My mom is an excellent cook! I wanted to share her (not so secret anymore) squash soup recipe. Its an adventure in a pan. If you need help mention @rutabegus on Twitter and she will fill in the details.
I love my Subaru Outback, mainly because I can take it anywhere, put anything in it or on it and it runs like a charm. Something else I love about it is the digital dashboard display. This display tells me things like, how long my drive time is, my avg. MPG’s and how hot it is outside. Each day on my commute home I try and shave minutes off my drive time or I take different ways home to see if that changes the avg. MPG and the display lets me measure all of this. It’s really entertaining and adds big value to my driving experience. The cool thing is, that this idea can be applied anywhere. For instance the Nike+ product is a great way to combine product and statistics. When applied to a website, especially one that has members who are working towards a goal the idea gets very interesting. Even if the task isn’t epic in nature, the more statistics you can give to a user relating to the task, the more enjoyment the user will get. What I'm saying is why not share all those metrics you capture for your clients with your members? You all ready have the information, so why not give your users some bonus value? They will appreciate this. This also means the user will spend more time on the site, talk to more people about it, tell their friends to join, tweet/blog about it… and well you get the point.
I pass this site the street artists Shepard Fairey "bombed" on my way home from work everyday. I finally stopped to take a better look. That is my lovely mother in front of the anti-war image. She came to visit last month.
-Marcus
If you Twitter search WOM and Social Media together, you find a plethora of bad information, with the occasional buried nugget. So why is there so much confusion around what WOM is and what social media is? Because the two are often synonymous, they are however fundamentally different.
Dave fleet wrote a blog post recently about how he doesn’t care how long you have been on Twitter. In the post he talks about how people who have been on Twitter a long time don’t appreciate those who are new to Twitter and that these newbs are soiling the sanctity of Twitter (paraphrasing). A comment on his post rationalized the situation to when people love a new band so much they tell all there friends but when the band gets big they call them “sellouts”.
Today Blellow.com launched. Blellow is potentially a freelancers dream. The site has a Twitter-esk platform that brings together collective knowledge in the effort of figuring out tough problems. I truly believe Blellow can make a huge impact on how freelancers work if they find the right people; people who want to share all the tricks of their trade.
