Takin’ MyBlogLog to School (in a good way)
Cord Silverstein has written an excellent primer on getting the most out of MyBlogLog, entitled MyBlogLog 101. As a marketing hipster, he knows how to cultivate an image to which people respond well SO LISTEN UP! In a nutshell, it's what we all know but never want to admit -- developing contacts is hard work. You can't just blast out noise and expect people to respond favorably, no matter how friendly you sound. Relationships are built on personal connection, on the fine-grained details, the shared experiences that unveil themselves over time. "Love your site, please check out mine" ain't going to cut it.
So check out Cord's post for a 10-point guide to winning friends and influencing people all MyBlogLog stylee. For extra credit, take the time to find one person who's blog sounds really interesting, read a dozen posts and *only then* email them what you think. Report back on Monday what you learned.
MyBlogLog 101 -- part one
MyBlogLog 101 -- part two (technically, isn't this MyBlogLog 102?)
Takin’ MyBlogLog to School (in a good way)
Cord Silverstein has written an excellent primer on getting the most out of MyBlogLog, entitled MyBlogLog 101. As a marketing hipster, he knows how to cultivate an image to which people respond well SO LISTEN UP! In a nutshell, it's what we all know but never want to admit -- developing contacts is hard work. You can't just blast out noise and expect people to respond favorably, no matter how friendly you sound. Relationships are built on personal connection, on the fine-grained details, the shared experiences that unveil themselves over time. "Love your site, please check out mine" ain't going to cut it.
So check out Cord's post for a 10-point guide to winning friends and influencing people all MyBlogLog stylee. For extra credit, take the time to find one person who's blog sounds really interesting, read a dozen posts and *only then* email them what you think. Report back on Monday what you learned.
MyBlogLog 101 -- part one
MyBlogLog 101 -- part two (technically, isn't this MyBlogLog 102?)
MyBlogLog Engineering Update
While very little has been visible to the outside world, the engineers on the MyBlogLog Team have been working tons of overtime (even for us) to bring a number of major performance enhancements online. Well, it looks like we are about ready to roll them out.
Over the next two weeks you may notice a few minor hiccups in the system as we roll everything out. The hiccups should be contained to a few of the dreaded “System is down for maintenance, please check back in a few minutes” messages or minor delays in data replication through the system. We will do our best to keep these to a minimum.
As always, if you see anything that looks out of whack, please let us know. I can assure you that these performance upgrades will be well worth the few system notices you may see.
Cheers,
Todd Sampson
CTO, MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog Engineering Update
While very little has been visible to the outside world, the engineers on the MyBlogLog Team have been working tons of overtime (even for us) to bring a number of major performance enhancements online. Well, it looks like we are about ready to roll them out.
Over the next two weeks you may notice a few minor hiccups in the system as we roll everything out. The hiccups should be contained to a few of the dreaded “System is down for maintenance, please check back in a few minutes” messages or minor delays in data replication through the system. We will do our best to keep these to a minimum.
As always, if you see anything that looks out of whack, please let us know. I can assure you that these performance upgrades will be well worth the few system notices you may see.
Cheers,
Todd Sampson
CTO, MyBlogLog
MyBlogLog welcomes our new presidential overlords
We're on our first Yahoo property! You can now see your bad selves on each of the presidential candidate pages on Yahoo! Elections. Get on over and join some candidate communities. Maybe you dig Giuliani's political stances. Maybe you'd like Hillary to be the first female President. Maybe you love Obama because his voice sounds exactly like The Rock
(seriously -- I'd pay money to hear him ask if we "can smell what
Barack is cooking"). It's not our place to judge. You have your own reasons for liking one or more of the candidates and it's your right as an American (or someone on the same planet as America) to join their communities.
And remember, you can always *leave* a community. Imagine Senator McCain waking up one day and seeing that half his community has defected. The political power you now wield is tremendous! So go use it!
Joe Biden
Sam Brownback
Hillary Clinton
Chris Dodd
John Edwards
Rudolph Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Duncan Hunter
Dennis Kucinich
John McCain
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson
Mitt Romney
Let’s Hook up at SXSW!
Heya. Scott and I are down at SXSW Interactive through Tuesday and we would love to say hello. If you're interested, text me at 413.687.8098 and we'll find a place to get together. See you there!
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