September 2009 - Blog Watch

Your ROI may be based on new member registrations, but you can’t forget about treating your existing members better.  They are going to be your strongest advocates.  Done poorly… Linkedin – Requires new page loads and extra clicks for existing Read More......( read more ) Read More...

By popular demand I am attempting to aggregate SoCal Developer events on a monthly basis.  For October 2009 as follows below. I’ll be happy to add any developer events I may have missed, just send me mail via my blog. Week 1 (Sept 27 – Oct 3) Mon, Sept 28 – GirlsInTech / Santa Monica / 7pm - ‘How much can you say without tarnishing your brand? (social media) – I am speaking Wed, Sept 30 – CloudCamp / LA / MS Office / 6pm – I am attending, maybe speaking Sat, Oct 3 – Silverlight Education Day...

This is common knowledge for most of you reading this, but I wanted a reference point for myself on the topic of shortened URLs and tweets. "Mentions" are a twitter feature where your twitter name (mine is @daveburkevt) is included in the tweet so that it comes to your attention. Unlike Direct Messages which can be sent only by people you follow, anyone can send you a Mention. Now onto shortened URLs.   Shortened URLs are web addresses manipulated in sure a way so they use less characters...

The technical depth of this post is about as lightweight as it can be, but the subject is interesting because it represents a new level of controlling page layout with JQuery.  The use of "CSS inadequacies" in the post subject is a little misleading, as I'm also considering the inadequacies of the developer's CSS chops.  That would be me. The situation was that I was placing a paging control at the right-side of a page. Everything was jake until the last page when the...

Augmented Reality App of the Week. A rash of augmented reality-type apps seem to be surfacing, mostly mobile-based with intelligent overlays of people, places and things. Here’s an interesting video where a presenter uploads additional topic and contact information that can be viewed during the course of his presentation. One Guy’s Guitar in a Social Media World. In an Albert Maruggi interview, “Social media is like the tectonic plates shifting to create mountains, valleys, earthquakes. It’s still...

I’ve wanted to play around with this feature (also called ‘BitLocker-To-Go’ ), but hadn’t had time until today.  I’ll recap what I’ve found.  First, and probably most important, is that BitLocker is only available as part of Windows 7 Ultimate (or Enterprise) editions.  That is, the ability to ENCRYPT is available only in these editions of Windows 7.  Of course, you can DECRYPT with any version of Windows 7.  For testing I used one laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate to encrypt...

If you are running a web site there's a good chance you want to include advertisements on that web site. Even if the ads are only for your own products or services you are probably using some sort of ad management software. Telligent Community does not manage your ad campaigns for you, but we've made it very simple to configure advertising either per page or per zone on your site. Check out this demonstration on using the ad region widget. (Please visit the site to view this media) For more...

Measuring and tracking Answer Rates is key to a successful online forums community. With Telligent Analytics, determining which forums have the best and worst answer rates has never been easier. Use this information to improve the customer experience and build a vibrant community ecosystem. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by Lois Kelly picks up where the Cluetrain Manifesto left off. Beyond Buzz provides clear guidance on how to transform conversational marketing into buzz in a way that is both interesting and thought provoking. 5-out-of-5 Nordic Track Stars. ________________ p.1 New marketing is about conversations. It’s about helping people get to know us in ways that build understanding, trust and feelings, that make them want to do business with our companies...

Within an internal employee community, it's often necessary to include links to external content to ensure employees are as productive as possible. Telligent Enterprise provides two ways to provide access to external websites - one via a linked tab and one via embeded content via an iFrame. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

I am working on setting up my first VPC in Windows 7 and I found a couple of things had changed from Vista and wanted to share here.  I realize that for application virtualization, ITPros would most often be using Windows 2008 Server, however, developers would more commonly use Windows 7.  That’s why I decided to blog that use case here. To use virtual hard disks as VPCs on machines with Windows 7 installed, you’ll first have to check /set the BIOS to make sure that virtualization is supported...

Identifying volatile topics is a convenient way to detect shifts in topics within your Telligent Enterprise or Telligent Community. Using Telligent Analytics 3.0, you can easily identifying topics that have either increased or decreased in the number of times they were mentioned vs a prior period. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...