I’ve recently found myself in advisory capacities for a few projects that are in planning or development stages (none are launched yet).  My background is *not* marketing, specifically, although I’ve been involved in a number of web projects’ launches or relaunches over the last 13 years. Having said that, I’ve found myself giving similar advice [...]

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I relaunched the PHP Job Hunter Handbook blog.  After a job move last summer, and the book getting shifted from self-publish to external publisher, I unfortunately let the blog grow stale.  I’ve relaunched it today with an explanation about what happened, and some more detail about the progress of the book over the last year.
Also, [...]

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As probably some of you out there can relate to, I can go through up and down cycles - periods where you’re really fired up on a project or goal, then the inevitable periods of backsliding.  I’ve been going through a couple of those the past several months, but was revitalized (again) by Jared Richardson.  [...]

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I put up a job board for web developers which I’m going to promote in a webdevradio podcast shortly (likely tomorrow) which I hope will get the word out a bit more. I’ve got a couple ideas on promoting it, and also for a couple variations on the idea as opposed to the open-ended [...]

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TechCrunch has a story on a recently funded Facebook app which, frankly, seems stupid.  Buying and selling ‘friends’ as ‘pets’.  People have already sold me somehow on Facebook, and I just ignore it.  I don’t get it.  I thought MySpace was the place for stupid/flitty ideas, but it seems Facebook is moving in that direction, [...]

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IttyBiz has an insightful-yet-still-just-commonsense view of what’s happening with Social Media.  The insightful aspect is that someone’s actually got the clarity to recognize the shift right now, and the commonsense aspect is “of course, what did we expect?”
I don’t have much to say explicitly about that article, but it’s made me think a bit about [...]

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This is just a short one from Chicago, talking some about the upcoming interview with Patrick O’Keefe about his new book, Managing Online Forums.  I’ve got a copy to give away, as well as a copy of “Dreamweaver 8 - The Missing Manual”.  To enter in to the drawing for the book, send in a [...]

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Testing out the new Wordpress 2.5 release. There are some slick aspects to it, and it’s been cleaned up some. However, it’s still Wordpress, for better or for worse. I guess it’s mostly “for better” (I’m still using it!) but there are some things that still bug me which I was hoping [...]

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I stumbled on Nathan Snell’s blog today after he followed me on Twitter. I don’t know much about Nathan except his writing, but he’s got some good stuff so far. His reaction to Starbucks’ recent “social network” approach was spot on, imo.
I met up with many from the local Triangle area Twitter/SocialMedia groups, [...]

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Robert Scoble just switched his home pages from TechMeme to FriendFeed.
“So what?” is likely what you’re thinking. Yeah, big deal, right? Well, TechMeme had a clustering algorithm which would group together news articles of related content, and give you a good idea of the ‘hot topics’ of the day. It did this [...]

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