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Photo.net Live Blogging from the PMA Show

Photo.net Live Blogging from the PMA Show

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Josh Root, Director of Community at Photo.net is live blogging and tweeting from the floor of the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) trade show in Las Vegas.  The show runs through Thursday.  You can catch the his blog posts at blog.photo.net (I did the blog setup, using WordPress) and his tweet stream at http://twitter.com/photonet. In addition to new products and other show news, he’s running interviews with people like Photoshop Expert Kartin Eismann and Jodi Cobb, photographer from National Geographic.  Be…

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The New England Boat Show 2009

The New England Boat Show 2009

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(Note: I wrote this on the second day of the boat show, but only now, two weeks later have I been able to find the time to process the images…) Yesterday was one of the days I look forward to for the entire year: the day I attend the New England Boat Show at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center on the pier in Boston.  I’ve been attending as long as I can remember, first tagging along with my dad,…

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MediaPost Gets It Wrong – “What Social Media Can Learn From Email Marketing”

MediaPost Gets It Wrong – “What Social Media Can Learn From Email Marketing”

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It’s hard to be taken seriously when you don’t even get the terms straight.  The title of the article and its main premise should of course be “What Social Media MARKETING Can Learn from Email MARKETING.”  Very clearly when Stephanie Miller says “Social media pulls the marketer off the brand pedestal and drags her into the throes of the messy, wild, unpredictable community” she is talking about marketing, not building Social Media.   It’s one thing when a clueless social…

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Boagworld.com: 7 Harsh Truths about Running Online Communities

Boagworld.com: 7 Harsh Truths about Running Online Communities

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Paul Boag’s got another great post this week at Boagworld.com – “7 Harsh Truths about Running Online Communities.”  This is the kind of knowledge you only get by managing online communities, and frankly, every failed community I’ve seen feel prey to one (and more likely, several) of these harsh truths.   Technology doesn’t create a community Show some commitent Learn to lead An antisocial community is your fault You need to swallow your pride Stop trying to control the message…

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Web Development: A Blog to Watch

Web Development: A Blog to Watch

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If you’re not a developer or ever spend time in the engine room of the Internet, ie. working with servers, move on, there’s nothing to see here.  On the other hand, if you do, I’ve got just the blog for you.  Over the past couple months, Matt Sheilds, System Administrator extraordinaire, has resumed blogging at a new site, SysadminValley.com.   If you want quick access to the tips and tricks that will make your Linux servers or MySQL databases hum…

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Social Media, Social (Media) Marketing and Where the Difference Lies…

Social Media, Social (Media) Marketing and Where the Difference Lies…

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I’ve finally put my finger on what it is that’s been chaffing my britches about the new found popularity of Social Media; that is most people are using the wrong term.  They’re not talking about Social Media, they’re talking about  Social Media Marketing. I’m sure a lot of you are saying the same thing right now: “What the heck gives this bozo the right to define what is and what is not Social Media?” Let me answer that for you….

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Manifesto for Social Media: Stop Talking and Start Doing

Manifesto for Social Media: Stop Talking and Start Doing

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I’ve got a serious love/hate relationship going with Social Media.  I absolutely love building social media communities, but I honestly am tired of the blather I’m hearing on twitter and the blogs about it.  My problem is simple: There is too much hot air from people with little or no practical Social Media experience. There it is, the perverbial turd on the carpet – so deal with it.  I’m sick of people telling me “to join the converstation!”  Hell, I…

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Google Social Toolbar

Google Social Toolbar

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I’m ready to vent here.  Are we, as community builders, becoming so lazy that we don’t want to take the time to build in the social media features we want for our sites, the way we want them?  Do we really need to have Google package them up and provide them for us, the way they want them? Two days ago, Google announced they were releasing the Google Social Toolbar, which is really a misnomer, as it isn’t really a…

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Having Blog Trouble…

Having Blog Trouble…

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After my upgrade to 2.7.1 I found I had no visual editor.  After reuploading files, etc. I finally found that I’ve got an issue with one of my plugins.  Not sure which one, but obviously it’s one that interacts with the admin console. Steps to fix the problem if you have a tinymce editor in WordPress 2.7.1 that has stopped working. Refresh the page using ctl-shift-refresh (this is a “hard refresh” which will force everything to reload from the server,…

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