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May 14th, 2008

Citizen Journalism

 
Since I’ve been writing for b5Media, I’ve found myself thinking more about citizen journalism vs traditional journalism. I think that everyone has to face the fact that we’re entering a new world, one that is more focused on peer-to-peer communications than we are someone providing news to us. Just look at how many more blogs […]

By Colleen -- 4 comments

May 10th, 2008

Managing the beast that is RSS

Now that I’ve got a several writing gigs, I need to read, a lot. A lot of news, a lot of opinions, a lot of sites.
Tris Hussey pointed me in the direction of AideRSS, which is a very slick little tool to help calm the savage RSS beast.
AideRSS uses a slick technology which […]

By Colleen -- 2 comments

May 9th, 2008

Word of Mouse

No, we’re not talking about Disney here.
I’m talking about sing the web to spread your message virally. David M. Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR has offered BuzzNetworker readers a free e-book download.
I’ll be speaking David in the coming weeks and I’m on his list for review copies of […]

By Colleen -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2008

What Analytics Do Use?

Today I had to write a response about a presentation regarding analytics specifically server houses versus web. However I think for this blog a lot of people are already rather knowledgeable about that subject so I would like to dive into what I use and why I use them.
Currently on my personal blog I use […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

April 15th, 2008

Designing for Children in Mind

I have seen a lot of people designing blog pages recently that were targeted for kids or subject that kids might be interested in. There has been a rise in webkinz and other subject specific blogs that kids would be interested in. One of the things that I find funny about some of these sites […]

By Kevin -- 2 comments

April 14th, 2008

Goal of Universal Usability/Accessibility

Time to dive back into interface design and topic that a lot of people usually don’t think about when designing a website or application, universal usability and accessibility. The World Wide Web Consortium developed guidelines for accessibility called Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 which helps develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

April 13th, 2008

Are you losing blog comments and traffic BECAUSE of social media

I read this post earlier today, thought I would share it:
Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners’ Ire?
Tags: Blogging, commenting, Social-Media, Web 2.0Share This

By Kevin -- 0 comments

April 8th, 2008

Social Media Groups on Mixx

Yesterday I mentioned that I joined some various groups on Mixx.com that related to social media. Being the forgetful guy that I am I didn’t include the links to the groups. Here they are:
General
Mixx Shouts
AAALL Vote for ALL! 
Mixxing the Web 
Social Media
Social Media Mavens 
Social Networking News 
Social Media Consultants 
Any groups that you would like to share?
Tags: groups, […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

Mixxing It Up

In the last two weeks I have begun to take time out and target mixx.com a little bit more.
Over the last couple of months I have seen multiple posts  hailing the importance of mixx:
 Forget Digg: Join Mixx Where You Can Still Become a Power User
 7 Reasons Why Mixx is Better Than Digg
Mixx Gets Credibility Boost […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

April 4th, 2008

Interview with the Blog Catalog Team

I am a pretty big supporter of blogcatalog.com and recently while on mixx.com I came across this interview with them.
Just wanted to share because I thought it was a good read.
The Blog Catalog Team Speaks….
Tags: , Blog Catalog, Social-Media, social-networkingShare This

By Kevin -- 0 comments

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