From the monthly archives:

June 2007

Edmonton to be blessed by his Toddness!

June 11, 2007

Heh, sorry, couldn’t res­ist. Todd Maffin is vis­it­ing my fair city and look­ing to hook up with some tech­ies for his live, weekly, on-line TV show:
My live weekly web-TV show, todbits.TV, is going on the road! This Fri­day, I’ll be broad­cast­ing live from down­town Edmon­ton at the Fair­mont Hotel Mac­Don­ald.
And I’m invit­ing any­one in the tech […]

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iPhone super-detailed details leak

June 11, 2007

The iPhone is due to launch on June 29th, and some folks are doing any­thing and everything to feed the hype. Looks like the Sales Train­ing Work­book has leaked.
Tech­nor­ati Tags: iPhone, Leak, Apple, News, Inform­a­tion, Manual

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Another free tool to make bloggers more productive

June 8, 2007

I’m test­ing out the new build of Win­dows Live Writer, and am actu­ally lik­ing the res­ults — so far. This is the first post I’ve cre­ated using the new build.
I had less suc­cess with the pre­vi­ous ver­sion, and dropped it like a hot potato: my post­ing tool of choice has been Per­form­an­cing Scri­be­Fire, but hey, […]

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Starting an online community? Here’s a great list of things to consider.

June 7, 2007

Over at Com­mon­Craft they’ve col­lec­ted an excel­lent list of con­sid­er­a­tions for start­ing an online com­munity. For example:

Have a strong under­stand­ing of the audi­ence
Define the user — where are they now? What do they need?
Make sure to have a host or “social dir­ector”
Cre­ate an out­reach strategy — how will your audi­ence know about the com­munity?
Ensure that the […]

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Nifty Hack: How to circumvent a firewall with Twitter, Jaiku, Twitku using Netvibes

June 6, 2007

Need to ‘fol­low’ your friends on Twit­ter or Jaiku, but are fire­walled? Then here’s a quick solu­tion that is work­ing for me:

Set up a NetVibes account.
Cre­ate a new page, setup as three column.
Add the Bitty Browser module.

Point that browser at the TwitKu mobile page ( http://twitku.com/m ).
Sign into your Twit­ter and JaiKu accounts through the TwitKu […]

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Corporate Blogging Policies List

June 5, 2007

I’ve just dis­covered this extens­ive list of cor­por­ate blog­ging policies — great fod­der for those of us who work in that space.
Tech­nor­ati Tags: blog, blog­ging, cor­por­ate blog­ging policy, policies, cor­por­a­tion, rules

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