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Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

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When a project ends, good companies do post-mortems to determine what worked, what didn’t to help them improve institutionally, while identifying possible opportunities created, and mitigating any risks exposed. Great companies do this and they do it in a way that the rest of us can benefit as well.  Such is the case of two excellent post Olympics assessments from Lenovo. First off, I’ve got to call attention to Esteban Panzeri’ post “End of Madness Recap” from his blog, “The…

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Geek.com Relaunched

Geek.com Relaunched

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For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals.  We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.   This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That…

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How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com

How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com

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How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com. A great post that really brings to light a lot of questions about how authority on the web is defined. Personally, when I think of Alexa, I think of the time when I had  Reel-time.com readers install the Alexa Toolbar.  Even though we were a niche site, we were able to get it into the sub-10,000 list which is a place that no niche site should turn up. So, for the record,…

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5 Simple Mistakes Bloggers Make

5 Simple Mistakes Bloggers Make

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I wish I could tell you that I never made any of these mistakes, but that just isn’t true.  A couple of these items have cost me dearly, and honestly, the first one I have learned not once, but twice. If you’re starting out, this list can save you a lot of trouble in the future.  If you’re an experienced blogger, you may find some pain down there: Own your domain – I’ve had lots of calls looking for help…

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Aaron Strout in Boston Globe

Aaron Strout in Boston Globe

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The Boston Globe this morning “Working the Network” about how employers are and job seekers are using social networking.  It prominently features Aaron Strout of Mzinga (on twitter, he’s astrout and definitely worth following – I do…) . The salient point in the article is that we need to be very careful what we put on line now.  The article, quoting a recent college grad:

The True Gold of Blogging – Link Relevance

The True Gold of Blogging – Link Relevance

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Throughout new media, we keep hearing one term over and over again: relevance.  The ad networks seek to provide relevant ads, we try to provide relevant content, we all seek relevent metrics to judge our success. Merriam-Webster defines relevance as: 1 a: relation to the matter at hand b: practical and especially social applicability : pertinence <giving relevance to college courses>2: the ability (as of an information retrieval system) to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of the user Many of the links we get aren’t really relevant.  This…

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Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

Building Blog Readership – An Evolving World

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When I started this site in March, after I stopped working with Vario Creative, where I had previously been blogging, I expected that the same traffic building steps that had worked for me before would work here.  After 5 months, I can safely say, that’s not the case. You see, when I started blogging at Vario, the important keys to getting readership were Technorati position and getting trackbacks from other sites.  In today’s world of sploggers and spammers, the trackback…

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WordPress as a Small Business Content Management System

WordPress as a Small Business Content Management System

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I’ve been telling everyone for a while that WordPress is a Content Management System – now I’m ready to prove it.  I’ve set up a small site for The National Gallery and Gift Shop in Sutton, MA using WordPress and I’m thrilled with the way it’s turned out.   Before I mention the features of what has been setup, you need to know one thing – I was able to train them how to enter content, manage their calendar and…

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Week 4 – Online Community Building Field Test

Week 4 – Online Community Building Field Test

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The march to success continues.  This week: We’ve jumped to 112 registrations from the first day of our trial. We’ve had several users starting to post on their personal blogs. I had a request to create a new forum for the Bicycle Commuter – and got the forum up in a couple minutes. We were helped by the news today that Lance Armstrong will return to next years Tour De France. Again, I’ve been too busy with normal responsibilities both…

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Online Community Building Field Test – Week 3

Online Community Building Field Test – Week 3

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(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) I was really, really caught up with other issues last week, but even with that, the experiment somehow managed to continue rolling along on it’s own, which honestly is a big surprise to me. The cycling.com server was upgraded to use the Akamai Dynamic Site Accellerator system, which has greatly increased page rendering speeds.  It’s not something a user would generally notice, but a…

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