long about how some (SOME, not all) journalism, especially on TV, needs some serious help.

The decrease in salaries or in the number of people receiving those salaries is rough for those people and their families, but beyond that, I think this is a largely overblown issue. We'll see the pendulum swing a bit away from what most people call "real journalism" toward things like blogs and podcasts and such. And then we'll hit a time when people say, "Wait, where the hell is the real journalism?"

And the Times will start hiring again.

Re: Does Video Twitter Make Sense?

Mike Keliher — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:15:26 -0000

Your criticism of Seesmic - that "it takes way too long to post a video and listen to a video playback then read a maximum 140 character message" - seems to assume Seesmic is supposed to replace Twitter or somehow be "like Twitter but in video!"

Sure, some people explain it like that because it's an easy way to explain what Seesmic is - roughly. But it's actually quite off the mark. There's a massive difference between interacting with people in short bursts of video and doing so in minuscule bursts of text. Comparing the two so directly isn't even like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and cheeseburgers.

Re: Who’s Right & Who’s Wrong With 1938Media?

Mike Keliher — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:42:28 -0000

Perhaps not many people are speaking up because this is petty bullshit. It's truly unfortunate for Shel, and I think he's learned a lesson or two. But beyond that, this is petty - and easy to ignore. I'm going to try to keep doing that.

Re: Twitter Adds Search

Mike Keliher — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:52:32 -0000

Have you heard of Tweetscan.com? Searches all tweets or lets you specify a user's tweets to search - even your own, of course.

Re: Who’s Right & Who’s Wrong With 1938Media?

Mike Keliher — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:33:47 -0000

Do you have a link to more info about this Scoble video of Feldman editing the Loic interview? Just curious.

Re: Who’s Right & Who’s Wrong With 1938Media?

Mike Keliher — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:05:05 -0000

Sorry. I read about the Scoble video in one of the comments. The video of Feldman is at Scoble's Qik page: http://qik.com/Scobleizer

Re: MnIndy Video: Despite RNC police state, some messages got through

Mike Keliher — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:02:14 -0000

Fact check: Bush and McCain weren't dancing to House of Pain. It was Cypress Hill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_in_the_membrane

Re: Updated MN Blog List

Mike Keliher — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:03:21 -0000

Thanks for the link and the kind words. Might I also humbly suggest TheSameRowdyCrowd.com, another site I write for. It's much more Minnesota-focused, though not exclusively. About journalism, politics, communication and some other randomness. Written by a team of local folks.

Re: Why I Failed Math- Calculating

Mike Keliher — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:32:14 -0000

Fuzzy Monkey Launcher? Reminds me of Happy Fun Ball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXG8RNTp5EM

Re: Quick One- Are You Using StumbleUpon

Mike Keliher — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:28:12 -0000

I've never used StumbleUpon - neither for sharing nor finding. But I have seen and heard great examples of it driving awesome amounts of traffic.

Re: Five Things to Do at a Social Networking Meetup

Mike Keliher — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:26:14 -0000

I couldn't agree more with your sentiment about not being afraid to "dig deep" into one or two conversations, rather than float around the whole group all night long. I much prefer this method, and actually, it's often far easier to do without feeling awkward.

Re: Twitter as an Advisory Board

Mike Keliher — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:27:20 -0000

If we'd have been organized with a hashtag like #ysm (Why social media?), you could have easily provided a link for people to see all (of the properly tagged) responses. That might have been nice.

Great responses, though, eh? JamesOClark and DJLitton are on to something.

Re: What are Your Social Media Tasks

Mike Keliher — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:30:09 -0000

Out of respect to your readers and commenters, I weighed in on my own site here:

http://www.unjournalism.com/2008/04/17/my-socia...

Re: Happy Birthday Dad

Mike Keliher — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:38:51 -0000

Happy birthday, Mr. Chris's Dad!

Re: Why Are You Investigating Social Media

Mike Keliher — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:33:24 -0000

Personally speaking, I'm a geek, so I'm interested in investigating all sorts of stuff -- technology or otherwise -- that most people aren't.

In a professional sense, I'm a public relations and marketing consultant at an agency, and I have little interest in "investigating social media" in that context. What I do have an interest in is investigating places where the right people gather to talk about the right topics (for me and my clients). Guess what? Those places often happen to be Twitter, the blogosphere, other Web communities, and the like. So here I am!

Re: Spectrums of Social Media for Marketing

Mike Keliher — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:38:56 -0000

Makes sense overall, but it's obviously quite a complex thing. In general, your left-to-right setup makes sense, but where do you put *bad* content marketing? To me, a terrible, short-sighted, pushy, salesy podcast is no better -- no farther right on the spectrum -- than a run of the mill banner ad.

And, of course, there's a lot more stuff to fill in on that spectrum, but I'm sure we can tackle that in a future post!

Re: On Twitter and Listening

Mike Keliher — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:50:07 -0000

How about "unheard" or "new" voicemails? :)

Re: Workflow- Social Media for Marketers

Mike Keliher — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:59:42 -0000

Realistic? Sure. Comprehensive? No.

It's realistic in that nothing here is a bad idea, and everything here can and probably should be done by anyone even considering to call him or herself a "social media marketer." In fact, I've been working on putting together a couple of communication plans during the past couple of weeks that look a lot like this.

But it stops short. She's not producing any of her own content -- not blogging, not podcasting, not sharing videos, not posting photos, not hosting her own events (though she's working toward it).

I understand that you can only do so much in one article, but it should be noted, for the sake of those who are relying this as guidance, that this is just a starting point. A *great* starting point, but just that.

Re: Do I read all Twitters?

Mike Keliher — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:04:48 -0000

I suffer the same affliction mentioned above by Scott Monty. I get my tweets incoming via the Google Talk IM tool, so when I fire up the ol' lappy-toppy in the morning, the night's tweet come pouring in. I read them all.

When I was gone for a week for my honeymoon last month, I came back, pasted the whole mess into a more stable Notepad instance and slowly sludged through every...single...tweet. Sad but cool. Time consuming but worth it.

Of course, I only follow about 40-50 people (and have about the same number following me).

Re: Patrick graduates to high school

Mike Keliher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:34:45 -0000

Congrats to the boy and the parents!

Re: AT&T’s CTO tells me all of Apple’s secrets

Mike Keliher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:35:14 -0000

You sneaky bastard...nice headline. :)

Re: Blog comments are dead: discuss

Mike Keliher — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:10:49 -0000

You're being silly. Because something similar and new exists, the previous iteration is "dead"?

Are phone calls dead because someone invented the Internet? Is CNN dead because you and Rocky record hour-long video interviews? Am I dead (worthless, less significant) because my little sister is cuter than me and my mom finally got the daughter she wanted?

Right now, FriendFeed is a place for early adopters and overactive social media types. They're more likely to comment, to "like," to share. If you think your blog and its comment-driven discussions are dying, give it up. Go ahead.

Re: sorry-ok-yes cover of “Louie Louie”

Mike Keliher — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:38:56 -0000

I love it.

Re: Prince objected to my PEEPle Rain PEEPS Diorama Video

Mike Keliher — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:06:24 -0000

I'm sure your 40-second clip cost The Artist Formerly Known as Cool several thousands of dollars.

It's strange that (at 5:05 p.m. Central Time) the audio is still there, despite YouTube's claim to the contrary.

Re: Investing in your Business with the Million Dollar Wiki

Mike Keliher — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:23:03 -0000

That's the beauty of something like Wikipedia: People contribute -- in many cases, large amounts of time and energy -- for the sake of building something useful, being part of something great. They don't do it for money or recognition or attention.

I saw this Million-Dollar Wiki the other day, after a previous post of yours mentioned it. Honestly, I almost became nauseous. The content on your pages is actually rather good -- so thank you for that -- but the site as a whole seemed overly commercialized. Like an infomercial rather than, say, NewsHour.

Wikipedia has the opposite affect: I know there's lots of heated debate about content, what's right and what's not, and so on, but the end product honestly makes me feel better about people and their desire to contribute to something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Re: It’s Okay to Decline a Negative Comment

Mike Keliher — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:04:05 -0000

Good post, Doug. This is definitely a gray area that a lot of people don't understand. The overall goal, of course, is to be smart (easier said than done, I know). Just because you *can* moderate comments and avoid negative ones doesn't mean you should go wild and try to present an overly rosy picture of your organization, your products or your brand.

In fact, addressing critical comments can be far more powerful than only showing off glowing remarks. It's more realistic and it demonstrates strength and caring.

Re: What Is a Friend?

Mike Keliher — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:48:22 -0000

I understand a bit of where you're coming from: The little girl in the lead of this NY Times piece, Katie, is my sister.

http://tinyurl.com/2sbdl4

Anyway, I agree with Nicholas' citation of Charleen Li above. If social networks and other communication facilitated by the Internet aren't exactly "like air" in the next handful of years, they'll certainly be damn close.

Think about the TV, and how it used to be a focal point of a family's evening - and now, it's just *on* in the background, like a light in the living room.

Re: PR Lessons: Nothing is ever 'off the record'

Mike Keliher — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:07:28 -0000

The worst part about this is not that the president was caught calling Kayne that, but that Kanye will just be thrilled to hear the president is talking about him! Good for his ego and whatnot.

Re: 9 Steps for every Social Media Expert to improve Rankings and Garner the Respect they Deserve

Mike Keliher — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:20:15 -0000

It was good to see your better half, Thomas, and I'm not talkin' about the missus this time. :)