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A breakdown of video sites and their various technical restrictions and optimal upload specs. - mediaChick

"Remember The Milk Ubiquity" - mediaChick

Dawn Foster, Community Manager for Shizzow and proprietress of Fast Wonder Blog, has written a comprehensive and thoughtful post on using Twitter for good and not evil to promote your business. She provides a how-to on using Yahoo! Pipes to monitor your reputation, shares great links on best practices for using social media to get the word out about your brand, and lists things to avoid doing on Twitter so you don't alienate the very audience you're trying to attract. I've read a lot of posts on using Twitter in business, and this one is the best I've seen. - mediaChick

Dawn Foster, Community Manager for Shizzow and proprietress of Fast Wonder Blog, has written a comprehensive and thoughtful post on using Twitter for good and not evil to promote your business. She provides a how-to on using Yahoo! Pipes to monitor your reputation, shares great links on best practices for using social media to get the word out about your brand, and lists things to avoid doing on Twitter so you don't alienate the very audience you're trying to attract. I've read a lot of posts on using Twitter in business, and this one is the best I've seen. - mediaChick

I added myself to Twellow a couple of days ago. It looks like something that will be useful to letting people find me. My keywords are *kinda* right, but they don't quite capture the true "mediaChick brand". I'll have to rethink my copy on all my Internet profile so my keywords reflect who I am better. That being said, it's helped me already! - mediaChick via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace. You know why they're thriving (in some cases, despite themselves)? Because immortality is at the core of being human. Introvert, extrovert, leader, worker, it doesn't matter who you are or the role you play in life - people need to feel they matter, need to leave their mark on the world. We create blogs, muxtapes, how-to-guides, and upload videos of grandkids playing t-ball. We tell our stories to untold numbers of faceless people with the hope of helping others or releasing our demons. Social media makes it easier than ever to reach thousands with a simple 140 character tweet, when things are life or death or life AND death. Back Fence PDX is a startup that embraces the original social media - storytelling. This guest post, from authors Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters, encourages us to remember that generic, soul-less business plans are a thing of the past. There is no separation between social self and business self in our transparent world, and... - mediaChick

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace. You know why they're thriving (in some cases, despite themselves)? Because the desire for immortality is at the core of being human. Introvert, extrovert, leader, or worker, it doesn't matter who you are or the role you play in life - people need to feel they matter, need to leave their mark on the world. We create blogs, muxtapes, how-to-guides, and upload videos of grandkids playing t-ball. We tell our stories to untold numbers of faceless people with the hope of helping others or releasing our demons. Social media makes it easier than ever to reach thousands with a simple 140 character tweet, and ,when things are life or death or life AND death. Back Fence PDX is a startup that embraces the original social media - storytelling. This guest post, from authors Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters, encourages us to remember that generic, soul-less business plans are a thing of the past. In our transparent world there is no separation between social self... - mediaChick

"So is it a boy or a girl?" As the best brains in the tech industry take us from html markups to a semantic web, one woman is making the rounds to remind them that gender assumptions have no place in domain knowledge. Corinna Bath is an academic researcher from Austria who brings up some critical issues about out-dated relationship definitions that may inadvertently make their way into tagging modalities. This is a very interesting look into the future of the web 3.0 and the influence of the society that builds it. - mediaChick

"So is it a boy or a girl?" As the best brains in the tech industry take us from html markups to a semantic web, one woman is meeting these minds to remind them that gender assumptions have no place in domain knowledge. Corinna Bath is an academic researcher from Austria who brings up some critical issues about out-dated relationship definitions that may inadvertently make their way into tagging modalities. This article is a very interesting look into the future of the web 3.0 and the influence of the society that builds it. - mediaChick

From the home page ... The Association Social Media Wiki is a "comprehensive listing of associations using social media. Or at least it will be with your help. By creating this master list of associations that are using blogging, wikis, social networking sites, podcasting and other social media tools, we'll all learn from each other for the benefit of our organizations and our members." - mediaChick

From the home page ... The Association Social Media Wiki is a "comprehensive listing of associations using social media. Or at least it will be with your help. By creating this master list of associations that are using blogging, wikis, social networking sites, podcasting and other social media tools, we'll all learn from each other for the benefit of our organizations and our members." - mediaChick

Solid marketing data (omg I love charts!) that will help marketing-types in their quest to convince CEO-types that social media has ROI value. - mediaChick

Solid marketing data (omg I love charts!) that will help marketing-types in their quest to convince CEO-types that social media has ROI value. - mediaChick

You may already know about Amazon's Web Services, an online utility that provides ala cart network enhancement services (like database processing and storage)to business. But did you know it also has human outsourcing capacities? Mechanical Turk, Amazon's marketplace for connecting workers with work worldwide, has been around a while. Until recently, however, businesses who wanted to automate their contracted Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) needed programming talent to post work and track progress on projects. Now it's strictly web-based and super easy. I think I'll sign up! - mediaChick

You may already know about Amazon's Web Services, an online utility that provides ala cart network enhancement services to business (like database processing and storage). But did you know it also has human outsourcing capacities? Mechanical Turk, Amazon's marketplace for connecting workers with work worldwide, has been around a while. Until recently, businesses who wanted to automate their contracted Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) needed programming talent. Now it's strictly web-based and super easy. I think I'll sign up! - mediaChick

Is your art spacey? A satellite is being launched January 2009 by Tohoku University (Japan) to study lightening in the Earth's upper atmosphere and your artwork could be on it! What a great opportunity for all digital artists. Hurry, there's an August 10, 2008 deadline and there are detailed technical specifications. So get your space suit on and launch your project to the outer limits of fame! - mediaChick

Is your art spacey? A satellite is being launched January 2009 by Tohoku University (Japan) to study lightening in the Earth's upper atmosphere and your artwork could be on it! Hurry, there's an August 10, 2008 deadline and there are detailed technical specifications. What a great opportunity for all digital artists! - mediaChick

You've heard that wild and crazy idea. You know the one, that people should be able to log into any online application with a single identifying credential. It's a hot topic on the Internet and in my local tech community. Even those still not aboard the OpenID Express, because the OpenID identifier is a URL and not an email address, do see the benefit to universal identifier. Well, it now appears the argument is moot! Vidoop (from Portland, OR) has a crazy idea of their own, and they call it EAUT ("yute"). Vidoop's simple decentralized URL translation code can turn any email address into a qualified OpenID identifier, and to prove it they created emailtoid.net. A universal, singular identification method is this much closer! Hurray! - mediaChick

You've heard that wild and crazy idea, that people should be able to log into any online application with a single identifying credential. It's a hot topic on the Internet and in my local tech community. Even those still not aboard the OpenID Express, because the OpenID identifier is a URL and not an email address, do see the benefit to universal identifier. Well, it now appears the argument is moot! Vidoop (from Portland, OR) has a crazy idea of their own, and they call it EAUT ("yute"). Vidoop's simple decentralized URL translation code can turn any email address into a qualified OpenID identifier, and to prove it they created emailtoid.net. A universal, singular identification method is this much closer! Hurray! - mediaChick

Blogging is more than a decade old. It's a respected form of building relationships and sharing information. So why are there still people openly hostile about social media's worth? Justin Kirstner does a good job explaining why those who are still grumbling about SM are pushing themselves even further into obsolescence. - mediaChick

Blogging is more than a decade old. It's a respected form of building relationships and sharing information. So why are there still people openly hostile about social media's worth? Justin Kirstner does a good job explaining why those who are still grumbling about SM are pushing themselves even further into obsolescence. - mediaChick

A very handy tip for signing off your gmail remotely. You know, for when you realize after you get home you've left yourself signed in at your parents house, leaving your inbox of sexy emails for their perusing. - mediaChick

A very handy tip for signing off your gmail remotely. You know, for when you realize after you get home you've left yourself signed in at your parents house, leaving your inbox is full of sexy emails at their disposal. - mediaChick

Nice, thanks! - Gary Walter

From professional researcher Bram Pitoyo, this Mind Map explains how interested parties can check the pulse of their brand in the Twitter stream and see how it ranks compared to the competition. - mediaChick

This well-written post is a comprehensive review of what a Community Manager is, and why companies need one. Includes many relevant outside links to sources to help in identifying the right right Community Manager for the job. - mediaChick

The start of a really great collection of delicious recipes from Sarah Gilbert, proprietor of Cafe Mama. I just made the incredibly easy Anything Goes Oatmeal Bread with great success. Next up is the no-cook Peanut Butter Balls and (I don't need no stinkin') Hamburger "Helper". - mediaChick

Mike Berkley, CEO of Portland, OR based SplashCast Media, revisits his first night or raillery as a panelist at the 2008 Lessons in Social Advertising (LiSA) event. Standing firm on his company's definition of social advertising as "getting consumers to tell the brand story, on behalf of the brand", Berkley does a great job explaining what is social and what is anti-social media and why. - mediaChick