Archive for the 'Blogsite' Category

McMaster Congress: Enterprise 2.0 “ID-ah!” at Bell Systems and Technology

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

40,000 Minds are better than 1: A case analysis of idea management at Bell Canada (Weds 24 Jan, 11:30am-12)
Meaghan McKnight and Rex Lee - BELL SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Rex and Meaghan from Bell Canada talked through some pretty exciting Enterprise 2.0 internal projects at Bell Canada. The one that got my attention the most was ID-ah!, […]

My RSS now coming via Feedburner

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Thanks to Mark Kuznicki and Rob Schaumer who both pointed out my feed was down. As my RSS reader (GreatNews) was failing I got behind in my reading, to the point that I had no way to be alerted that my own feed was down. RSS really does recenter a person’s web usage patterns!
I’ve finally […]

Zoundry causing display errors in my blog. (Resolved)

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

You may have noticed yesterday this site’s not displaying the background. This post is in two halves: 1) implications for typical users of Zoundry and Wordpress, and after the (more…) 2) My notes to investigate why this happened. The latter half of this post is more technical.
Symptoms: a) the site’s background chocolate wrapper image appeared […]

Zoundry: multiple trackbacks are maybe possible, but the UI is incomplete

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Zoundry: submitting multiple trackback addresses with a single post.
I’m using v1.0.36. http://forums.zoundry.com/viewtopic.php?p=1196#1196 says:
Developer Release Version 1.0.29 (June 29, 2006) says:

8. Multiple trackback support - Episode I:You can now enter a comma separated value (CSV) list of trackback urls. The only problem is theUI for this has not changed i.e. you really cannot see much once […]

All about RSS - from Fagan Finder

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Techies that need to background information for RSS for newbies won’t go too far wrong with Fagan Finder’s All About RSS guide.
Galan Bridgeman’s article at Microsoft.com explains some good software options at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/expert/bridgman_05november21.mspx

Kami Huyse on Effective Blogging

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Kami Huyse gives an overview of her most popular articles about blogging in dialing_8_kami; I particularly liked 7-habits-of-highly-effective-blogs
Thanks Kami.

GreatNews and Zoundry, integration details

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Following % breakdown of RSS Reader by use. Zoundry to post I learnt that GreatNews and Zoundry can be configured to work together. Finally I found Lee Hopkin’s advice on using-greatnews-and-zoundry-together which slows you down to actually read the Options | Configure Blog Tool | Tool Details, selecting “Generic External Blog Tool” instead of “Generic” […]

% breakdown of RSS Reader by use. Zoundry to post

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Stuart Brown runs through in whos-using-what-for-rss the following chart outlining how people are reading their RSS newsfeed:
Personally I use a combination of Bloglines and GreatNews for reading, plus Zoundry for writing.
Will Humes provides another comprehensive review and says:
GreatNews is a very fast reader. You can scan thru articles quickly, and you have a choice […]

Blogging as Presencing instead of Marketing

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Blogging is a high touch, low cost way of developing contacts and maintaining networks. Does it change the nature of sales? I think so. I think it alters the norm from transactional to relationship based.
As I recently commented to a client in an email:
On a blog, anyone can read what you write: your market moves […]

Syndicating your blog entries

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

We all lead multifaceted lives. As individuals we have personal news, family news, work with organisations we treasure (such as charities) and then, of course, client facing responsibilities, internal work issues and communities of practice.
Many of the most prolifant bloggers blog content in many of these facets. But readers come to these sites to get […]