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Re: Keeping up with the Social Web

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:53:18 -0000

I agree, Jeremiah.
You come across very well on video.
It adds a nice dimension to reading your tweets and blog.
Thanks for sharing this (as well as all your thinking on social media).
Have fun in Dubai!
Best,
Scott

Re: Social Media Early Adopters: Pioneers, Settlers, and Colonists

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:35:26 -0000

Great post.
What's also interesting is the velocity at which both the tools and the people advance.
Today new utilities, sites, and services appear almost daily. Each person's willingness to invest attention in a new tool is based on how relevant to his/her needs s/he perceives the new tool to be (a perception based on when we hear about a new tool, how it was explained, and who introduced it to us).
In other words, we users sometimes go from Colonist to Pioneer and back again depending on the context and how many other new systems attract our attention that day.

Re: 3 China journalism jobs

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:20:03 -0000

Fascinating. Great material here for a 60 Minutes style investigative piece tracing unexpected uses of stock art across the web. I'm sure there would be some surprising anecdotes.

Re: 3 China journalism jobs

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:20:03 -0000

Fascinating. Great material here for a 60 Minutes style investigative piece tracing unexpected uses of stock art across the web. I'm sure there would be some surprising anecdotes.

Re: Threading Some Trends Together

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:59 -0000

Nice, timely post, Chris.

I agree with all the work remotely points made by other commenters, too.

Tim Ferris' coverage of the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) at Best Buy validates much of this approach.

Also, I was just talking with Gary Vaynerchuk of Winelibrary.com video fame about "personal brands" on Thursday as an interview for my online radio show about Internet marketing.

He and I are both convinced that there is a "personal branding revolution" underway that offers major opportunities to anyone with expertise to share. They can do this independently or under a corporate umbrella as Scoble has proven.

The interview is up now here if anyone wants to hear how Gary V. has used online video to build an explosive personal brand online for himself with his wine-tasting videos: http://www.scottfox.com/blog_index.html
(or archived at scottfoxradio.com for later readers...)

Re: You Need to Be Easy

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:47:05 -0000

People definitely care more about where you are located in the "real" world than I usually expect. I even catch myself often asking people "where" they work geographically.

Not disclosing your location seems to leave a hole in most peoples' mental maps of who you are.

And it's not only business cards that do this, I wrote a blog post back in March called "Web Marketing Newbie Mistake #1: Hiding Your Location."
[http://www.scottfox.com/2008/03/web-marketing-n.html]

It talks about the many good reasons that people do (unexpectedly) want to know where your business is based, and how web site owners should turn their About Us pages into an asset by using their location to attract customers.

Re: 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:04:37 -0000

Wow, Chris, that's quite a list.
Informative, detailed and actionable.
What are your thoughts on Squidoo? Did you not include it for strategic reasons or just because you had enough already?

Re: Making Money Isnt Evil

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:01:08 -0000

Badass!

Re: Why Twitter Still Wins

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:33:01 -0000

Agreed, Chris. It's really amazing the number of little apps that have appeared to add functionality to Twitter. I find a new one almost every day.

No doubt that Twitter's strategy of open architecture has led to the development of the ecosytem you reference, which in turn keeps us all tied in that much tighter to Twitter despite it's now-you-see-it, now-you-don't SLAs.

Re: Growing New Crops

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:39:30 -0000

This is a nice theory but who needs the established media companies to incubate anything?

Entrepreneurs backed by the venture community have filled the gap just fine with plenty of promising startups.

Yes, the media companies should be doing it themselves (instead of hoping desperately that the Internet would somehow go away...) but they also have the luxury of being fast-followers and using their deep pockets to acquire the best startups.

My whole career has been based on (profitably) helping this transition. Media companies and startups need each other.

Market-based evolution at work.

Re: Who Cares Advertising

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:04:50 -0000

Social "proof" strikes again.

Re: How to Start Speaking at Events

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:01:30 -0000

Good tips on speaking, Chris.
This sounds like the same plan that has yielded success for me as a speaker on online entrepreneurship topics, too. (except that I am way overdue on posting some video of me speaking on my Speaking page at ScottFox.com 0 thanks for the reminder!).

Re: You are the President of Your Career

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:05:09 -0000

Hi Chris,
Very nice post.
We are on the same wavelength once again.
Just last week on my blog I posted "You're ALREADY the boss. It's just up to you to decide if you are going to act like it."
Of course, your development of the theme was much more thorough and entertaining!
Happy new year,
Scott

Re: Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:26:41 -0000

This is great stuff, Chris.

Even easier is to set up a free Google "Alert" that scours the web for you. The alerts will email you back any mentions it finds of your name, your company, your URL, etc..

These free alerts land right in your inbox. I find that they provide a lot of actionable info for almost zero additional work.

Re: The Undiscovered Country of Presence Management

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:25:07 -0000

Good points, Chris. Having a big company's presence on Twitter handled by only one person is shortsighted (unless that company has only 1 product or 1 perspective to share or 1 customer or some other limiting factor.)

I talk a lot about the "reputation cloud" that a company creates through its online activities (or INactivities) here and in my new book, e-Riches 2.0, too.

You and your insights are referenced repeatedly, fyi!

Re: Find a Place to Play

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:05:49 -0000

Assuming that the service can attain critical mass, this should be very useful, especially for traveling or parents who have recently relocated.
In fact, it strikes me as so useful that it will likely be absorbed into the culture like cell phones, email, or Google Maps itself. That will lead next generation parents (and babysitters) to wonder how we could ever have gotten along without it.
Crowd-sourced repair requests, playdate scheduling, and community-driven activities are natural extensions, too.

Re: Top 142 Social Marketing Blogs on the Web

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:56:36 -0000

Nice list, Jack. Thanks for compiling and sharing it.
Some good references here for my next book.

Also, my E-Commerce Success Blog is not strictly social media-focused but is full of helpful strategy and online marketing tips for entrepreneurs.
http://www.scottfoxblog.com

Have a great weekend everybody.

Re: 7 Blog Promotion Tips From The Devil

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:01:49 -0000

Jack,
this is hilarious and clever.
let's talk about this on my podcast.
anissa has been asking me to schedule one together but i've been looking for the hook. here it is!
LOL.
Scott Fox

<abbr></abbr><abbr>Scott Fox, Author of Internet Richess last blog post..Just Released: The Best Instant Internet Business for You</abbr>

Re: What do the freaking tech bloggers want?

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:09:44 -0000

Robert,

Sorry but I don’t buy this. Yes, you are trying to be constructive by giving some specific actionable suggestions to PR folks (big points for that) but isn’t the real problem here one of self-discipline on your side?

Having the whole blogosphere kissing your ass and desperately competing to get your attention is a blessing earned by your years of contribution to the community (as much as it may feel like a curse!).

If you don’t like all the attention, be more selective about the stories you cover. More importantly, turn off the faucet of incoming pitches entirely and do your own research.

PR works because it helps make a writer’s job easier. You’re (at least partially) pissed off at yourself here because you know that following leads fed by a PR firm is a lazy way to do research. Any of us who write/blog are occasionally guilty of taking the easy way by relying on PR pitches for new stories.

But many of the most innovative people and companies don’t have PR reps pushing material on you. Go find more of them independently like you often do (as in your recent posts about StackOverflow and Meebo).

That’s “Journalism 1.0”. I’m sure you remember it.

Scott Fox

Re: What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:32:57 -0000

Great post, Tamar. Nice collection of different perspectives from across the blogosphere.

The consensus that you have documented here toward contributing VALUE to a CONVERSATION is what really differentiates social media from broadcast/shotgun marketing.

Old school marketing/advertising pros (like those in the TV series Mad Men) would be mystified by the level of personal interaction and commitment to community demonstrated by today's best social marketers.

Re: Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser

Scott Fox, Internet Riches — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:26:52 -0000

Hi Walt,

This is a helpful and thorough review, but you glossed over the most important question to most of us: "How does the speed issue you raise in IE 8 compare to performance in IE7?"

We're not all early adopters like you, comparing multiple different new browsers and operating systems. Most of us just want to know if it's worth the trouble of upgrading.

Thanks.