Archive for June, 2008

237 Folks Show You How to Navigate the Conversational Age, All for a Good Cause

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Age of Conversation

You’ve probably heard the story of how my ego-laden jealousy fit led to participation in a wonderful opportunity.

That, of course, is the honor of contributing to a business book that will be a best seller, help thousands of business people navigate the murky waters of new media, and if that wasn’t enough, all proceeds go to a worthy charity.

The Age of Conversation 2008 edition is now being finalized, and the final names of the 237* authors appearing in it has been posted at Drew McLellan’s site. (He and Gavin Heaton are the books edtiors.)

Now that we have the final tally, I’m looking forward to starting my series about the authors, and attempting to get to know them all.

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More on Ego Boundaries and Social Media

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Matt Williams asked a good question about Ego Boundaries.

What is ego boundaries, and when do you know that you have crossed them?

Here’s my answer, Matt.

Oriented.com Happy Hour - 06/25/08 @ the Lava Lounge, SF
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Learning about the ego is directly related to how we socialize. And socializing online is integral, of course, to social media. So I’ll answer your ego boundary question first, then talk for a sec about how that relates back to when you to check yours in the context of social media.

First, an aside:

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Tool Time Friday | Ever had an ‘All-in-One’?

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Well, you’re about to have a chance.

All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.

Click on the left edge of your browser window to open the sidebar and get easy access to all your panels.

You can set the orientation to left or right, set the minimum, default and maximum width and the behavior on browser startup. Furthermore AiOS provides enhancements for many built-in features.

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Tool Time Friday | I don’t know about you, but sometimes..

Friday, June 27th, 2008

..I make a typographical error when I’m typing a URL in the address bar – usually the extension -  and it pisses me off.

What’s a fellow to do?  Well, let me tell ya’!

Firefox to the rescue!

URL Fixer corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation).

This version will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, and all other mainstream TLDs, as well as the protocol (http:, https:). By right-clicking on the address bar, you can set it to auto-correct your errors, or you can have it ask you before making any corrections.

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Tool Time Friday | You’ve heard of Speed Dial but have you…

Friday, June 27th, 2008

…Heard of Fast Dial?

Fast Dial replaces “about:blank” page with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Click on an empty cell, assign a site URL, click OK – a thumbnail will be generated for a site. You can also add sites opened in browser or existing bookmarks by right-clicking them and choosing “Add to Fast Dial” from context menu.
By checking “Group” checkbox in thumbnail properties you can create groups of nested thumbnails.

You can change thumbnail’s position by drag-n-dropping it. (Hold Ctrl while dragging to move thumbnail into a group).

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There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake…

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Because I’d never run for president. Cool though, isn’t it? Click on it to make one for yourself. If anyone knows how to do this flash trick, contact me ASAP. I have at Least one job for you. :)

(If you’re reading this via feed, and can’t see the video, you’d have to click through and watch it for this to make sense.)

I have to give credit where credit is due – thanks for sending this to me, Mark. I almost didn’t post this because I’m so mad that I didn’t think of it first… :) And congratulations to the winners of the basketball contest.

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Social Media, Ego Boundaries and (a little) Revolver

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

People’s need to protect their own egos knows no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundaries.

Dr. Andrew Samuels
Professor of Analytical Psychooogy, University of Essex

Trauma
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Recently I wrote that there is only one true power of social media.

Before that I said that the simple secret to social media is understanding that it’s about relationships, and that fixing, founding or forgetting a relationship with solve the majority of problems you have with social media.

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Tool Time Friday | Ever been annoyed …

Friday, June 20th, 2008

by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

How to Install in Thunderbird.

  1. Right-click the link below and choose “Save Link As…” to download and save the file to your hard disk.
  2. In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu.
  3. Click the Install button, and locate/select the file you downloaded and click “OK”.

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