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Managing Online Communities: A mindmap of #BTVSMB presentations by Sara Steele-Rogers and Anthony Quintano

Another month, another #BTVSMB. This month’s topic was managing online communities.

If you want to know more about social media breakfasts, look at my past post. It briefly explains what they are.

Two community mangers presented their thoughts and strategies on how they manage the communities built around the businesses that employ them. Sara Steele-Rogers, from Boloco, and Anthony Quintano, from NBC News, presented about what lead them to their current positions, but also how they have defined their positions as community managers. Continue reading “Managing Online Communities: A mindmap of #BTVSMB presentations by Sara Steele-Rogers and Anthony Quintano”

Data + app design and making mobile stuff: a conversation

I had the opportunity to take a phone call with Errol Samuelson, president of Realtor.com and talk about their new iPad app. We covered some of my favorite topics: impact of data on design decisions, how people use mobile stuff and so on.

Even if you aren’t part of my real estate audience I think you’ll find some useful tidbits in here on how an organization develops and iterates using data and design processes.

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The audio is about 25 minutes long and the image doesn’t change. So you can let it run in the background or read the transcript below. Continue reading “Data + app design and making mobile stuff: a conversation”

Facebook for business highlights what’s wrong with web design and development.

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I’ve had a several conversations about marketing on Facebook lately. They usually go something like this.

Business owner: Can I just use Facebook instead of a website?

Me: Sure, you could scrap your business website (or for new entrepreneurs not get one in the first place) and just use Facebook. I wouldn’t recommend it though.

Business owner: Why not?

From there our discussion veers into issues of search, findability, meeting new people online, control of your destiny and so on. But I’ve begun to wonder really, why not? Continue reading “Facebook for business highlights what’s wrong with web design and development.”

Thoughtfaucet’s LinkedIn profile training video and transcript

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I’ve finally edited and transcribed the webinar we did a couple months back about how to make your LinkedIn profile awesomer.

It’s an hour long so you might want to just let it run in the background or read the transcript if you prefer. Enjoy!

Continue reading “Thoughtfaucet’s LinkedIn profile training video and transcript”

WordPress Webinar on Monday April 18 5:30pm

Following on our previous Thoughtfaucet Apprentice Lab forays into LinkedIn and Gist, we’re ready to do some training on everybody’s favorite content management system: WordPress.

This is a free webinar. I was going to train the apprenti either way and it’s no skin off my back to just turn on GoToWebinar.

Monday April 18
5:30pm Eastern Time (don’t get the time wrong Hector!)
Register online–there are a limited number of seats and this is going to be popular.

If you’re in Burlington, VT and want to attend this live at Thoughtfaucet HQ drop me an email. I’d like to leave as many slots open on the webinar for others as possible.

Topics for Thoughtfaucet Apprentice Lab Free WordPress Webinar

We’ll be starting from a completely blank website URL with nothing on it and one hour later we’ll have Continue reading “WordPress Webinar on Monday April 18 5:30pm”

The opportunity in Foursquare

I’ve written about the locative media service called Foursquare and used it for awhile. Today Jeff Turner, a renowned non-Foursquarer ignited a fascinating discussion by people way smarter than me about how Foursquare is or is not useful. Here are my current thoughts on the topic. Continue reading “The opportunity in Foursquare”

An interview about Bahrain and Burlington

In the continuing adventures of the #BTV Twitter hashtag I was interviewed recently by Matt Austin of Fox 44 News here in Vermont. I pretty surprised by the difference between the conversation he and I had at Thoughtfaucet HQ and the story he ran that evening on the news.

I was going to let it go, figuring “Hey it’s TV, they need to sensationalize stuff to get ratings and pay their mortgages and stuff.”

But then I got an email from a young man asking me about the “cyber war that’s going on” and figured it would be a disservice not to let others know what my conversation with Matt Austin was actually about.

Here’s some audio from our actual conversation, followed by the transcript and then the story as it ran on Fox 44.

Continue reading “An interview about Bahrain and Burlington”

Ten Minute Market: Thoughtfaucet participates in Vermont Travel Industry Conference mixer

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Markets are conversations. Some conversations are quick.

Like the Vermont Travel Industry Conference‘s pre-conference networking event which puts VT travel industry businesses in one-to-one contact with marketing experts for ten minutes at a time.

Thoughtfaucet‘s Gahlord Dewald will be among the marketing experts available April 11th event at Burlington’s Hilton Hotel from 5pm to 7pm.

Gahlord will be preparing something useful as part of his ten minute web strategy sessions. To make this something even more useful, if you are in the Vermont travel industry, please fill out the following form:

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The event is strict RSVP–you need to call the conference organizers at 802-865-5202 in order to register. Cost is $25 for people not registered for the full conference and free for those who are (but even those people need to call to register). Continue reading “Ten Minute Market: Thoughtfaucet participates in Vermont Travel Industry Conference mixer”

A template for building community on Twitter

Skiing 10 Minutes from Downtown Burlington — Image by gahlord via Flickr

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the question “Where do you listen to?” That isn’t a typo. The place you listen to informs the questions you hear.

I think the questions I hear make a big difference in what I think about and the problems I learn to solve.

The Twitter hashtag for the town I live in has presented a number of problems that have caused me to learn new things.

This is a post about where I listen to. Continue reading “A template for building community on Twitter”

Web Analytics Wednesday: Burlington Vermont April 13th 2011

Thoughtfaucet is excited to announce the return of Web Analytics Wednesday to Burlington Vermont on April 13th 2011 6pm-8pm at 156 Bistro.

Basic schedule of the evening is like so:

6:00 pm: Hang out, check in, network
6:30 pm: Brief presentation: “Measuring the success of a Webinar” by Gahlord, Liz and Brett of Thoughtfaucet
7:00 pm: Back to hanging out and catching up

Web Analytics Wednesday is one of the great Burlington events that gets all of us from the digital realm into the real world to talk about the web in terms that are measurable, actionable and surprisingly understandable. WAW is perfect for:

Professional web analytics practitioners
Business owners hoping to learn more about web analytics
Students and professionals looking to add skills

The BTV WAW scene has traditionally been exceptionally friendly and helpful. Attendance has always included a mix of agency, in-house, small business and education people. In short, if you are at all wondering if you can hang with these geeks the answer is: yes, you can.

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