Okay, all you wanna be corporate social media flacks, repeat after me: Brands don’t blog…people do. A new theme doesn’t make up for lack of compelling content. Do not expect your developer/designer to make up for your lack of a content strategy. If you can’t find one person in the corporation worthy of blogging in the first person, you shouldn’t have a blog. If you fancy yourself the market leader, then blog like it, damn it! We do not do…
Over the past two months I’ve had a look at two different sites running on WordPress that were running on Windows Servers. In both cases, the sites were having issues, and in both cases, they could not get simple functionality they wanted to work on the servers and ended up moving to Linux hosting. Does WordPress run on Windows? Yes, most definitely. I can attest that I’ve run serveral installations going back to the old 1.x days. The problem is…
I’ve been using Twitter now for 2.5 years. Honestly, I’m still grappling with the question: what the heck is Twitter? Wikipedia, never short for answers has this: Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page. That’s not really what I’m looking for. You see, I certainly know what it is, in terms…
Ministry of Silly Walks – Monty Python. Because its definitely that sort of day…
Excellent video of “Don’t Panic” from Chris Amodeo off his debut album, Homo Luminous… Dig Deeper: Chris’ website http://homo-luminous.com/ (This alone is worth a visit – a very wonderful and different design…) On Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Chris-Amodeo-Homo-Luminous/133986026631106
It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with the substance of Social Media. There’s a reason for that. Mostly its become that which I always said it would: simply a tool in the toolbox of the community developer. So where are we now, really? We’ve certainly passed the point where Social Media was the next big thing. While not all the cool kids have moved on, there are signs that even the most ardent NMDBs are tired of the endless…
They’re playing a rare happy hour gig at Ralph’s Chadwick Square Grill in Worcester today from 5-8. Be there, and mention this blog post and your first beer is on me. Limited to the first 5 takers.
Misquamicut Beach was more crowded than I’ve ever seen it. The state beach closed early and word was out there wasn’t a grain of sand to be seen between the blankets. the girls had a blast. MacKenzie playing in the surf while Madison dug the biggest hole I’ve ever seen. she could dig foxholes for the army.
For me, the definitive version of a song covered more times than a Senator’s gluteous maximus. Janis at her best…evoking at once both hope and a unique sense of loss that the other artists fail to catch.