[Trust is the CORE Value Online]
How to Build Trust in Your Online Community: 8 Key Points
1. Lead by example; 2. Get personal; 3. Be honest; 4. Accept you're human; 5. Be knowledgeable and share; 6. Maintain consistency; 7. Let it go; 8. Don't give up.
The Day I Was Flamed At My Blog (And 7 Steps To Handle Flames With Grace) from ProBlogger
The anonymous commenter described my series as “incredibly self-centered and biased”. She had somehow concluded from the articles that I was “ridiculous”, “delusional”, was pursuing personal development with “superficiality”, among other points. After reading it, I was filled with bewilderment. The comment bordered more as an attack than constructive criticism.
A Dear John Letter to PR Folks from Amber Naslund of Radian6
You see, I don’t write about the kind of stuff you’re pitching. I don’t announce promotions, or analyze them, or talk about them. I don’t evaluate technology or applications. I don’t review products or talk about them much unless there’s a larger, more specific context that I’ve initiated.
[LOTS of iPAD stuff]
Citrix How-to showing you how to use the Wireless Trackpad feature for the Receiver for iPad.
The Flash Blog: Apple Slaps Developers In The Face and Adobe slaps back.
By now you have surely heard about the new iPhone 4.0 SDK language that appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. Obviously Adobe is looking into this wording carefully so I will not comment any further until there is an official conclusion.
SXSW Was a Tweet Success: Analyzing 2009-2010 Activity and Sentiment on Twitter
2009 tweets: 261,129 vs 2010 tweets: 395,247
Apple iAd: ‘Multiple Billion Dollar Business’ or ‘Minor to Negligible’
The company is one of the most beloved by analysts on the street, who’ve been punching up their paeans to the company this morning. Here’s a smattering of their thoughts. "Keep an eye on Apple and Google shares Friday, as the fight between the two tech giants just got hotter." (4-9-10 AAPL UP +1.84 UP 0.77% vs GOOG DN -1.27 DN 0.22%)
Fast Company: Apple Introduces iAd: All iPhone 4.0 Roads Lead to Advertising
iAd is Apple's long-awaited play in mobile advertising, the one running in the background of all it's done recently. And it's distinctly Apple-flavored. Just like Google's strategy is based on its strength–search–Apple's iAd is based on its bailiwick, apps. All of these ads will be in-app, and they're a far cry from the typical banner ads Steve Jobs just decried as "boring." The new ads will be based on HTML5 (in yo face, Adobe!), and will be interactive, "emotional," and built right into iPhone 4.0–where Apple controls every part of the ad.
Is Apple Really Committed to the iPad – Design Mind / Frog Design
So, why do I suggest that Apple is hedging its bets despite all the hype? Because their software investment in the iPad is really, really low. All they have done is update a few of their apps, principally iWork, with new graphics that they can and will roll onto OS X pretty soon (once they add touch-screens to their laptops in the coming years).
[Corporate Survival]
Letting Go Steve Woodruff – Sticky Figure
Many of us work in structures called corporations. It’s familiar, and these structures evolved to fill a purpose. But does that structure allow us to optimize our abilities, maximize our time investment, and earn what we’re worth? Should we think of company structures as some kind of inescapable default – or can we let go of the familiar and create new business approaches?
[Closing out with some POETRY from local favorite Austin Kleon]
ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
Austin Kleon gets Newspaper Blackout covered in the New Yorker. WOW!
And finally, just for fun the Shit My Kids Ruined site.
@jmacofearth
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