August 2009 - Blog Watch

Changing Channels . The Irrelevance of Digital asks if we want to use the word ‘digital’ in our marketing efforts. There is something prophetic here. “People don't think in channels, they think in terms of getting what they want, when they want it. As content becomes unhinged from legacy devices, the separation between 'platforms' becomes less and less tangible. All this web stuff is going to look like a picnic compared to the horrors that will be dealt to the agency and media businesses...

Identify people in unique roles within your organization with role icons that display in a hover-over when you place your cursor on any user's avatar or display name. For Telligent Community ( read more about roles icons): (Please visit the site to view this media) For Telligent Enterprise ( read more about role icons): (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

A colorful banner that isn’t a banner. Roomy and clean content placement. Link to Showcase of Undergraduate Research 2008 | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

I like to see the application of high art to Bull Riding sites. Clever, crisp banner medallion, beautiful edging and font details. Nice. Link to Round-Up at the Fort | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

Untethered in Lion Country. I’m in Red Lion, Pennsylvania for the next few days with family. While I write an Everyman on vacation I consider this Jonathan Fields post titled Working Vacations Rule? “I’m not tethered to work…I’m blessed to work. It’s what I love to do. It’s my funtime. My downtime. My playtime. Whether other people deem it work or not doesn’t really matter. I do it because it makes me come alive, not because I’m on someone else’s leash. And, that’s a massive distinction.” RSS Rules...

This weekend is the Social Computing 2009 conference in Vancouver, B.C. It is a gathering of many people doing research on social media useage. Many papers are about tagging systems, blogs, wikis, message boards, and social networking services. Three papers Telligentcontributed to are in the conference: First Steps to Netviz Nirvana Bonsignore, E.M., Dunne, C., Rotman, D., Smith, M., Capone, T., Hansen, D.L. & Shneiderman, B. (2009), "First steps to NetViz Nirvana: evaluating social network...

Easily organizing and monitoring reports most important to you is key to managing your social analytics data. With Telligent Analytics, you can identify, organize and track reports that are most critical to your business using custom dashboards. For Telligent Analytics : (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

But do they do it right? If you've played scrabulous on Facebook then you've, no doubt, experienced the cramped feeling of your scrabble board surrounded by ads that are reaching out, tapping you on the head, and saying "look at me!" Read More......( read more ) Read More...

It's pretty cool to have someone as outspoken and transparent as Curt Schilling blogging about his baseball accomplishments. For me his blog has been inspirational and educational when it comes to my hobby of playing baseball. The post I'm linking Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Still funny. Penny Arcade! - Facebookery Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Dare has a great overview of the SimpleDB services. Although there are some downsides to the service it certainly was the next logical step for Amazon in this space. I can't help but wonder where MSFT is in this game. That and if Penton will have Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Establishing the appropriate roles and permissions within your community is essential to ensure that the right people have access to the right content and can perform the right tasks. As you recognize a need for a particular community member to be assigned a specific role, that assignment can be done quickly and easily in one of two ways. And viewing who is assigned to a particular role makes it easy to adjust those assignments. For Telligent Community ( read more about roles and permissions): (Please...

Is the Real Time Web killing Time Shifting? Man, I was just starting to enjoy time shifting with TiVo, watching a show with the family a day or two after it airs at a time convenient for us. But this Real Time Web thing is starting to bust up something great. I was looking forward to watching the finale of Top Chef Masters from last night, for instance, when today in my Twitter stream Chef Michael Chiarello congrats Rick Bayless on his win. It’s getting really hard to not accidently discover popular...