BlogWorld was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Amber Naslund: There are these big changes going on in how people interact, and we’re in charge. Are your parents scared? They should be. Our top fear isn’t failure, it’s being blamed. … they’d stone me to death. And not in the good way. […]
Peter Shankman rocked the BlogWorld keynote this morning. Here’s the best of what he said: When I was 18 credits short of a degree I got a letter that my scholarship was revoked because my parents made too much money. I wrote them back saying “They do make too much money. But they keep it.” […]
[This post is part of a 4 part series on the key tensions in growing a high quality community-generated content site. It was presented at PubCon, Las Vegas, 2011] Dan Ariely tells the classic story of mixing social and market contexts. A man finishes Thanksgiving Dinner at his mother-in-law’s house and says “That was fantastic. […]
[This post is part of a 4 part series on the key tensions in growing a high quality community-generated content site. It was presented at PubCon, Las Vegas, 2011] I happened to pick up my (nearly) 30-year-old copy of In Search of Excellence while preparing my PubCon presentation on High Quality UGC. A few points […]
“… the number of times that other search results are selected after a particular search result is selected (referred to as post-pogosticking) is also tracked. This pogosticking information may be used to improve search result ranking …” Yahoo! Patent Application, filed November 6, 2008 hat tip SEO by the Sea, Blind Five Year Old “Post-click SEO is going to become a larger […]
SMX East was awesome. Here’s the best of the best: Best Lines Jeff Jarvis: Google is portrayed as Godzilla but sees itself as Snufflupagus (hat tip: Lisa Barone) Marty Weintraub: Make your Facebook ads fun! “Lost your head”? “Goodbye stupid tools”, or “Don’t be a dumb__clockhead” ..”Facebook won’t let you say ass (hat tip: Akvile Harlow) […]
In April 2009 I began Managing Greatness as a blog to discuss one of my passions, helping great people create and market great products and services. I’ve experienced the flow and fulfillment from being part of great teams doing great things. And I’ve experienced the opposite. I’m committed to helping as many people as possible experience […]
I’ve been lucky enough to go to quite a few conferences in the past few years. With each I learn something new. I’ve been to SEO, social media, wiki and technology conferences (I know, I’m a big geek), but BlogPaws was my first blogging conference. What made it all the more interesting is that it […]
I have been running a MediaWiki based wiki for a couple of years now. When I started The Pet Wiki, I knew that I wanted it to be based on software that was dynamic, robust and being constantly improved. Since it’s the same code that runs Wikipedia, I was sure that I could count on […]
I was thrilled that WikiMania made it to Haifa. It was a great conference. Here was the best of the best: Best Lines Jimmy Wales: We need to recapture the spirit of innovation (in software) and not have a massive debate for each change. (hat tip: @Wittylama) Wikipedia cares about quality. Many articles the average […]