tools | Kris Smith has read these articles about "tools" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "tools" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpBlogcatalog SezWho Partnership - Passes MyBlogLog Traffic- January 30, 2008 For the last few weeks Blogcatalog have been driving full steam with new features, and today announce a partnership with SezWho, the comment and reputation ranking platform. I have been slacking a little over the last month on the updates, so time to play catch up. First of all some big news, Blogcatalog has now surpassed MyBlogLog in traffic levels, if you believe Alexa data. They are in exactly the same niche, and share plenty of users, so whilst I don&39;t trust Alexa data extensively, this..http://andybeard.eu/2008/01/blogcatalog-sezwho.html NTFSready cleans up your filename act- January 30, 2008 Filed under: Enterprise, Software, SwitchersOne of my intermittent day-job responsibilities is to move big chunks of data (20 GB or more in a session) from the friendly, forgiving, name-your-files-whatever-you-want confines of a Mac OS X server onto cranky, finicky, no-funky-characters (but portable) NAS devices so that the data can travel with a production team to some far-away city. This is generally a straightforward and simple task, except for one annoying fact: illegal characters, as SMB...http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/225922345/ Barking at SEO- January 30, 2008 If you don&39;t know what SERP is, don&39;t bother reading on. But - if you care about where your site shows up in the search engines, take a look at Ted Rheingold (CEO of Dogster&39;s) post on Recommended Free Online SEO Tools. I'd spend some time on this but I've got to go pet Brooks. Tags: seo free recommended dogster onlinehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/225906041/barking_at_seo.html Tools of the Trade- January 30, 2008 As video producers we are all familiar with cameras like the Panasonic AG-HVX-200 P2 or editing software like Final Cut Pro but most of us are not that familiar with a very special tool called a Media Kit.For those of you just getting into the online video business - Media Kits are sell sheets that explain to Media Buyers what a media property (in our case an online video) is about, who it reaches and what inventory that media property has available for that Media Buyer to advertise on. Media...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/1TimStreet/~3/225644520/tools-of-trade.html Shel Israel to Fast Company, launches Video Show- January 29, 2008 Congrats to social media author, advisor, speaker and expert Shel Israel to join Fast Company with his co-author to launch the Global Neighborhoods online video show. Shel pioneered much of the thinking of business blogging with the Naked Conversations book (I purchased 65 copies for me and my colleagues) and will be leading the same passion for social media with his upcoming show. When we look at what Fast Company is doing, they're really empowering a new generation of medium as video becomes.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WebStrategyByJeremiah/~3/224803645/ 2008: The Year Web 2.0 Hits the Enterprise, Says Forrester- January 28, 2008 According to Forrester Research, there will be "strong demand" for web 2.0 tools in the enterprise in 2008. Even though 42% of enterprises say adding web 2.0 tools is not on their agenda, according to a Q3 2007 survey, Forrester expects that half of those will change their mind and embrace web 2.0 tools by year end. In the report "Top Enterprise Web 2.0 Predictions For 2008," analyst Oliver Young gives three reasons why he thinks 2008 is the year that "IT departments will take their heads out..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/224668678/2008_web20_enterprise_forrester.p... Understanding the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks- January 28, 2008 It's easy to get the tools mixed up, but it's important to know the differences. Quite often (usually by executives) I'm asked the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks, here's usually how I explain it (focusing first on usage and benefits rather than technical details): Forums are like social mixers, where everyone is at equal level, milling about and discussing with others. These many to many communication tools allow anyone to start a topic and anyone to respond to one. ...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WebStrategyByJeremiah/~3/224576807/ Why Your Social Media Plan should have Success Metrics- January 25, 2008 So, you're going to launch a social media campaign huh You've got all the tools, resources, and processes together, but did you remember to set some goals I get to meet and talk to many companies that are adopting social media from a variety of levels of sophistication: unsure, scared, excited, embracing, overly ecstatic. One of the biggest challenges they have is forgetting to visualize what success looks like. In many cases, they are overly focused on fondling the hammer, that they forget..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WebStrategyByJeremiah/~3/222938165/ Google May Knee Cap Domain Tasting- January 25, 2008 Google is said to be considering banning newly registered domain names from participating in the Google for Domain Names program, severely hampering the practice of domain tasting. According to Jay Westerdal at Domain Tools, Google would block all domains if they are less then five days old. In Jay's words, This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. Domain tasting, for those not familiar with it, is the practice of registrants using the five-day...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/222769882/ Social networking changes- January 25, 2008 In this new release we're going to be removing social networking functionality from blip. We're not doing this because we don't want to have social networking functionality, but rather because the functionality we have right now is broken and we want to build the right thing from the ground up. Please note that I'm talking about our own internal social networking not our plug-in to MySpace, Facebook and the rest of the Web all of that functionality will remain. Right now your contacts on...http://blog.blip.tv/blog/2008/01/24/social-networking-changes/ |