14 Aug 2007
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Podcast number 12 from Gnomedex 2007. This show is with Josh Hallett of hyku.com
We talk about:
Watching Josh at conference
Using his camera to photo blog events
Josh uses a Nikon D80
The importance of following your passion
He's taken hundreds of photos at Gnomedex 2007 Joking about how many times have you heard "Pownce" at Gnomedex
None all Twitter
Easy way to put names with faces and great way to begin conversations
Was this a way to improve your photography?
Max editing is cropping of photos
Using Creative Commons licenses for his photos
Capturing the emotion of a BlogHer attendee conversation with Elizabeth Edwards
Are you making money from this?
Working had to make money indirectly
So what is it that you do?
Social media consulting with traditional newspapers and pr firms
It is partially technical and partially cerebral
In this space our services and production are what the client needs
Things change on the enterprise level when you bring IT into the mix
How do you interact…
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14 Aug 2007
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Podcast number 13 from Gnomedex 2007. This show is with Chris Heuer of socialmediaclub.com and chrisheuer.com
We talk about:
Tons of new conversations around open source right now
Second anniversary of Bar Camp is soon
Chris attended a facilitation training
Which is what put him on to BrainJams The best thing that you do to learn is to read a magazine outside your industry
BrainJams was a study in interdisciplinary
Social Media Club was derived from that earlier work
It stemmed from a need for event context
To make a nerd correlation it is sort of like a relational database – context with key
What you've done is created a social platform
Seeing the value in temporary communities
Sure, just like Gnomedex
Making sure that there is value in presentations
Setting up the learning environment
Walking out on sessions at a conference in favor of the hallway conversation
Taking time to make connections that you can't make in a session
Conversational Marketing, but it worries me
The wrong…
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13 Aug 2007
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Podcast number 11 from Gnomedex 2007. This show is with Stan James of Lijit.com and wanderingstan.com.
We talk about:
Welcoming Stan without asking him what it is that he does
Taking our small project and growing it
Lijit is based on a study of the abstract concept of trust
It's about how we handle trust online
How people move from a face to face environment
What applications get used for building trust
Digg is an aspect of that
The actual genesis of Lijit was from performing tech support for my mother
Moving through the longtail of trust
What is the plan of Lijit?
Bringing the offline online
The goal is to build a create a hub
Building a better spider to follow a new
Lijit grew from an organic experience
Where are the opportunities for search to go?
Not beig the go to place but the place to find trusted sources
The power of social networks applied to search
Page rank was based on the information in the…
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12 Aug 2007
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People have viewed b5 as a second tier blog network
We're showing how we are unique
At Gnomedex we are sharing two secret projects
Project 1 – Licensing their platform
Project 2 – Ad deals
Flagship blogs programs
Access to the entire platform
They key is ad sales and analysis
Industry perspectiveBlogging cycles
This conversation has already happened, thanks for the rehash
We've all done some stupid shit
Did you build b5 with scaling in mind?
Choosing a platform
30 million to 75 million views a month on their network
Shooting for the stars with low numbers
Doing all the work in a LAMP environment
The goal was to launch with 5 blogs with 5000 page views
Then to have 25 blogs with 100,000 page views
Launched with 13 blogs and had 100,000
b5 media was never meant to be a company
Now here we are
WordPress is what we know and we were running it
The new concerns of scalability
How do I keep this running?
Kris makes up…
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