14 Aug 2007
Listen to our Podcast: Show Notes: 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…
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14 Aug 2007
Listen to our Podcast: Show Notes: 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…
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13 Aug 2007
Listen to our Podcast: Show Notes: 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…
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12 Aug 2007
Listen to our Podcast: Show Notes: 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…
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