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Social Media

WordPress hack is nasty – check your site security

May 8, 2010

If you run a WordPress blog, drop everything and go check your blog security!  Wait… I mean drop everything except reading this blog.  Read, then drop.  Right, hope that is sorted out now. The point is that there is apparently a security hole in WordPress that is A) a serious pain in the ass, and [...]

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Know a great Valley non-profit that could use some help?

April 8, 2010

Image by penguincakes via Flickr Through an odd series of events over the past two years I ended up involved in the crazy, passionate, chaotic world of Phoenix non-profit groups and events. I’ve been constantly impressed by the amazing things going on locally on an independent level, and constantly horrified at how difficult it is [...]

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Quest for Power: iPhone charging device for SXSW

February 9, 2010

I’m headed to South By Southwest this March, and one thing I learned last year was to be prepared for mass amounts of personal device power consumption. Not that AT&T is likely to have their towers actually serving up a usable signal when the hordes descend upon Austin, but it is conceivable I may find [...]

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Losing my faith in Community

January 19, 2010

I started 2009 curious about community, by September I was being quoted about it in articles, but I left 2009 almost entirely convinced that “community” is a waste of time. Not the people but the term itself. It has become a phantom banner that people wave to try and rally a cause – don’t we [...]

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What my Twitter cloud does (and doesn’t) say about me

November 30, 2009

Twitter now allows you to build lists of people that you think others should follow, and group them into categories. The idea is to allow others to subscribe to those lists as a single group, based on topic.  A few weeks back the most excellent Jay Baer posted on his Convince and Convert blog an [...]

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Back to Basics

November 15, 2009

After a most bizarre and educational few months, I’m clearing some time to get back to writing.  I’m working my way through my many blogs, starting with this one and Writing is Cake.  I just migrated this to a new host and cleaned up a lot of out of date plug ins. This post is [...]

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SXSWi ’09: Recap, Recollection, Recommendations

March 20, 2009

Just back from attending my first South by Southwest, and it was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be, only better. In no particular order, here are the things I learned or had affirmed: You can’t do it all – Heard that warning 100 times leading up to SXSW and it was absolutely [...]

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Restaurants to try at SXSWi 2009

March 10, 2009

I’m headed to South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, for the first time this week, and am quite excited. I’ve been wanting to visit Austin for quite a while, and see SXSW on top of it. Of course, I cannot be expected to endure such complete geekery without proper food so did some asking [...]

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Know me by my Moo

February 23, 2009

In my meandering exploration of this whole idea of personal branding, I decided it was past time to get some personal cards. “Business cards” doesn’t quite cover it, since I’m not exactly an “all business” kind of fellow. I was inspired (again) by Tomas Carrillo and his new Moo cards, but my creative talents are [...]

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Social Media Stupid Metaphor Exercise (bel Grande)

December 9, 2008

I’m prone to random ideas, and last week it struck me that just about any danged crazy thing could (or has) been used as metaphor for Social Media, Web 2.0, or whatever you want to call this stuff. I had some time waiting for a program to install, so I threw out onto Twitter for [...]

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