Monthly Archives: October 2007

Live from Barcamp Atlanta pt.2 – Better product blogging

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 13, 2007
Having wireless troubles in the second session I am attending. Talk will be focused on tips and techniques to improve product blogs. Presenter is Dave Coustan – http://blog.extraface.com This talk is about product as in product development not retailing per se. Here’s my paraphrase of Dave Coustan’s talk: Tip 1. Think of your product as […]
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Getting started at Barcamp – OpenID

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 13, 2007
[Live blogging from Atlanta Barcamp] Okay, arrived late at Barcamp. Loitered about the name tag station fo a while chatting with a guy named Viktor, a front-end web developer. Amber and Rusty turned up and told us the food was on the parking deck roof. Viktor and I swam upstream against the non-tardy Barcampers in […]
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Nine square inches

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 11, 2007
Today I have an exercise for you.  You will need the following items: 2 sheets of paper 1 ruler 1 pencil 1 mirror Take the first sheet of paper and use the ruler and pencil to draw a 3 inch by 3 inch square.  Now, withing that square box I want you to draw a […]
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Adjacencies

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 10, 2007
A random analogy for the serial networker:  are you considering your adjacencies?  When you go to a networking event, you dress up, you make sure you have your cards in your pocket, you practice that stadium pitch, but have you put any thought into merchandising yourself in the room?   Retailers put a tremendous amount of […]
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You are the ambassador of your brand.

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 8, 2007
This one goes out to all the good folks who are up early in the morning, going to their local chamber of commerce, hitting that networking breakfast, and doing their part to keep the economy going through good old fashioned hustle.  You are the ambassador of your brand.  When you swap cards at the chamber you […]
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mmmm Melty

By DavidSCohen | Published: October 1, 2007
Anyone who uses a grilled cheese sandwich as a metaphor is OK in my book.  Ed Van Herik does just that in his recent post entitled “Who Melted my Cheese?”  Ed gives us a nice reminder that social media web 2.0 is not really , about predictable algorithms, but about reinserting the the mutable (and […]
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