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2 weeks ago

in Window of Opportunity on Nordquist Blog
Oh my goodness. Kai is old enough to chew gum?? I feel like he was born last week. They sure do grow up quickly.

2 months ago

in Grilled to a Crisp on Nordquist Blog
I looove burnt things. Oddly enough that photo made me hungry.

2 months ago

in Crowdsourcing is Hot Now, But Will Participation Fatigue Set In? on Marketing Pilgrim
Fatigue has already set in big time in terms of getting answers to questions on Twitter. Two years ago, I had 100 followers and 20 of them jumped in to answer just about anything. (My car was making an odd noise when taking corners, to a restaurant suggestion in a city I was visiting, to a new book to read.) Today, I've got 4,000 followers and exactly one person was able to suggest a hotel in Toronto.

Mahalo Answers and LinkedIn Answers are better places to get answers to questions because people go there with the intention of finding questions they can answer. Mahalo has been pulling questions out of Twitter for awhile now, but in the few months I've been answering questions it's gone from a fun place to answer a few queries to "Why don't you Google that and go away??" (Similar to Yahoo Answers today.)

It'd be nice if there was an easy way to filter out all tweets from people I'm following that contain a question mark. I'd like to answer more questions, but they get lost in a sea of other messages.

3 months ago

in The worst thing for Twitter on Scobleizer
Back in the day, email was segmented by service -- i.e. if you were on AOL you could only send/receive mail to other AOL members. As the microblogging platform matures, I really wonder if we'll all accept using one singular walled service like Twitter, or if Laconi.ca (or another open instance) will really take off in its place. Seems like Google would have been better off in the long run making Jaiku open source but indexing it across all platforms.

3 months ago

in The worst thing for Twitter on Scobleizer
I just don't get Google. Clearly, they rock at search -- that's great. Why can't they stay within their core competency and stop mucking up everything else? I'm an efficiency consultant, and GMail and GReader are atrocious in terms of productivity. (No nested folders? No smartlists? No distinction between descriptive tags and action tags? I could go on forever...)

Twitter's in a precarious enough position as it is, and being purchased by Google would only make it worse.

5 months ago

in 57 Internet Possibilities to Investigate on Chris Brogan
I've got to vote for Salesforce.com as the ultimate CRM choice. They even have a $99/year version. You don't want to have to work within the limitations of another CRM's prescribed fields and workflows ... you should be able to customize it exactly for your needs.

7 months ago

in Simply Raw DVD Review [Raw Movie Review] on Raw Food, Right Now!
I totally understand and believe in a raw food diet being healthier and reversing many diseases, but not type one diabetes. The alleged type one diabetics were probably really type two - it's often difficult to identify exactly which one someone has.

Going raw can dramatically *reduce* the need for insulin in a type one diabetic, but it's very dangerous to propagate the idea that you can completely cure it with raw food. Lots of type one diabetics (myself included) have benefited from a raw food diet but it is simply not a cure. Going without insulin at all will *kill* a type one diabetic in a very short period of time, and I've never been under the impression that the raw food community wanted to cause death.
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Philip Madeley Dear Marina,

Yes it is really hard to believe that such a thing is possible... and as we see over time new paradigms are often resisted before being accepted. It has been drummed into us that it is NOT possible.

Yes Type 1 is very very complicated and not a journey to take alone without supervision. As clearly noted messing with insulin without medical knowledge can cause diabetic coma and death. Each case is absolutely unique. The longer the person has had it the harder it is to reverse. Children are more likely to be able to reverse. All cases with the right supervision will reduce the insulin and extend lifespan and quality of life.

Also remember that diet alone is only one factor - there is also supplements, detox, mental/ emotional blocks to release, environment and so on.

Regarding mis-diagnosis, of course this could and does happen and the medical world is full of misdiagnosis. Kurt was actually mis-diagnosed with type 2 and independent full diabetic lab panel result that came in after he began the program confirmed him to be type 1. Also all participants in the TOL program are required to get a full diabetic panel before attending... confirming their status as type 1 or 2. So we can see if this contradicts their current medical diagnosis.

In January we have 4 type ones coming for our 21 day program and we will keep you posted on the results.

The vision is to have a 100 person medical study for which Gabriel is currently seeking funding that will move us away from the current paradigm into a new one of possibility.

Much Love and Gratitude
Philip Madeley
Senior Manager, Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center
TOL Community Member - 8 Years

7 months ago

in Shut Up- You're Helping the Customer! on Chris Brogan
I can't help but wonder if there's more to this story.

Bob was wrong for continuing to interact with customers online after explicitly being told to stop. If he wanted to continue, he should have put together a report of information he gathered and a formal proposal showing benefits to the company. It may very well be that his managers were not averse to social media specifically, but were (understandably) averse to approving of public-facing actions that they did not fully understand and could not control.

I see a lot of people tout the benefits of employees tweeting, blogging, etc. but there is a huge amount of risk inherent in those suggestions. What if your employee shares wrong information? What if that information causes injury? People sue over just about anything these days. Is the company hierarchy clear - does someone asking a question know that Joe is entry-level with six months of experience and John has been there for 15 years? Social media interaction by employees should be treated like any other form of public-facing communication. No one would let their employees mail out letters to customers without some approval process.

If social media wants to be taken seriously, it needs to act seriously and be approached in a serious way.

9 months ago

in Calling the Snickers Hotline on Nordquist Blog
"Diabetics also prefer the mini for a quick boost of energy." They really said that? *headdesk* Sooo wrong.

You MUST call the Jell-O hotline and ask them what gelatin made of, then blog about it. Please.
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Brett Nordquist @Marina Martin -
Yes, he said that. I was surprised as well and wondered if he mixed up his conditions.

10 months ago

in Cherp is a Twitter-Flavored Agency on Chris Brogan
I have no problem with the concept - there's lots of room for niche services and specific focuses.

Matt, I hope you'll expand past Twitter and support a more general microblogging focus. Basing your business platform entirely on another company is perhaps not the best financial strategy.

10 months ago

in Take the Tools and Run With Them on Chris Brogan
Couldn't agree more, Chris.

As an efficiency consultant, I run into a lot of people who expect me to use and recommend the latest new productivity apps/tools. In reality, I use pen, paper, and spreadsheets, because most productivity/CRM apps suck.

New-app-makers (not to discount their hard work) expect me to adapt my process to how their tool works, when what we really need is process FIRST and then to find tools to complement our process.

10 months ago

in Magnolia Opens Up on Chris Brogan
This is why federation is SO important, particularly with microblogging. If you leave Twitter, you lose your community. If you're on Identi.ca, you can move to any other instance and take your community with you.

I'm hoping to be the human bridge that moves some people over to federated microblogging sites (of which Identi.ca is the most popular at the moment).

10 months ago

in Your Productivity Tips on Building Browsergames
I've heard some programmers suggest intentionally leaving a last step unfinished before closing up for the night, so they have something easy to tackle when they pick the project back up. As you covered, once you start something, it's a lot easier to continue.

11 months ago

in Does Size Matter on Chris Brogan
My main challenge with short vs. long is what sort of mood I'm in when I first come across it - even the most interesting of content will not interest me if it's 2,500 words and it's standing between me and Inbox Zero.

To remedy this, I try hard to sort my communications based on average length. I'm always in the mood for a Seth Godin post because he's always brief, so he's in a different RSS category than Lifehack.org, which has great articles but are long and require concentration. I route all email newsletters to a special folder that I only access when I'm in a reading mood.

In all things, you should only use as many words as are necessary to get your point across. The shorter, the better.

11 months ago

in Why I’m leaving Twitter…Follow me on Plurk! on There's a Blog in my Soup!
Have you explored Identi.ca yet? I have also pretty much stopped using Twitter, but there's nothing stopping Plurk from running into the same problems. Identi.ca is open source, which means anyone can add a feature or fix a bug, and it's also federated, which means you can install a version on your own server with your own particular featureset but still seamlessly following people on other Identi.ca instances. It's got a pretty vibrant community already and a new feature is coming out every few days.

If you are there, you can connect with me at http://identi.ca/marinamartin.

11 months ago

in A Marvelous Night on Nordquist Blog
Power to the night owls! I'm an efficiency consultant and I swear by working when your productivity is highest - and for some of us, that's the middle of the night. It's 3:44am right now in Seattle and I've still got a couple hours of solid work ahead of me. When I wake up like a "normal" person I'm useless for hours. "Early to bed" my foot!

11 months ago

in Patrick Curl’s Daily Tweets: on There's a Blog in my Soup!
What WordPress plugin do you use for the "Share & Enjoy" area of your posts? I really like it.

Also, any thought of posting on Identi.ca, too? With an app like Posty (which I just discovered and LOVE), you can easily join multiple communities at once, or post to one but still read from the others.

11 months ago

in Why Twitter Still Wins on Chris Brogan
Identi.ca launched less than a month ago and already has some impressive tools/integration including tracking over IM. It's open source and the creators REALLY care that you keep control over your own data. What other service can say that?

I'm MarinaMartin on Identi.ca and I encourage people to head over and check it out. It's a viable alternative with lots of new apps/features on the way, a strong core team, and a growing community already.

Once upon a time, I had 5 followers on Twitter. You've got to start somewhere.

11 months ago

in Life in the Clouds on Chris Brogan
I had a lot of problems with Mozy (and when I tweeted about it, a lot of others did, too). If that doesn't work out, try JungleDisk, which I give six stars on a scale of five - simply awesome.

A remote backup is key, because your house can always be robbed or flood, etc. and a Time Machine backup won't be very useful. In a perfect world, you'd have both, as re-downloading 80GB of music isn't anyone's idea of a fun time.

Choose the folders you're backing up carefully. (I'm happy to help you via email.) Then restoring is a breeze. My MacBook HD has died on me twice, plus a clean install of Leopard, and I never lost a thing.

For good measure, I also keep del.icio.us tags called "firefoxextension" and "installed" where I tag websites for any extensions or programs I use. I backup the preferences/files, but it's nice to get a clean copy of the latest version when you're starting over.

11 months ago

in Essential Skills of a Community Manager on Chris Brogan
A community manager needs to be very well-organized. As Community Manager for Elastic Lab, I'm helping them build a nationwide network of filmmakers to draw from for local or geograpically-diverse paying projects. This means I'm interacting in a lot of different places online where filmmakers might be hanging out, and I'd look like an idiot if I didn't recognize people I've interacted with on one forum when on a second site. (I'm sure that day will come, but Highrise + a strong memory keeps me straight.)

Also, you're boring if all you do is talk about the company you work for, no matter how exciting it is. A community manager needs to be well-rounded. I passionately love Elastic Lab, but find it most successful to connect with people when we have multiple shared interests beyond filmmaking - my love of Guinness or Ethiopian food, a geographic area, a recent vacation, etc. We're all humans at core, and there's nothing better than social media to remind us of this.

11 months ago

in Reckless Abandon on Nordquist Blog
I also saw Dark Knight last night and just loved it. I have never seen another Batman movie and usually only see 1-2 movies in theaters each year, so that's a really big compliment from me.

I had never really noticed Heath Ledger before (in fact, I can't say that I've actually seen any of his other films) but his performance in Dark Knight was excellent - deep, nuanced, detailed - and I don't think I felt that way just because I know he's dead now.

Watching it in downtown Seattle made the movie experience even better, with people yelling and clapping at all the right moments. A real sense of anticipation and comraderie. I loved it.

11 months ago

in Buying Carbon Credits on Marina's Musings
I have yet to be convinced that buying a carbon credit DOES anything. It sounds like a (typical) bureaucratic nightmare where I have to somehow trust that the carbon credits I buy from my grocery delivery service are being used for something even remotely resembling an environmentally healthy project. Knock me over and paint me blue if even 5% of the carbon credit funds do anything but pad people's pockets.

I am also wholly intrgued that most liberals think a truly free economic market is evil, but a carbon credit market is the key to salvation. Probably because they also think buying "fair trade" coffee is saving the world when it's really just a marketing scheme.

How about instead of carbon credits I buy people some facts? Harvey Krumpet has a few to spare.

1 year ago

in Here’s What I Realized Today on Nordquist Blog
You make all your Twitter followers smile on a daily basis. You have brightened a dreary day for me more than once. That shouldn't be discounted.

1 year ago

in Maybe There Is Hope on Nordquist Blog
I'm a lot better off than I was eight years ago, or four years ago, or one year ago.

The next President's job is not to make my life better. It's to make it less-worse. A President who did absolutely nothing would be rather lovely at this point. If Obama inches the country closer to socialized medicine, my life will be a lot worse. I am currently just fine paying out of pocket for my own private health insurance.

1 year ago

in Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less than New York on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
I heartily second the 7-11 recommendation. Even their egg salad sandwiches are delicious and not at all like the 7-11s in America.

I stayed in Osaka (south of Tokyo but still a major city) for awhile, and they have fantastic udon shops where you can get a very filling meal and a Sapporo beer for less than $3. Then you can wander the grounds of Osaka-jo (Osaka castle) and read, write, or brainstorm for hours and hours on end. (And play with the wild kitties for a break!) Curry places are also a good bet for cheap fare -- tons of rice and meat for just a few dollars.
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