posted by DL Byron on May 13, 2008
We’re at Webvisions next week, presenting on Social Media and participating on a panel. Note that we created the media for the preso with Social Media, using photos and imagery from Flickr (slideshow version).
We’ve also got another Mobile Social going on with an urban ride and reception at Lucky Lab. If you’re in town, and attending, please come on by for the drinks, food, schwag, and good times.
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posted by DL Byron on May 11, 2008
When I was in University as the Internets came online, a professor told me that the Victorians were equally impressed with themselves over mail. They wrote “missives” daily, sometimes five times a day … the post office would come as many times as you needed and there was a whole network of mail. And they all wrote about how marvelous it was.
Same thing, different day with blogging, social media, and Twitter … we’re always amazed by ourselves and the novel ways we develop to communicate, when really only the methods change.
In the rush to new platforms, to figuring it out, to making money at it, the secret to social media is: do epic shit.
As blogger Brendon Connelly said, “yeah, you gotta pursue your vision—stuff you love, and rock it hard.”
Photo uploaded by shaderlab
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posted by DL Byron on May 10, 2008
More from the dreeping set on Flickr.
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posted by DL Byron on May 08, 2008
I commandeered the Raygun bag from the latest batch of schwag Crumpler sent us for the Mobile Social in Portland, traveled with it to a conference and noticed, TDI’s palette is nearly identical to the colors in this bag! Double-checked and it is!
Are the shared palettes a design coincidence or just designers that think alike?
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posted by DL Byron on May 05, 2008
Movie and slides from my Talk Amongst Yourselves presentation at Web Design World Chicago.
Also available on Flickr as a slideshow.
Talk Amongst Yourselves by Textura Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at Textura Design.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at Contact.
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posted by DL Byron on May 05, 2008
Movie and slides from my Mashing up the Enterprise presentation at Web Design World Chicago.
Also available on Flickr as a slideshow.
Mashing up the enterprise by Textura Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at Textura Design.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at Contact.
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posted by DL Byron on May 03, 2008
I’d read about the gangland violence in Chicago, and I’m just saying just cause we ride bikes, don’t mean we’re wusses …when I’m out on the folding bike, I’ve got my pump with me too.
Uploaded by elmada | more from the dreeping set on Flickr.
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posted by DL Byron on May 03, 2008
From those little badges of courage bloggers put on their blogs (icons for delicious, facebook, mybloglog, digg, furl, larry, moe, and curly) to various widgets, and now Question Mark Heads, there’s a tendency to group think in social media. Has anyone ever actually measured if those social bookmarking icons are ever clicked, like ever? Why would you a user do that? They can just bookmarklet them from a browser or just go to their account and post there.
Point is that an avatar feature was added to a blog engine and most commenters choose to not pick an avatar or couldn’t figure it out. So there’s a good blog post cluttered with hundreds of distracting Question Mark Heads (note that they’re male heads v. unisex heads). An if/when statement, I guess could publish an avatar if there was one …? Or just not have any avatars at all.
Back when we wrote Publish and Propser, the theme was “Practical Business Blogging” and the message was,”blog you’re own way.” Do what’s right for your business, use the technology, and focus on what works v. something that someone else is doing just because. 2 years on and it’s time for Practical Social Media and I’ll talk about that at
and more events to come.
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