Social media anthropologist. Communications strategist. Business model junkie.
Husband of Jen. Father of 3.
Gen X, indie rock, mountain biker.
This is a collection of notes, thoughts and pics that I've created, collected and then scattered across the Web.
My blogs:
New Comm Biz
Hyper Bored
Wall Notes
Disclaimer: If it’s even vaguely technology related I represent someone who has an interest in that field.
See my disclosures.
Other than finish a presentation for the WaggEd board and refereeing my sons soccer game, my plans for the weekend include:
Setting up our home media server
Updating my and my wife's WordPress blogs
Setting up my Tumblr music blog with it's own domain
Playing around with this Posterous' themeing
Changing out the theme on HyperBored
And research better hosting options since I'm not thrilled with mine. Don't hate it just don't love it.
From: New Comm Biz » Your Weaknesses are your Greatest Weapons
Here’s my recipe for success:
Turn your weaknesses into strength, prove people wrong and then beat them over the head with it.
BTW this is also one my of recipes for happiness 
Social media has been my primary job for 5 years. Granted those first few years it was alot more trying to sell people social so I could then do it but each year the work continues to increase. I'm now at the point where 8-10 hours each day is nothing but putting together social media strategies or implementing those strategies. Part of me thinks I have no reason to complain because I have everything I ever wanted. But there are a few things I didn't count on.
Not being able to tell anyone:
I get to work on some amazing projects with some amazing clients and I can't tell you about it. That's hard for me. But some of it is of strategic advantage to my clients and some of it just hasn't rolled out yet. I promise to share what I can.
Watching the fringe go main stream:
I've blogged about this before but every trend starts at the fringe and as it gains main stream acceptance it becomes watered down. When you join a trend on the fringe it can be painful to watch it go main stream.
Staying grounded:
I've blogged about this before to but when you live, eat and breathe this stuff you sometimes loose the ability (or interest) in talking about anything else. Dr's suffer from this as well, they become so specialized in what they do that they can't carry on conversations with non Dr's.
Knowing that it's all going to end:
Eventually social will just ne the way things are. In a few years I doubt we'll have social media specialists anymore. When that happens I wonder what a lot of us will do? Some have always been marketing or digital focused and they'll stay that way. Others will always be looking for the next big thing. I don't know what I'll do, I really don't.
What about you? What do you find the hardest part of working in this space?
I'm off to a good start. I got 0 feeds (for now) and my work inbox is (all but) empty and I've already posted a couple of posts on my regular blog. Let's see how long I can stay ahead of things.
I went through all my old Zemashup alert posts (see Zemashup tag to) I had been doing and cleaned out the crappy code that's left over from Google email alerts by copying everything over into Windows Live Writer and then copying it back.
Leaving Zemanta on the whole time it read each post and brought back
recommendations. Being the dork that I am I then went through those results and
kind of hacked them into what you see below.I actually had to go in tweak the HTML that Zemanta uses in the post.
I had a college poetry professor who called this Found Art. Most people would probably (rightfully so) call it ‘noise’.
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When I first set up this account 6 months ago I had no idea what to do with it. I'd heard of Posterous but didn't need another blog. Then Zemanta started working with Gmail and I had 3 toys in one to playh with. Then I started adding Google Alerts to the mix and I had some fun but it was pretty pointless.
Then Posterous expanded their service to act as a Web CMS for (almost) all of your sites/services and things got interesting. Some people walked away from their blogs all together some of us realized that life streaming could be a place to keep all our thoughts.
I never expected this to become much. I still don't know that it will but none the less it is evolving. Don't know if anyone's listening but if you are, thanks.
As I get ready to call it a day and I reflect back on all the content I created (I'm sure I'll have several less subscribers tomorrow), I'm struck by the importance of workflow.
People think that 2 or 3 blog posts is hard. It's really not. I didn't create that much new content that I wasn't going to create anyway. What you read today was content from emails, social bookmarking and tweets. What was original content was expanded thoughts building off of that content or heated, in the moment thoughts as I discovered something new or thought provoking.
I've also posted using multiple tools. I've used Windows Live Writer and Scribefire, both with the Zemanta plugin. I've posted text, pictures and audio. I've used the WordPress blog interface, Diigo and Gmail via Posterous (right now I'm writing on my iTouch in Gmail). In addition to the content you see here there were also posts to the Studio D WaggEd blog, posts on Posterous that didn't make it hear and a post to my Tumblr blog. Plus I have 3 posts already for tomorrow. And I did all this with a full day of client meetings and still
getting deliverables done on time.
I do all this not because I think you are all that interested in my every thought (actually I think I over did it today) but because I know that other than strategic thinking the ability to create and distribute targeted, real time content will be marketers #1 most needed skillset. #2 is the ability to teach that to others. And the only way to do that is to know the tools and they aren't word processors and presentation decks.
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