Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Furlitis?
A little mystery at Furl, when searching for tag-specific pages defined by multiple tags. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=blog+canada includes one link. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=canada+blog contains no links. Clearly, both pages should be...
What a difference 2 years makes
Today I spent some time looking around for server-side RSS aggregators that would give me more configuration options than I can get in Bloglines. In the course of my travels I came across this interesting snippet, dated March 4 2003: I looked at a couple of RSS...
e-Engagement Tools That Fit
Organizations have tremendous cultural variations that need to be considered when designing an e-engagement plan or selecting e-engagement tools. E-engagement will be most successful when it’s based on tools that fit with the way an organization approaches technology and with the way it approaches engagement. Since organizations may approach internal (employee) engagement differently […]
10 tools that tap the power of blogs
Blogging has been a hot topic here at OD2005. While there’s a lot of interest in blogging as a tool of public conversation, there’s also a lot of skepticism about the quality of information and discourse on blogs.
In my own presentations I have talked both about how to use blogging as an engagement tool and […]
Make blogging part of your workflow
For all my tagging evangelism, I've been enigmatic and elusive about how I myself use tagging to be a better blogger, a better worker, and a better human being. But the whole reason I've become such a tagging fanatic is because it's allowed me to dramatically...
The Annotated New York Times
Michael Weiksner of E-ThePeople showed us a site called The Annotated New York Times, which shows what people are saying about the NYT on the blogosphere. It’s a lot like what Salon is doing with Technorati.
My presentations at the Online Deliberation 2005 Conference
I’m presenting on two different panels at OD2005. My main paper (in room 380x at 2:40 on Saturday) is on “Found” Enagement: Lessons from Hacktiivsm and Blogging. I’ll be talking about the increasingly fuzzy boundary between formal consultation and spontaneous activism, and how online deliberation can learn to incorporate spontaneous participation the way offline […]
RSSMix
Combine a whack of RSS feeds into a single uber-feed.
del.icio.us feeds my vanity
We spend a lot of time using the Internet as a mirror. A lot of the time we use it as a big mirror that helps us see the people who think like us or talk like us or dress like us. Many web tools succeed by helping us focus that big mirror down towards a reflection...
Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging
My piece on tagging finally appeared in the Toronto Star today, after a long struggle to make the tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience. Since the final story had to be edited significantly due to space limitations, I'm posting the...
The Harvard Business Review
Furlitis?
A little mystery at Furl, when searching for tag-specific pages defined by multiple tags. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=blog+canada includes one link. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=canada+blog contains no links. Clearly, both pages should be...
What a difference 2 years makes
Today I spent some time looking around for server-side RSS aggregators that would give me more configuration options than I can get in Bloglines. In the course of my travels I came across this interesting snippet, dated March 4 2003: I looked at a couple of RSS...
e-Engagement Tools That Fit
Organizations have tremendous cultural variations that need to be considered when designing an e-engagement plan or selecting e-engagement tools. E-engagement will be most successful when it’s based on tools that fit with the way an organization approaches technology and with the way it approaches engagement. Since organizations may approach internal (employee) engagement differently […]
10 tools that tap the power of blogs
Blogging has been a hot topic here at OD2005. While there’s a lot of interest in blogging as a tool of public conversation, there’s also a lot of skepticism about the quality of information and discourse on blogs.
In my own presentations I have talked both about how to use blogging as an engagement tool and […]
Make blogging part of your workflow
For all my tagging evangelism, I've been enigmatic and elusive about how I myself use tagging to be a better blogger, a better worker, and a better human being. But the whole reason I've become such a tagging fanatic is because it's allowed me to dramatically...
The Annotated New York Times
Michael Weiksner of E-ThePeople showed us a site called The Annotated New York Times, which shows what people are saying about the NYT on the blogosphere. It’s a lot like what Salon is doing with Technorati.
My presentations at the Online Deliberation 2005 Conference
I’m presenting on two different panels at OD2005. My main paper (in room 380x at 2:40 on Saturday) is on “Found” Enagement: Lessons from Hacktiivsm and Blogging. I’ll be talking about the increasingly fuzzy boundary between formal consultation and spontaneous activism, and how online deliberation can learn to incorporate spontaneous participation the way offline […]
RSSMix
Combine a whack of RSS feeds into a single uber-feed.
del.icio.us feeds my vanity
We spend a lot of time using the Internet as a mirror. A lot of the time we use it as a big mirror that helps us see the people who think like us or talk like us or dress like us. Many web tools succeed by helping us focus that big mirror down towards a reflection...
Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging
My piece on tagging finally appeared in the Toronto Star today, after a long struggle to make the tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience. Since the final story had to be edited significantly due to space limitations, I'm posting the...
OneZero
How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0: Part 3 – Earning revenue with advertising
If your site attracts a lot of visitors — or even a niche community of visitors that advertisers want to reach — you can place advertising on your site to generate revenue. This post looks at three types of advertising to consider.
YouTube views as a proxy for web success
We're often asked how organizations can measure the return on investment from social media. Frank Rich's column in today's New York Times effectively uses YouTube views as a proxy for the overall success of the Obama and Clinton campaigns in tapping the power of the...
New look & feel, kind of almost there
The new and much improved look of my blog is based on the blog style template at Open Designs, created by fellow-Canadian Collin Grasley. Rob hacked it into Wordpress-iness for me, a process that's still being debugged. Open Designs is a very cool site that offers...
Please standby while this leopard changes its spots
We're retheming alexandrasamuel.com tonight. Could get funky, people!
Good parenting 2.0
Why you should make sure your kids have a unique username.
Wrap your brand in reflected glory
Someone needs to tell the folks at Glad: Unless your customers pay for the privilege of wearing your logo, don't build an online community around your brand.
How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0: Intellectual property
How can nonprofits pay for their online community endeavors? One answer lies in intellectual property. The creation of a sophisticated web site involves the creation of a lot of intellectual property — property that has financial value. This blog post looks at some of the ways that property can be monetized.
This iPod weighs four pounds
Today is the 8-day anniversary of my iPhone, and in those eight days a whole bunch of people have asked if I’ve lost weight. Turns out that the iPhone has magical weight-shrinking properties.
JSTOR DAILY
How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0: Part 3 – Earning revenue with advertising
If your site attracts a lot of visitors — or even a niche community of visitors that advertisers want to reach — you can place advertising on your site to generate revenue. This post looks at three types of advertising to consider.
YouTube views as a proxy for web success
We're often asked how organizations can measure the return on investment from social media. Frank Rich's column in today's New York Times effectively uses YouTube views as a proxy for the overall success of the Obama and Clinton campaigns in tapping the power of the...
New look & feel, kind of almost there
The new and much improved look of my blog is based on the blog style template at Open Designs, created by fellow-Canadian Collin Grasley. Rob hacked it into Wordpress-iness for me, a process that's still being debugged. Open Designs is a very cool site that offers...
Please standby while this leopard changes its spots
We're retheming alexandrasamuel.com tonight. Could get funky, people!
Good parenting 2.0
Why you should make sure your kids have a unique username.
Wrap your brand in reflected glory
Someone needs to tell the folks at Glad: Unless your customers pay for the privilege of wearing your logo, don't build an online community around your brand.
How your non-profit can earn revenue with Web 2.0: Intellectual property
How can nonprofits pay for their online community endeavors? One answer lies in intellectual property. The creation of a sophisticated web site involves the creation of a lot of intellectual property — property that has financial value. This blog post looks at some of the ways that property can be monetized.
This iPod weighs four pounds
Today is the 8-day anniversary of my iPhone, and in those eight days a whole bunch of people have asked if I’ve lost weight. Turns out that the iPhone has magical weight-shrinking properties.
