Monday, May 31, 2010
Just Added Tynt to the blog for a test....
Tynt automatically adds a link back to your original content with every paste. The attribution link ensures you get credit for your work, drives new visits back to your site and improves your SEO results. It is easy to set up, though it adds another link tracking tool to the internet... and another script running on a page to conflict with your browsers... another script that could be made nefarious... but it's worth testing, especially on large content sites. Link backs are a major impact on SEO..... 
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Thinking about Pecha Kucha
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeOK, I had heard of this before, but now it's gaining traction, and I understand the real attraction. Business really leans on PowerPoint to deliver and perform presentations. All departments now use PowerPoint to drive meetings and agendas... people think in slides and linear progressions. We brainstorm with slides to guide us. Staff follows along, reading ahead and reiterating conclusions.... we agree because we've been lead to the end, slide by slide. Not because we thought it through. And we get bored of the continual progression of standard presentations.Pecha Kucha brings back a bit of the life to the presentation... a bit of performance and excitement. It's more of a show, planned for impact... not data transference.
It's very different, even the preparation is different.... A presenter no longer focuses on getting all the data, making slides, being detailed and thorough... in PK the focus is on being succinct,creative, compelling and entertaining. A very different preparation
If you don't know about it, the idea of Pecha Kucha is very simple: present 20 slides for 20 seconds each on whatever topic you want. The goal is to be clear and to compete, like poetry slam....
The next show in NYC is at Element. (The events consistently attract an audience of over 500 people.)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Apophenicas and Digital Agnostics
Image via WikipediaIf you suffer from Apophenia, seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data, then you sense the print world moving towards a digital "event" horizon. But is that a problem? For content owners, we may be able to be agnostic in the future, if we store our materials in flexible ways... and triage the selection of content into meaningful collections.The world of XML and databases enables us to carefully select, by title type/category, which digital future content store we should invest in. Rather then a one format, one type fits all, digital content may have a more complex future, rather then a simple one.
Most of the twitter posts that I am collecting are websites leading towards different semantic futures... those futures are the core to preparing and storing content now. Not the devices and display formats available today.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Shrine
Image via WikipediaReading Jane Jacobs about self organizing communities and realizing how much that sounds like Social Networking.... more on that in a minute....
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