What it Felt Like to Have No Blog for 8 Days | chrisbrogan.com
March 15, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
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I just thought I’d take a moment to let the people who follow my own blog know that fellow blogger and personal-branding and social media guru Chris Brogan is back online after 8 crazy nights of having no blog.
I think Chris handled the situation very well, he certainly had a lot of support from all of his tech-centric followers. I’m just glad to have him back up and running.
In no way was he out of touch with his community while his site was on hiatus. Chris kept on Tweeting away, and wrote a couple of times on his Tumblog which he mapped over to his own site.
It figures of course that something as major as having your site fail on you happens when you’re in the middle of conference season and with SxSW where I’m sure Chris was a big hit.
This incident just goes to show you however that keeping and maintaining backups of your data is VERY important. Especially when you have as much content floating around on the web as Chris does.
Writing More Effective Email (via ChrisBrogan.com)
February 19, 2008 by Jonathan · 1 Comment
(Via [chrisbrogan.com].)
Are you catching a theme yet? I read Chris Brogan’s blog religiously and I love responding to his posts on my blog. Why? Because he’s very good at vocalizing things that I’ve got floating around in my mind but never got a chance to write down.
I consider him slight more than n Internet ‘friendly’ as he puts is although I do track him on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
I thought that I would write up a quick response to his latest article about writing effective email. I love his point to not bury the lead, I get and even find myself sending more email where my actual point could be summarized in the Subject line, yet I wrote a novel of 300 words or more explaining myself when honestly, the person I’m writing too probably already knows what I think by virtue of knowing me.
This isn’t to say that extremely short emails are always the answer, just that I think you should give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes and realize that they probably do actually understand your reasoning without saying so (unless you know they don’t or you’re playing office politics and creating a paper-trail for your promotion!)
ALL CAPPED primary words in the email Subject line is infinitely important in my opinion, it’s a great way to 1) Get your point across 2) Not waste anyone’s time and 3) Get noticed in the inbox.
It serves as a sort of nonverbal cue to pay attention, and lead the receiver into knowing what you’re writing about before you’ve even started ‘writing’ your email.
All in all, a very good post and very useful information from Chris Brogan again today, check out the link about to read his full report.
Solving Problems and Creating New ones
February 12, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
This post was inspired by Chris Brogan’s post Problems.
I consider myself not only a problem solver in the traditional sense, but I think I do a good job of taking those problems, and solutions, and making something more out of them. I don’t think that just solving problems is the answer, you have to take those problems, realize what the upsides and downsides of them are, them contemplate and implement a plan of attack.
That flow works well for problem solvers I think, however that model is threatened by the problem solving workflow of today that includes social networking and (im)personal communication using technology as a tool.
That’s not to say that by using technology to your advantage you’re going to solve more problems but I think that by using those new tools like mind-mapping and syndication, and microblogs you open yourself up to new ways of solving problems.
And that’s where I consider myself, at a point where a single problem isn’t just a single problem but a collection of thoughts and ideas and the real solution is finding the best way to disrupt that problem while maintaining innovation in the solution.
So yes, I consider myself a problem solver, but the problems that I solve aren’t always the most pressing, or the most immediate problems, but they do provide a means to solve bigger and greater problems leading us to a solution to the Big Picture.
Whether it be at work, at school, or at home Chris had it right, we’re a big group of problem solvers. The ways in which we solve and handle those problems is the big difference between different types of people and their problem solving ability.
Very interesting post this morning by Chris and I thought I’d add a little to the discourse!
How I Want To Use Twitter
February 8, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
I’ve been on Twitter for a while now, and my usage just keeps climbing, I really feel like a part of the community and want to share not only my knowledge with Twitter, but others as well. Twitter works for me in several ways, it provides a way for me to share my thoughts and ideas, a way to communicate and share with others, and a way to keep abreast on information no matter the topic.
I make generous use of the ‘Track’ command on Twitter for my cell phone. Although I sometimes get carried away and Track too many, or too hot a topic. During the Macworld 2008 Keynote a few short weeks ago, I tracked ‘MacWorld’ and ‘Steve jobs’ so yes, I’m partially responsible for the crash of Twitter during the keynote.
The information that I gained from hearing what others has to say about the product launches and the Reality Distortion Field was very interesting and useful. Getting that kind of insight into public opinion and thinking should prove extremely useful for the modern marketer.
Granted, I got over 1,100 text messages that morning alone, basically 1 every second, as fast as my iPhone could process them and print them on screen.
It’s times like that when Twitter really shines, it truly is an aggregator of infinite knowledge. I now have almost 200 followers on Twitter and I’m very proud for getting to that point, but the thing is this, I’m not doing enough to engage the minds of those who follow me. That’s the problem I’m currently working through, how do I motivate them to interact and ask and answer questions.
Some people like Chris Brogan and Jim Long have been on Twitter much longer than I have, but they have that special mix of followers (listeners) and true audience (interacters).
I’ll cut this particular post off at this point, but I think that I continue to use Twitter, that’s my goal, to interact more without loosing more time to using the web/txt interfaces, I need more interaction and networking within Twitter that I can integrate into my existing workflows.
Elements of a Personal Brand : [chrisbrogan.com]
November 16, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Elements of a Personal Brand : [chrisbrogan.com]
I know I’ve recommended you read Chris Brogan’s blog before, but he posted a very interesting and useful article about personal branding and making sure that you are taking advantage of every opportunity to brand yourself for your career.
Chris is a great guy, and I enjoy being social-network friends with him (we haven’t met in person yet, but I’m eyeing some conferences that he’s attending in the near future).
If you haven’t already, I’d suggest subscribing to his RSS feed, his posts are usually very useful and action oriented. If nothing else, he inspires me.
Social Media Strategy, What’s Yours?
October 11, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
One of my favorite things right now is social-media strategy and figuring out how and what is going to make people take actions in response to a social-media application or device. It’s something that has interested me for a while now, and honestly, I probably should spend less time thinking about it, and more time acting on it and of course finishing all of my other projects!
I would like to encourage you to take a look at this link from Chris Brogan’s blog, he’s typically quite insightful when it comes to new-media and cool-things-on-the-web. His social media strategy is that of branding himself as a thought-leader more than likely in order to advance his career options. I also think he has some fun with it too!
If that’s not his strategy, well I just gave you mine then. I use social media all the time, I create new avenues for social-media, I use social-media, why else do you get over 1,000 results when you Google my public Internet Identity? (no, not all of the 1300ish results are me, but pretty close to it!)
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