Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Here’s a graphic I did for my company Spork Media explaining how an ideal social media setup for a restaurant. Click through for a detailed explanation. Who doesn’t love flowcharts?
After a few years of honing and balancing my various social media profiles and blogs, here’s how I have the information flowing. This doesn’t represent every last thing I put on the web, but it does cover the tools I use regularly.
Also filed in autobio, social media
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Tagged blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, seo, social media, social networks, tumblr, twitter, wordpress
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What better place to learn about social media best practices than from social media? Most of what I know about the subject I learned from my Delicious network and Twitter feed. I collect the most noteworthy items under my Socialmedia tag on Delicious.
Also filed in social media
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Tagged blogging, copywriting, facebook, internet, marketing, networks, pr, self promotion, social media, social networks, twitter
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If anyone comes to me wanting a web site, I try to convince them they should have a blog, specifically, a WordPress blog. I’m doing several web sites for clients that use WordPress. The more I work with this platform, the more I come to love it. WordPress is free, hacker-friendly and supported by an [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]
Also filed in social media
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Tagged blogger, blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, google, internet, iphone, merlin mann, posterous, pr, seo, social media, spam, tagging, tumblr, twitter, wordpress, writing
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Anna watched me Twitter over my shoulder for a while, and then announced: “I get it. It’s a video game where you compete for attention from strangers on the internet.” She’s completely correct. Having a web presence is a real-world immersive internet game where the scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. Like any [...]
Also filed in autobio, hardware, software
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Tagged attention, blogging, civilization, recursion, simcity, social media, social networks, stats, twitter, video games, wordpress
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
Also filed in music, software
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Tagged book, daft punk, delicious, design, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, internet, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, reason, remixes, sequencing, social media, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
It was only a matter of time before the Autotune The News people got T-Pain on board. The newest version of this software lets you sing with Auto-tune over anything in your iTunes library. Pretty amazing hip-hop and electronica scratchpad, except that it crashes two minutes into each recording. Still. Auto-tune the Pro Tools plug-in [...]
Also filed in hardware, music, software
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Tagged advertising, autotune, book, fan art, hip-hop, interface, iphone, karaoke, social media, t-pain
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Rhymefest is best known for co-writing “Jesus Walks” with Kanye West. He did this incredible Michael Jackson mixtape with Mark Ronson and a slew of A-list guest stars, a whole year before MJ died while the rest of the world was sleeping on him. Click for the free download:
