Dave Evans on Twitter & the Metrics Panel at SXSW

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I am posting a short video below that I took over "dinner at Truluck's":http://www.trulucks.com/ in Austin with "Dave Evans'":http://www.digital-voodoo.com/ version of the "Metrics Panel at SXSW":http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060474. Apparently, the … [Read more...]

Audiences are Messy Too

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Yesterday I wrote about "customers being messy":http://www.barefeetstudios.com/2008/03/09/customers-are-messy/, and that it is our job to work with, rather than expect them to use our products and services only as the engineers intended. Well, "audiences can be the … [Read more...]

Reporting Standards Bloggers v Journalists

This is an ongoing discussion, and "@astrout":http://twitter.com/astrout, one of the people I follow on Twitter, is putting together a summary of this debate. Please read his post (I'll update this one with a "link after it's … [Read more...]

Twitter Joins Us on Verio

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Let me start by saying, I'm dropping in on a conversation taking place at Techcrunch, Twitter and on the Joyent blog regarding the continue server outages at Twitter. I use Twitter but have been too busy this past week to even notice their recent round of outages. I found out today they had been … [Read more...]

Pep Talk and Talk Prep for HAF

I'll be speaking this morning at the "Hawaii Advertising Federation's":http://www.hafspot.com annual "university." This is a day when the ad pros come together to network and open minds to new ideas. First off, I say congrats. There is this sticky wicket in that the more a person becomes an … [Read more...]

Old Media and New Media Working Together

I just love it when this happens. We do a daily video podcast aka internet TV show called "Beach Walks with Rox":http://www.beachwalks.tv. Last weekend, "YouTube featured us":http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=rf&t=t&c=19&l=&e=en_US on their Travel channel page. We had over 80,000 views in less than … [Read more...]

How Not to Have Your Company Do Social Networking

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I read "this post on Gawker":http://gawker.com/news/web-2%27doh%21/internal-memo-strips-last-shred-of-dignity-258985.php quoting a memo from the boss at Gawker: bq. Along with Scott's push to update the staff directory, we're asking for a new form of contact information for you, too. We want you … [Read more...]