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Yay! Another chance at a freebe.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Twitter has Email Equivelents

Chris, are you using the "blog this" feature from flickr? What's your process? Use "blog this" and compose everything from Flickr? Often I feel I have to download the correct size then upload it again to display it - then create attributions.

I'm not really bothered by this. The way I see it is if I publish any content on any web server I don't pay for, then they own it - or at least share it. The best solution has always been to buy your own server and host all your stuff, it's just not practical. So when you get something for free, you give up something. Maybe it's best for most people to publish their own content on their own blogs and allow Facebook, etc, to link to it?

Rob Williams's last blog post..Updated eBook: Getting Started With Social Media

Reminds me of my own story with Dell. My laptop monitor died, I moaned on Twitter, Dell found me, we met in person at an event, emailed me after with links to the part on eBay. I have the whole story on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/orangejack/3019883...

I think the thing that is most fascinating about CNN and Facebook is that essentially CNN had a chat room running beside the video. The concept is nothing new. In fact, like you mentioned, the concept of people gathering around a TV to watch and comment together isn't new. But what makes this 'new' is that it's dispersed and 2 brands are tied together to do it. Instead of it just being a chat room, it's larger because the comments aren't just seen on CNN, but spread out to the commenter's network on Facebook.

That's what I find so fascinating about social media - that it takes old, common, and natural situations and turns it into something larger, more grand. So your argument about ROI is spot-on.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Updated eBook: Getting Started With Social Media

Nice! I wish, though, I could just get it as an mp3 and not the filetype it gave me. I don't want to have to install the audible manager just to listen to it.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Updated eBook: Getting Started With Social Media

Chrome is my default now. Switched from firefox. I still like ff, but Chrome is faster and lighter. As for the addons Chrome is missing, I've found I can do almost everything I did in ff through bookmarklets.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Merry Noel

hooray! a way to get a book for free! and it's actually one i'd like to read! but hurry up and announce it because i'll need to take it off my amazon wish list if i win

Rob Williams's last blog post..Marketing for Managers Interview

I don't think you compromised anything in your disclaimers. In fact, the post was still consistent with the site's goals, was it not? It wasn't just the disclaimers that make it work for me, but as a strategist myself, I totally understand your points on trying it to understand it to be able to advise better. That's what early adopters and strategists do: play with the new stuff so we can help others know if and when they should do it.

Good on you, Chris. Blog on!

I like Chrome a lot. I've made it my default. There are a few plugins I'm missing from Firefox, but I've found my way around most of them with bookmarklets (is.gd, gmail-this, addthis, and googleshare). Mostly I have to go old skool on screenshots with printscreen and photo editor.

I also moved most of my bookmarks into about 5 folders on my toolbar so now everything is within reach. I'm not a toolbar fan anyway.

Rob Williams's last blog post..A Few “Do’s” and “Don’ts” Online

I like this thought, but it depends on what sort of info I'm looking for. I agree that I have my chosen and filtered crowd that I listen to already. However, for things that are outside the wisdom of 'my crowd' I like to go elsewhere - like wikipedia for example. My crowd doesn't know what 'they' know. I turn to my crowd for what I know they are experts on.

Okay, thanks. I registered, I just hate that I know I'm taking a spot from someone who could participate in real time and I know I can't.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Online and Seasoned

I'm bummed I can't make it Wednesday. Will it be rebroadcast?

Rob Williams's last blog post..Online and Seasoned

I like it, but I don't use it much. The best thing about Twitter is that you can get a lot out of it without ever going to the site. So it's fine with me.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Social Media Basics

It was great getting to know you better. Your presentation was great!

Congrats! Not even edited for time ;-)

Good stuff and glad to see you being the one letting MSM know about it.

Rob Williams's last blog post..Tropical Storm Fay and Social Media

We also have a FriendFeed room that is auto-fed from several hurricane sites and a couple of hurricane twitter folks. Good discussion and resources: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hurricane

I totally relate to your statement about people sounding pissed off when they talk to me about Twitter. They also are people who haven't tried it but they know they hate it. Reminds me of people who say all blogs are stupid because they don't know why anyone would journal online.

When I talk to others about social media, I don't always talk about growth and retention (though those are good). I usually refer to customer service and branding.

I like FriendFeed for aggregating all my stuff into one place. I'm divided over the idea that people comment on FF as opposed to on the original content (like this blog post). But what makes it tough for me to really like is I can't find a way to be notified of comments on FF.

One thing I love about gReader is I am notified of new content and comments. I feel like if I step away from FF (or Twitter for that matter) I miss a lot. gReader lets me catch up.

found your site from a louisgray.com post. saw you're from sc. what part? i'm from greenville, but live in orlando now

I was thinking about this a while back and agree. I think a great use for Twitter is office communication. But it can really be carried further than just in the office. Say a sales rep goes out and lands a deal. He can SMS it to everyone. Each person following can choose to get the updates via SMS, IM, etc. Their choice. I like the idea of using twhril for that too.

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Rob Williams's last blog post..Staying Updated with Orangejack

No kidding. I've been Outlook-free for a few months now and most of the time I love it. RTM does a good job but there were some great, slick mgt processes inside Outlook tasks. But if Google were to do it right and integrate it with gCal and gMail, well, I'd be all set! I hope they do it soon.

I subscribed to your blog and just unsubscribed because you're not sending full feeds. Why encourage others to do full feeds but you don't? Unless something broke, I got headlines only.