Join Us on a Party Bus from Portland to Ignite Corvallis on November 5

I have the honor of presenting the What is Ignite talk in my favorite Oregon city (outside of Portland, of course) at Ignite Corvallis 2 on this Thursday, November 5th. The have a great list of speakers, including a couple of other Portlanders, and they are making it very easy for all of us to attend by sponsoring a party bus for the trip!

What makes it a party bus? The free beer and wifi certainly qualify it as a party bus in my book, but we also have a bunch of fun people already scheduled for the trip! We still have room on the bus, and everyone on the bus gets a free ticket to Ignite Corvallis, which is currently sold out. You can register for the bus and get all of the details about pick up and drop off times, logistics, etc. on the bus page.

I hope to see you at Ignite Corvallis!

Blogging Elsewhere

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily*

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

  • GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily: I am a paid blogger for the GigaOM network.
  • Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement

Recent Links

Here are a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …

Community Platform & Service Provider Research

How to deal with bad apples in your online community

HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI

What Social Media Monitoring Won’t Get You

Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Your Company May Own Your Tweets, Pokes, and YouTube Videos

Ten steps for building an internal social media team

Feeling Lucky?

Quicktake: The Impacts Of Google’s Social Search

Americans Want Brands that Inform

Facebook Grabs Soc Net Share

Consumers Demand Brand Interaction

Going Social Anywhere and Everywhere

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Blogging Elsewhere

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

  • Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement.

Recent Links

Here are a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …

Why Brand Communities Don’t Exist

Defenders of Belief vs. Seekers of the Truth – A classification of communities based on members

Invigorate your online community by closing it down

How to Market an Offline Event Online

Consumer Social Media in Government: Resistance Is Futile

The Second Life of Second Life

Getting started 2: What do you want to achieve?

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Blogging Elsewhere

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform Blog*

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

  • Twiki: I provide consulting services to Twiki, and this blog post is part of my consulting engagement.
  • Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement.

Recent Links

Here are a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …

How to build and maintain trust in online communities

Online Community Welcome Pack

The Unspoken Role in Community Management

The Art of Aligning Social Media Strategy With Communications Strategy

Kellie Parker » Social Media “Experts” are Killing Us

You might be a community manager if…

Social Learning Isn’t Just for Kids: Learning in Public at Conferences and Workshops

7 Considerations for Tracking Social Media Success

Forrester: Coolhunting with Teen Social Networkers

What’s next for billionaire Twitter?

Low CPMs Stall Social Network Ad Spend

Survey Finds Small Business Adopting Social Media Rapidly

Gartner Says Enterprises Must Get Control of Their Avatars

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Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques

On Tuesday, I gave a presentation about Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques for the PDXTech4Good group organized as part of NTEN’s 501 Tech Club, so the presentation was targeted to nonprofit organizations. It was about a 30 to 40 minute presentation followed by 2 breakouts:

  • Learn more about the tools (Twitter, etc.) with Crystal Beasley
  • Monitoring social media sites with Dawn Foster

Here are the slides from the first part of the presentation, and you can download the full size version from SlideShare if you want a better copy than the version embedded below.

View more documents from Dawn Foster.

Monitoring Breakout Section

In the monitoring section, I shared some of my favorite tools.

Keeping up with industry news:

  • Find any good RSS reader and populate it with the top blogs from your industry. Netvibes and Google Reader are good choices.

Real time Twitter monitoring:

Find shortened links to your websites when posted on Twitter:

Advanced monitoring on the cheap:

  • Yahoo Pipes: More involved tool, but you can do some very advanced monitoring. I have a bunch of video and written tutorials for getting started with Yahoo Pipes.

Blogging Elsewhere

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily*

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

  • GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily: I am a paid blogger for the GigaOM network.
  • Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement

Recent Links

Here are a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …

Social Network Statistics

2009 Tribalization of Business Study

Thoughts on the Emerging Discipline of Community Management

Will Work for Whuffie?

Breathe new life into old features

How to Blog Almost Every Day

7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

5 Ways Clarity Can Replace Control

How Speakers Should Integrate Social Into Their Presentation

You can find all of my links on Delicious.

Open source, research, and other stuff I'm interested in posting.