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Episode summary Blogger Ethics with Guest Danny Brown (Podcast)

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Danny BrownRecently Danny Brown to joined me for a discussion about blogging ethics and transparency. Danny Brown is co-founder and partner at Bonsai Interactive Marketing, offering integrated marketing, social media, digital and mobile marketing solutions and applications. His blog is featured in the AdAge Power 150 list as well as Canada’s Top 50 Marketing Blogs, and won the Hive Award for Best Social Media Blog at the 2010 South by South West festival. After reading Danny’s blog for a while I learned two things that compelled me to invite him to join me for this episode:

  1. That he calls things the way he sees them
  2. That he is passionate about blogger ethics

Who better to dive into a topic that some might view as controversial? I knew that Danny would give me his honest answers and would not pull any punches. I really looked forward to chatting with him again, Danny was a part of the PRapalooza panel in early November 2010. Danny definitely lived up to my expectations and if you’re interested in learning more about transparency and ethics in the blogosphere have a listen:

Listen to Blogger Ethics and Transparency with Danny Brown:

[audio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joehackman/2011/01/13/blogger-ethics-and-transparency-with-danny-brown.mp3?localembed=download]

Find Danny Brown online:

On Twitter @dannybrown
Also might want to read his recent post about Blog Disclaimers at Dannybrown.me.

Know someone or a group of people that might be interesting to interview? Contact me or @hackmanj.

Episode summary Interview the Interviewer Episode 1 – Adriel Hampton (Podcast)

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Adriel Hampton, Gov 2.0 Radio HostThis is a new monthly feature on my podcast where I will be interviewing “interviewers” in this case Gov2.0 Podcast host Adriel Hampton. Adriel is a passionate advocate for harnessing emerging technologies to make government more effective, collaborative and transparent. He is an early Gov 2.0 adopter and co-founded the popular public interest podcast Gov 2.0 Radio. In addition to producing the weekly show, Adriel is a community leader at GovLoop.com, the social network for government, and group manager for the LinkedIn Gov 2.0 group and its more than 4,500 members. Since 2005, Adriel has worked as an investigator for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, and he began his career as an editor, designer and writer for several San Francisco Bay Area daily newspapers. In 2009, he ran a grassroots campaign for U.S. Congress.

Highlights

What can you expect by listening to this podcast?:

  • Insights from one of the top people in the Gov 2.0 Space
  • Twitter and Social media tips
  • Where Adriel finds time to Tweet (hint – he commutes on public transit)
  • Some social media book opinions
  • Social media in relation to political campaigns (Adriel ran for Congress in 2009)

Listen to Interview the Interviewer Episode #1:

[audio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joehackman/2010/12/30/interview-the-interviewer-episode-1–adriel-hampto.mp3?localembed=download]

Adriel Quotables:

Regarding his 2009 campaign for Congress

“I got more Twitter followers than I got votes.“

Defining Gov 2.0

“Basically Gov 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 tools and principles in government.“

On the disconnect between government and citizens

“We are the government, it doesn’t matter if you work for government or are a tax payer, or an immigrant to the country. Everybody makes up a democratic governance structure.“

Find Adriel Hampton online

On Twitter @adrielhampton
His blog adrielhampton.com

Listeners, who should I interview next?

Episode summary of the first Ampalooza (Podcast)

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This week I had the opportunity to chat with some very cool people about my favorite social networking site Amplify.com. I have done several podcasts and lots of posts about Amplify, but after kicking the idea around with my friend Shonali Burke,  the panel began to take shape. The panelists were:

Shonali Burke – my main co-conspirator in this effort, past podcast guest and all around awesome Marketing and PR genius. Also blogging at Waxingunlyrical.com and shonali.amplify.com or @shonali.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul – a new media veteran regularly sharing her traffic tips at freetraffictip.com and asktinu.amplify.com or @tinu.

Alex Schleber – my biggest influencer of #curation efforts, also savvy and prolific. Definite power user of #amplify. Also find him at businessmindhacks.com or Curation FTW his amplog or @alexschleber.

Eric Goldstein – the discussion would not be complete without the CEO of Amplify. Eric joined us for the last 20 minutes or so answering questions and sharing his insights. He’s participated in several interviews. You can find Eric on egoldstein.amplify.com or @egoldstein.

The community at large – there were tons of great Amplify users present in the chat, many of them are listed here. I regret that I could not have managed more people on the panel. This could have been a panel of 30-40 people that are great trusted sources on Amplify. Many (but not nearly all of them) are listed at “Why sources are more valuable than followers“.

What's on your Mind? An Amapalooza!

Highlights

What can you expect by listening to this podcast?:

  • Insights from several different users with unique approaches
  • That Shonali has a wonderful speaking voice and accent (Thanks @zn_moment and @flapic)
  • How discussion and meeting people creates a lot of value for the site users
  • Ideas about how Amplify could scale and remain “intimate”
  • The power of the @mentions on Amplify (Originally suggested to Eric by Shonali)
  • Lots of great suggestions for new features
  • A conversation between the panel and Eric

Listen to the Ampalooza:

[audio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joehackman/2010/12/22/ampalooza–a-panel-discussion-about-amplify.mp3?localembed=download]

Quotables:

“Amplify is what Google Buzz should have been.” – Tinu Abayomi-Paul

“The structure of Amplify does create some of that intimacy, it’s not just happenstance and it’s not just that the community is still relatively small.” – Alex Schleber

“(On Amplify being a great time saver) – The clipping function which is to me is the core of it and is so beautiful about it and the way that it clips and presents the posts particularly when you post them to Facebook is remarkable.” – Shonali Burke

“(On being willing to change priorities) – The internet is incredibly fluid and one thing we try to do as a company is try to remain as fluid as possible.” – Eric Goldstein

Self quote (I know, strange quoting myself):

“(On the Amplify team) – When you deal with people that treat you right and give a crap, it makes it really easy to be an advocate.” – Joe Hackman

Listeners, how would you have responded to the questions? Are there any features that you would have suggested to the Amplify team?

Episode Summary Yau-Man Chan Interview on Blogtalkradio (Podcast)

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Yau-ManLast Wednesday I had a nice conversation with Yau-Man about some of his passions – science, community and Survivor. This was a treat for me as a podcast host because they are interests that I share with him. I met Yau-Man at a Rotary club meeting where he was a guest. During that meeting Yau-Man gave a presentation about his experience on Survivor. It was very fascinating to get his insights about the show. In this podcast we cover a lot of ground, Yau-Man has very unique perspective and his passion for science is contagious. If you are a fan of Survivor, a skeptic or just interested in hearing some different perspective listen in and let me know what you think.

Some things you will learn listening to this podcast:

  • How passionate Yau-Man is about science.
  • Why he moved to the United States from Borneo.
  • How the use of placebo varies greatly depending on the society.
  • Some little known insights about the Survivor TV show.
  • That Yau-Man is active in community service including SOAR.
  • Who Richard Saunders is.
  • Blowing things up is a good way to keep people interested in science.

Listen to the episode:

[audio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joehackman/2010/12/16/yau-man-chan-two-time-survivor-and-fellow-skeptic.mp3?localembed=download]

Yau-Man Chan Quotes

On his decision to come to America:

“Where do you go to study science? When somebody just landed on the moon you go to America.”

On Holistic/Chinese Medicine:

“Having grown up in a Chinese Society, I understand Chinese Medicine. I’ve used it and we know as soon as the Chinese got a hold of western medicine they used it. Why are we going backwards?”

On Power Balance:

“It’s parlor tricks.”

On Jeff Probst:

“He is the other player.”

Where to find Yau-Man:

His Blog at Skeptic Blog

Are you one of us (skeptics) or are we too critical?

Episode Summary Charlie McHenry of Trilobyte Games Interview on Blogtalkradio (Podcast)

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7th Guest and 11th Hour on iPadLast week I had not scheduled a guest for Wednesday’s Podcast. I have been making an effort to be more consistent in both blogging and my podcast in particular recently. I decided to post on Twitter, Facebook and Amplify looking for impromptu guests. In the past I was able to rally some previous hosts and friends to join me for last minute episodes like this. Fortunately a very interesting guest emerged Charlie McHenry. Charlie is the Chief Operating Officer and Marketing guy for Trilobyte Games. They are currently working on porting 7th Guest to the iPhone platform. That name may sound familar to you but the cover art in the image to the above right will perhaps be even more so.

Some things you will learn listening to this podcast:

  • An excellent walk through technology and gaming history.
  • Some interesting information about porting old games to the iPhone.
  • How an “old guy in a suit” evolves their marketing approach over three decades.
  • How many small tools from years ago ultimately became integrated into operating systems.
  • How software that is late can kill a company.
  • Exclusive – a prequel for 7th Guest may also be in the works.

Listen to the episode:

[audio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joehackman/2010/11/18/completely-impromptu-episode-serendipity-here-we-come.mp3?localembed=download]

Charlie McHenry Quotes:

On the future of the gaming model:

“We’re fascinated with things like Geo-location and the possibilities that that brings to say the puzzle space in the gaming world.”

On marketing in a technology:

“We launched our reorganized business and made the announcement of our return on the social networks.”

On the impact of gaming on technology:

“History is going to record that gaming and gamers had a huge impact on the marketplace in several different ways on a bunch of different levels.”

Where to find Charlie:

On Twitter: @DonCarlitos or http://www.trilobytegames.com

Did this bring you back to the early days of gaming and tech?