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Re: The Secret Fight Club

ron_miller — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:38:50 -0000

Chris,
You are channeling Seth Godin today. And I say that as the highest form of compliment. Not sure how I feel about comparing a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun with the good will you associate with social media, but I get where you're going with this.

By the way, we had our own "fight club" connection moment when we stumbled into one another at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston in the rain and spontaneously shared a cab. It was great meeting you in person.

Re: Dunkin Run- Coffee Lovers Are Served

ron_miller — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:36:51 -0000

I love this Greg. Marketers should paste this comment to their monitors, especially:

"Mobile marketing should never never never (did I say "never"?) actually be about marketing. It should always be about utility."

Nicely said.

Ron Miller
Co-Founder, www.socmedia101.com

Re: 23 Essential Elements of Sharable Blog Posts

ron_miller — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:11:49 -0000

These are great ideas and certainly it can't hurt to try these things. As I wrote in a post this morning on my socmedia101.com blog, don't let anyone tell you there is a tried and true way to drive traffic to your blog because if there were, I like to say I would bottle it and sell it.

That said, your 23 ideas give people a starting point, but one never knows what catches the fancy of the public and what makes people click through or link to you. It's just not an exact science, even those of us who blog regularly wish it were.

Ron

Re: The Next Media Company

ron_miller — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:03:26 -0000

Hey Chris:
Great to see you exploring this. Here's my take in this week's FierceContentManagement Editor's Corner:

Searching for new models to make content pay online:
http://www.fiercecontentman...

Re: How Many Chores Does It All Add

ron_miller — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:53:41 -0000

Much like you, I build social media into my day. It's part of what I do, therefore I don't necessarily look at my social networking activities as extra work. In fact, I find over time that I often get article and blog ideas while working my social network sites. What's more I have formed business relationships through these tools. I promote my work and stay connected to folks I'm interested in and care about. These tools actually help me do my job better.

Re: Social media backlash or Advertising Age comment trolls?

ron_miller — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:16:30 -0000

Is this a new look for the blog? I love it. What you say is so true. People who scoff at Twitter don't understand. Look for a post coming up from me on my first thoughts about Twitter, (which really surprised me when I read my own words). Like any other form of communication, Twitter is what you make of it. If you participate, give and take, share good information, let the world know a little about who you are, good things follow. People can and do make real business connections on Twitter all the time. People who scoff at it really haven't taken the time to understand it. Once you get it, it's hard not to think it's a great way to communicate with people.

Re: The Rise of Microfame

ron_miller — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:06:42 -0000

Microfame is a great term. I think it speaks directly to Seth Godin's tribes concept. Many people may not know who you are, but if you're well known in your tribe, you're doing something right.

Once again, great job at articulating something that's out there, but many of us haven't considered yet.

Ron Miller
by Ron Miller blog

Re: What Storytellers Can Do In Real Time

ron_miller — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:36:57 -0000

Chris,
Hey Chris:
Another great post.

You make a good point, but as I read your piece, I had the same thoughts as @Alain Sherter. While getting the word out there and the discussion started in real time is very cool indeed, and I think it's an essential part of news gathering as we know it moving forward, what you are doing essentially is blogging/Twittering the dog and pony show. Sure, you can add your comments, but there is little time to provide and really insightful analysis while trying to keep up with what's going on around you.

That's for the bloggers/journalists to do later. So while I think you did a great service putting out the word as it happened, what you did and what the paper notes guys were doing were not mutually exclusive and I hope never will be. There's plenty of room for everyone in the social media tent. :-)

Ron Miller
by Ron Miller Blog
http://byronmiller.typepad.com

Re: Will the next generation Zune be a software platform? - mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday

ron_miller — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:58:36 -0000

Interesting idea, Michael and it's certainly better in my view than continuing to try to play in the same space with Apple with a player that has only minuscule market share. I like your idea of linking desktop and mobile, although there are companies doing that today and probably better than Microsoft, but depending on how they approach it, it certainly could make sense to have an integration point from Microsoft for folks working in an all-Windows environment.

Ron Miller
By Ron Miller Blog
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Re: Privateers- Backing Your Pirate Ships

ron_miller — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:38:38 -0000

Chris:
The consulting arm seems like a logical step to me. Who knows more about social networking than you do. You are probably so immersed in it, that you don't have a sense of how valuable your knowledge is, but you have to figure there are plenty of companies that want to adopt Web 2.0, but don't have a clue where to start. You can share what you know and make a nice living at it too.

Good luck with the venture. I honestly can't think of anyone better suited to the job than you.

Ron Miller
By Ron Miller
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Re: Remember the Root Goal

ron_miller — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:45:57 -0000

Hi Chris:
It's about the content and the quality of your writing. All the rest of that stuff, the social networking and the publicizing is just to get people to read it. You can write the best content in the world, but if nobody shows up,the content is lost in the vast internet shuffle. If we forget the content in lieu of the socializing, we have missed the point of what we do.

Re: Citizen Journalists Arent Evil

ron_miller — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:50:49 -0000

I agree Chris. It's one story. It doesn't mean that the entire concept is suddenly bad. As you rightly point out, mainstream journalists and people in other fields also make errors. Everybody is human. I don't see why Citizen Journalists should be held to a higher standard. People are still learning and you can be sure that people who follow Citizen Journalism are acutely aware after this incident that fact checking is job one for every journalist.

Ron Miller
http://byronmiller.typepad.com

Re: Halloween Costumes for Kids

ron_miller — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:42:35 -0000

This is a holiday where you let the kids take the lead. You don't want to spend a fortune on the costume, so there are limits when it comes to purchasing one, but beyond the cost, it's up the children to decide what they want to be and how they want to go about it.

Certainly, it's a time to encourage kids to be creative and looking at what's available or what you can make from existing materials is a good lesson for kids that not everything has to come in a package from a store. If your child really wants to be someone special and you (or they) can't figure out how to do it, you need to set a budget and work out how to go about it. After all, costumes are typically one and done, although my kids always put them in the dress-up box so they got more use even after Halloween was over.

Ron Miller
http://byronmiller.typepad.com

Re: Sleep, Sleep & NO SLEEP…

ron_miller — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:47:54 -0000

I remember shortly before my daughter was born (close to 17 years ago now) people advised me to catch up on my sleep before the birth as though you could put sleep in the sleep bank and cash in later. I am grateful that my child slept through the night (or at least what passes for the night for a baby) early on. But the big picture story here is you're a dad and you're involved and you and your wife should enjoy every moment because each stage passes in the blink of an eye. As for this early time, she will sleep the night eventually. The feedings will get easier. Congratulations on being a Dad.

Ron Miller
http://byronmiller.typepad.com

Re: Glubble, a New and Safe Way for Your Kids to Play Online

ron_miller — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:59:50 -0000

Hi:
Do you have a similar product that you could recommend for my soon to-be 13 year old? He knows I want to monitor, but I haven't figured out the best way to do it. If you or anyone else has any ideas, I would appreciate it.

And I can't use the OS controls in Vista because he needs to be the Admin to mess around with his games. Tried that one already. :)

Re: When Should Kids Have Cell Phones

ron_miller — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:23:06 -0000

We didn't get our children cell phones until they went into the 7th grade, which is the start of Middle School in our area. We figured this was a good age because the kids were more likely to need to communicate with us and to begin to have more spontaneous activities with friends.

One big gottcha with the cell phone was instant messaging. Our daughter didn't seem to get that we paid by the message and we got a big bill the first month. We eventually moved her to $5.00 a month plan (which she paid from her allowance), but she outgrew that too. When my son went into the 7th grade recently, we threw in the towel and bought an unlimited family messaging plan.

The lesson here is to make sure your kids understand that it costs to send and receive calls and to send and receive IMs (and never go on the Internet on the phone).

Ron Miller
By Ron Miller Blog
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