Developing Online Platforms, Building Community
I’ve done it, people. I’ve nuked my Google Reader. I just deleted 238 feeds, in less than six clicks. Why? Because I was tired of the noise. Blogging often calls for a delicate balance of signal and noise. With more and more diverse bodies broadcasting, I’ve collected a long list of subscriptions over the years; [...]
We want to think outside the box – but then end up being too far from the box to be recognizable. Being too close to the work gets us in trouble for different reasons; it means we limit ourselves and don’t take advantage of opportunities others see for innovation. Measuring your proximity takes a particular [...]
Last July, Justin Kownacki and I offered the Read it All Week challenge – to see what kind of effect forcing yourself to work through everything in your RSS reader queue would have on your personal media production, on your work habits, and on your life in general. The question is simple; does consuming all [...]
When I was learning to ski for biathlon in the mid-nineties, I didn’t start with expensive, awesome tools. My first skis weren’t full-capped Rosignols, my first boots weren’t high-end Solomons. My skis, boots, and poles were hand-me-downs. We called these hand-me-downs rock skis because they’d been chewed up with use, and having lost bits of [...]
One of the debates bloggers suffer under is the debate over Voice. If you work for a company, do you act the company puppet, and portray yourself as all business, all the time? Do you go rogue and make yourself heard as a source on the inside lines? What we forget is that each blog [...]
This week’s #blogchat focused on engagement – comments got all the cred. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised – comments are great. They exist on your platform, they’re relatively long-form compared to some other reactions (like tweets and Facebook comments), but it felt like the really big, high caliber blog engagement actions were missing. What [...]
Let’s not beat around the bush – as of today, I’m shutting down my blog. It’s been a long time coming, but I doubt anyone will be terribly surprised. I mean, look at you – you’re here, you’re reading… But you don’t pass it on. You don’t comment. You don’t say hi. You don’t engage. [...]
It’s easy to write one awesome post on your blog. It’s easy to spend five hours doing research, creating relevance where none existed before. It’s easy, relatively, getting an interview done with your hero. It’s easy to write ten awesome posts on your blog. What you can do once, you can do again, right? What’s [...]
