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Re: Happy birthday to me (and my type-ity type type) on #july6

metafluence — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:52:55 -0000

Looking forward to celebrating with you on the 6th!

Re: Beer brings together area bloggers

metafluence — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:12 -0000

Very cool to see this story in Gloucester Times! Proud to be a part of it :)

Re: Music, Technology, Art, Economy

metafluence — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:08:23 -0000

I've been thinking about using this domain I have laying around called Mister Kistner to be a 21st Century blog on modern etiquette. Could then be turned into a book later. :)

Re: Happy Birthday To Us

metafluence — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:23 -0000

Whoa, Happy Birthday guys!! I remember when we had our eyes set on the 35th Anniversary. The Roxy has come a long way in the past couple of years and is lookin' hot at 35 :)

Re: Does everyone understand what social media is?

metafluence — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:15:17 -0000

I like the way your posts ties much of this discussion together! And this part is money:

Essentially, we use social media throughout our personal and professional lives, but we don’t fully understand the impacts, opportunities and pitfalls because we don’t really have a grasp on what we’re doing...Empowered by that better understanding, we can move past the cacophony of conceptual misunderstandings littered throughout the web and move on to the real work.

I probably doesn't matter to the average person walking around that the use the language correctly. But, somewhere up the line, someone does need to be using it correctly. As part of the pack jockeying to be "experts" in this emerging discipline, we have a vested interest in the terminology working together so we can explain concepts to clients.

This reminds me of the first time I found the site World of Ends. For months afterward I was asking people what they thought the Internet was. Most people said the network, some people said the websites, but no one said the right answer, which was the TCP/IP protocol. We could swap a wired network for a wireless one and still have the Internet. We could move from HTML to a richer language and still have the Internet. But, without the fundamental packet switching protocol underneath (the TCP/IP), we'd have no Internet. That important distinction may not have changed the way the general public incorrectly uses the terms web and Internet interchangeably, but it did improve my understanding of how all of the pieces fit together, which made me better at my job. And, my clients used to *love* learning that the web was only part of the whole Internet. ;)

Re: Dogs and Birds Can Make Social Media (You Can, Too)

metafluence — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:59:24 -0000

The bowerbirds were cool as hell! Enjoyed your post, Bryan. I clipped a portion of it and linked to it from my blog. :)

Re: Weekly Happy Hour for Seattle Startuppers

metafluence — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:12:59 -0000

Go Hops and Chops!! :)

Re: The Biggest Irony on the Internet

metafluence — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:41:31 -0000

Love, LOVE, the term industrial media. It sooo works. I'm officially purging "traditional media" from my professional lexicon.

Re: Who’s Stupider: Men, Women or This Question?

metafluence — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:15:53 -0000

What a bunch of fake pants! Taking safe answers.

If this was a YouTube discussion it would be women are stupider. Until some dude who wants to look good to the ladies says men are stupider, which would only last for a minute before it digressed into someone being a fag and eventually a racist remark.

Re: Friending in Real Life is Easier

metafluence — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:16:34 -0000

I know it's geeky, but I do think it's funny that your packets couldn't be more aware of your proximity with Don. Seems like @mattking would be working on a solution for geo-aware packets ;)

Re: Generation Y For Dummies: We Trail Early Adopters

metafluence — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:37:17 -0000

I'm in between Gen Y and Gen X. It's a great place to be. I grew up without the internet, but was on it by my senior year of high school when the first Netscape hit (def Web 1.0). I've had the advantage of seeing the world without the web, yet I was able to watch it bloom during my late formative years. The generation ahead of me is still resisting the change, and the generation behind me can't see the change. It's a perfect spot because I can speak with the older generation and then turn around and drive the younger generation to deliver. :)

Re: More on PR and Pitching

metafluence — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:36:44 -0000

I was surprised to see people upset about this discussion as well. I felt like RWW was doing a service to the PR world by sharing it's preferences to be pitched via RSS or even Twitter, depending on the author. I thought RWW was kindly tipping it's cards to let people know the best way to reach them. I know *we* appreciated the transparency that RWW displayed, and felt the requests were not only comfortable to accommodate, but that it actually made our job easier. Who could possible be upset about a blog telling PR firms how to create a permanent pipeline to them!! Thanks for your forward thinking here and we're stoked to be a part of the ecosystem with you, which includes connecting over email, Twitter, RSS, and more. ;)