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This is turning into video learning week here on Joesgonesocial, and today’s feature is a video that demonstrates how to send yourself messages in the future using three different tools:
All three solutions are simple and effective and each has distinct advantages. Check out the short video:
Is working for yourself the equivalent of not having a day job?
Unfortunately this application is no longer available on Facebook. Feel free to check out other Facebook related posts on my blog.
This is a instructional video to show you how to use the Facebook App Profile Maker to dress up your Facebook profile. Profile Maker is a nice conversation starter and a fun app to play with. There are some general suggestions about how to edit the image in advance to get the most benefit as well as a walk through of the process included in this short video.
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 can you expect by listening to this podcast?:
“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?
Last 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.
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.”
You may have recently heard how Twitter, Facebook and Buzz factor into Bing and Google search results. I was somewhat concerned when I read that article. I was concerned because I think it will encourage spammers and SEO games with twitter and further clog up an already difficult to manage stream of information. I wrote about your sources being much more important than your followers earlier this year but it is becoming even more critical today and that is why I am revisiting this issue. Here are some key points to consider:
Remember the Honda motorcycle jingle (maybe you don’t but that’s alright, you didn’t grow up with that 2 wheel culture?):
Follow the leader, he’s on a Honda.
Your vote of confidence and good name could really make the difference between someone that respects you following or not following an unscrupulous user. In fact it is one of the things I’ve weighed in my decisions on whether or not to follow someone. Take this example, I clicked to find a random Twitter user, for this example let’s pretend that @katyzack just followed me:
As you can see in this initial view of Katy’s profile I note that several trusted sources of mine are already following her. This scores some kudo/follow back points, but note when I click through to see who the 10+ others were I saw this trio in the list:
This is indeed good news for Katy, a couple of my #infosec sources follow her and my pal Gini Dietrich as well. I wouldn’t even think twice about following Katy now. This is an example of an obvious credible user but imagine if one of these folks that I respect followed another user with shall we say less than admirable selfish intentions? This is in fact the point I am trying to make:
Your good name could encourage me to follow someone I probably shouldn’t
According to the article I cited earlier the authority of a user is impacted by the number of followers they have (Bing) and both Bing and Google calculate the authority of all Twitter users. My argument here is simpler:
Follow a Spammer and you are improving their SEO
Sources are becoming more and more crucial, you want to pass along democratic SEO happiness to quality folks but certainly don’t want to help saturate the Twitter Firehouse. With benefit of this information are you going to reconsider your Twitter policy? There is one heck of a post and comment thread about Twitter policies on Spinsucks. I’d imagine these recent developments could re-start that debate? What do you think?