Sunday, October 3, 2010
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.” ~Confucius http://bit.ly/bi2Wx1
Friday, October 1, 2010
Running on Empty | in over your head
Running on Empty
When you are building up an asset, you’re either spending time or cash.
Renovating a house requires either your handiwork or someone else’s. Getting a charity off the ground requires legwork or funding. Often a combination of both is required. Sometimes you have more of one than the other, or you have no choice which to use.
But somewhere along the lines of industry, digital, and social, things broke down.
You can pay someone to tweet for you, but consistent participation is expensive and doesn’t work very well if it’s outsourced. Being clever is hard (impossible?) to pay for, but personality plays such an important role that often, it’s best just to do it yourself. You can’t pay to keep passion going, either; instead, it often gets snuffed out just as you’re trying to encourage it by paying for it.
Now, the web might be one of the only places where spending time trumps money. If you don’t care, you’ll drop out. If you get paid, you’ll phone it in. The only thing that will make the grade is to really care about it– only if it’s your ass on the line will you really be able to put in the time. It’s the only reason you’ll care enough to compete.
If it’s just a job, others will out-sweat you. And sweat is what built the web.
10 years ago, the web was expensive, or complex, to work on. Now, infrastructure is in place, so it’s easy. The only remaining factor, the one that can’t be bought or commoditized, is the human one.
Robots will get faster. Information will get faster. But human will stay human. That is why you must put your effort there.
I could be wrong, but don’t bet on it.
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New Feature: Amplify.com Integration with SocialOomph
SocialOomph News
You can now schedule and publish updates for your Amplify.com social account using SocialOomph.
This new feature is available to Professional users.
That means all the other Professional features, such as Blog (RSS) Feeds, bulk uploads, queue reservoirs, etc., can be applied to your Amplify.com account.
Amplify.com is a service like Twitter, but where you are not limited to 140 characters. Check them out at Amplify.com.
To access this new feature, login to your account and select "Social Accounts, Add New Account, Add Amplify.com" from the menu.
| New Feature: Amplify.com Integration |
You can now schedule and publish updates for your Amplify.com social account using SocialOomph.
This new feature is available to Professional users.
That means all the other Professional features, such as Blog (RSS) Feeds, bulk uploads, queue reservoirs, etc., can be applied to your Amplify.com account.
Amplify.com is a service like Twitter, but where you are not limited to 140 characters. Check them out at Amplify.com.
To access this new feature, login to your account and select "Social Accounts, Add New Account, Add Amplify.com" from the menu.
Thank You For Using SocialOomph
Best Regards,
Best Regards,
Dewald Pretorius
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose.” ~Lance Armstrong http://bit.ly/9eYu2N
“The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our opennessto let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.” ~Marilyn Ferguson Live http://bit.ly/bHwOTp
The Path to Your FOCUS is Through Your Stomach | Change your thoughts
Being able to focus at the precise time when you need to, is a priceless quality not just in business, but in any area of your life. There are countless ways of teaching people the physical act of getting focused. But very seldom does anyone actually talk about the connection between your nutrition and your ability to focus.
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10 things you should know about supporting mobile devices | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
The explosion of mobile device usage in business has led to some tricky and unexpected support challenges. Brien Posey lists some of the concerns IT pros should be aware of.
Mobile devices have been around in one form or another for many years, but only recently have they gained mainstream acceptance in enterprise environments. For IT pros, it’s important to understand the unique challenges associated with managing these devices. In this article, I will give you 10 things to think about.
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12 Hot New Tablets Hitting the Market | ITBusinessEdge.com
It's no surprise that the iPad is finding support in the enterprise. It’s Apple and it’s cool. At a higher level, though, it’s worth comparing the fast adoption of the new tablet with the slower and tentative acceptance of the iPhone when it was introduced three years ago. The difference says as much about the coalescing of consumer and business wireless as the quality of the devices themselves.
Clearly, however, the market is expanding at a brisk pace with many new competitive tablets being introduced to the public. This slideshow highlights 12 of the newest tablet devices, in no special order.
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12 Hot New Tablets Hitting the Market | ITBusinessEdge.com
It's no surprise that the iPad is finding support in the enterprise. It’s Apple and it’s cool. At a higher level, though, it’s worth comparing the fast adoption of the new tablet with the slower and tentative acceptance of the iPhone when it was introduced three years ago. The difference says as much about the coalescing of consumer and business wireless as the quality of the devices themselves.
Clearly, however, the market is expanding at a brisk pace with many new competitive tablets being introduced to the public. This slideshow highlights 12 of the newest tablet devices, in no special order.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/bvZ9CM
Top 10 Security Questions to Ask Before Outsourcing Any IT | ITBusinessEdge.com
With IT organizations looking everywhere to cut costs, one area that gets a lot of attention is outsourcing. But just as there are security concerns with internal IT, so too are there security issues with external IT service providers. Here are 10 tough questions that IT organizations should be asking about their IT service providers.
Reference: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/take-long-security-look-before-outsourcing-leap/?cs=43383
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The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour
For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction - that is, a reply or a retweet. According to Sysomos, just 6% of all tweets are retweeted and these retweets have a very short lifespan. Virtually all retweets happen within the first hour after the original tweet.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
“One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.” ~Margaret Chase Smith http://bit.ly/dDf2zm
“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” ~Sydney Harris http://bit.ly/8Z3qiK
“Those who create good fellowships among others will never be short of friends.” ~Napoleon Hill http://amplify.com/u/b8qf
The Privatization of Culture and the Illusion of Depth | in over your head
An MP3 used to be a concert. A Kindle used to be a bookstore.
Is this you? You listen to music personally on your MP3 player. You read books by yourself and watch your TV on your laptop or iPad. You eat alone at least 50% of the time, rarely go to concerts, and watch more movies at home than in theatres.
Do you recognize yourself in this profile? ;)
A side effect of the digitization and portability of cultural artifacts is that they have also been brought from the public to the private. A gramophone used to be expensive, and a community might have had only one, so they shared it. Now we all have iPods, so we have our own music collection. We can download our favourite songs privately, so we don’t have to talk to a record store clerk– or anyone, for that matter.
What was once necessarily public has become private. What used to belong to a community has become private property. This might be a normal process of commodification– food becomes affordable, so we have snack foods or protein shakes instead of feasts. Stuff get cheaper, more portable, and private.
Interestingly enough, this also leeches value out of the public domain and into the pockets of corporations. This may, or may not, be an accident. But that’s not the point. The privatization of culture is a fact, and we have to deal with it. Though it fuels a sense of personal power, if we’re not careful, it also feeds loneliness.
Collective activity is a pillar of connection inside a community, helping people laugh together and share good conversation. It fuels a sense of belonging and happiness. How much of it are you doing?
If this is a normal phase of cultural and technological evolution, then it might be unstoppable. But your personal choice will reflect your priorities and decide the kind of life you live. The more public, the better you are at conversation and the more you feel a sense of kinship with others. The more private, the less conformity, but at the expense of belonging. You are either a wolf or a sheep, but the choice often happens without your consent.
Creative Commons people and programmers tend to get this, and bloggers often do too– the more you give stuff away, the more you get back. But often we live this only in regards to the web, and miss out because of it. Dungeons and Dragons has become World of Warcraft– an impression of being public, but without the actual increase in satisfaction or happiness. It is a trompe-l’oeil that mimics depth.
My strategy to trade favourite books with people, to have weekly ‘dates,’ and to have people over for supper. These are not exciting things.
They are not about technology. They are about people.
But if you’re part of the social web, and all you get excited about is the New Twitter, you do not see the big picture, and you are mistaken about why it matters.
Take a step back and look again.
Is this you? You listen to music personally on your MP3 player. You read books by yourself and watch your TV on your laptop or iPad. You eat alone at least 50% of the time, rarely go to concerts, and watch more movies at home than in theatres.
Do you recognize yourself in this profile? ;)
A side effect of the digitization and portability of cultural artifacts is that they have also been brought from the public to the private. A gramophone used to be expensive, and a community might have had only one, so they shared it. Now we all have iPods, so we have our own music collection. We can download our favourite songs privately, so we don’t have to talk to a record store clerk– or anyone, for that matter.
What was once necessarily public has become private. What used to belong to a community has become private property. This might be a normal process of commodification– food becomes affordable, so we have snack foods or protein shakes instead of feasts. Stuff get cheaper, more portable, and private.
Interestingly enough, this also leeches value out of the public domain and into the pockets of corporations. This may, or may not, be an accident. But that’s not the point. The privatization of culture is a fact, and we have to deal with it. Though it fuels a sense of personal power, if we’re not careful, it also feeds loneliness.
Collective activity is a pillar of connection inside a community, helping people laugh together and share good conversation. It fuels a sense of belonging and happiness. How much of it are you doing?
If this is a normal phase of cultural and technological evolution, then it might be unstoppable. But your personal choice will reflect your priorities and decide the kind of life you live. The more public, the better you are at conversation and the more you feel a sense of kinship with others. The more private, the less conformity, but at the expense of belonging. You are either a wolf or a sheep, but the choice often happens without your consent.
Creative Commons people and programmers tend to get this, and bloggers often do too– the more you give stuff away, the more you get back. But often we live this only in regards to the web, and miss out because of it. Dungeons and Dragons has become World of Warcraft– an impression of being public, but without the actual increase in satisfaction or happiness. It is a trompe-l’oeil that mimics depth.
My strategy to trade favourite books with people, to have weekly ‘dates,’ and to have people over for supper. These are not exciting things.
They are not about technology. They are about people.
But if you’re part of the social web, and all you get excited about is the New Twitter, you do not see the big picture, and you are mistaken about why it matters.
Take a step back and look again.
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/b9P6iY
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