[chrisbrogan.com] Tumbles

Why Create Personal Media

What compels someone to blog daily? Why should one pick up a microphone and record themselves or...

Jul 31st

Facebook- When In Doubt

I just added a new application to my Facebook profile. It’s called Blog Friends. I’d turned down...

Jul 31st

Like Words for Snow

I need more words for “friend.” What do you call that person you really like a lot, but have only...

Jul 30th

Media Makers Next Steps

If I were creating a blog, or a podcast, or a videoblog, and I was still thinking about how to...

Jul 30th

Clones Rock

I have two fake me’s on Twitter. Maybe I’ve made it, or maybe I’m just that annoying. First up is...

Jul 29th

8 Random Things

I was tagged by The Fem Geek for 8 Random Things. I haven’t been playing lots of blog tag lately,...

Jul 28th

New Media Types- Pay Attention to...

Mike Arrington reported that things are afoot at PodTech. There’s some back and forth about how...

Jul 28th

But This Karaoke Goes to 11

I was in Atlanta the last few days to hang with all the cool kids at Turner (holy cow! LOTS of...

Jul 27th

Blogging Advice for the Next Level

Okay, you’ve started a blog. You’re writing posts, but you want more. You want more connection,...

Jul 25th

STATUS: I’m feeling cloudy in the head, foggy, forgetful, and my vision blurs a little from...

Jul 24th

Understanding Community Development...

Community Developers (evangelists, advocates, whatevers) are in the spotlight lately, thanks to...

Jul 24th

I’m thinking of using my Tumblr blog to be my personal status blog as well as a copy of my...

Jul 24th

Boston Area Twitter Meetup Tonight

Tonight, the 24th, there’s a Twitter meetup from 6-10PM at John Harvard’s Brew House ( details and...

Jul 24th

Boston Area Community Evangelist Wanted

A friend in a software services company is hiring two Boston-Area Community Evangelist types. She...

Jul 23rd

Is This Me

Katrina pointed me towards a list of the positives of someone with ADD. (I’m suspicious that I might...

Jul 23rd

Death of the Blackberry Pearl

Goodbye, sweet Blackberry Pearl. I didn’t mean to kill you. But your loss won’t go un-noted. For...

Jul 23rd

Accomplishment is What Matters

I walked into a McDonalds tonight to attempt to buy an iced coffee. I say “attempt” because the...

Jul 22nd

Tinkering in the Open

There’s something a little awkward about tinkering with social networks and communities out in the...

Jul 22nd

Links for 2007-07-21 [del.icio.us]

30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins Flickr: Photos from tetheredto (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 22nd

Why 78 is Better Than 878

We move the Grasshoppers group to Ning, and after about a day, we have 78 members over there: ...

Jul 21st

Links for 2007-07-20 [del.icio.us]

Make Internet TV : Shoot, Edit, Publish and Promote Your Videos (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 21st

Ways to Disrupt a Community

After four days of the Grasshoppers group on Facebook, I’ve thrown a curveball. I’ve built a...

Jul 20th

Weaving Communities

Why am I spending a lot of time on Twitter? What am I doing on Facebook? Why do I blog and podcast...

Jul 19th

Inane And Astounding

The countless variations of superpowers in this world are astounding. A little video to demonstrate:...

Jul 19th

Free Hugs Video

Just a repointer to this video, as the song just came on the stream I’m listening to. It reminds me...

Jul 19th

If I Owned Facebook

There are lots of people complaining about this and that with regards to Facebook. Jeff Pulver...

Jul 18th

What Gen Y Wants from Work

I’m a HUGE fan of GigaOM’s Web Worker Daily, and this guest article by Ryan Healy illustrates part...

Jul 18th

Bone Breaking Funny

It’s always nice to receive something in the mail, but better when it’s Twitter-driven. Humorist...

Jul 18th

Platform Platform Platform

Write a book or a movie, and you have fans. Build a platform around it and you have people taking...

Jul 17th

Build a Killer Info Network

Take what I wrote about using Google Reader and mash it up with what Robert Scoble wrote about the...

Jul 17th

Side by Side in a Bookstore

Tee hee. I found this just like this in a local bookstore. Is Andrew getting along nicely with...

Jul 17th

Help Me Connect You All Together

The “social” in social networks isn’t just through Facebook and LinkedIN and Twitter and whatever....

Jul 17th

Three Things LinkedIN Does Better than...

Jeff Pulver has signaled that he’s shifting his social networking efforts from LinkedIN to...

Jul 16th

Flee The Fishbowl and Re-EMBED in...

It’s come to me: the answer to what’s been bugging me for weeks. I’ve had this kind of malaise about...

Jul 15th

I Love the Wrestling Mayhem Guys

You give out your phone number randomly on Twitter, and this is what you get. : ) If you...

Jul 15th

Three Reasons to Join Grasshoppers

There’s a lot of energy and motion over at the Grasshoppers group on Facebook. So far, since...

Jul 15th

Links for 2007-07-14 [del.icio.us]

Supernova 2007 (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 15th

Mitch Joel Blows Me Away

Mitch Joel is a star talent: head of Twist Image, a marketing agency without peer, up in Montreal,...

Jul 14th

Announcing the Grasshoppers Network

Yesterday, I built a Facebook Group called Grasshoppers. The premise is simple: a network of people...

Jul 14th

How I Use Facebook

WOW! Facebook has become a hopping place. (By the way, my profile is here, should you want to...

Jul 13th

Can Social Media Fill Movie Theaters

My friends at Start Cooking have a really neat movie tie-in, and YOU can take advantage of it. Go to...

Jul 13th

Links for 2007-07-12 [del.icio.us]

Frequently Asked Questions for Video ~ Chris Pirillo FactoryCity » My default WordPress...

Jul 13th

Questions for You and Me

Here’s an idea: let’s ask each other some questions. I’ll ask YOU some questions, and you can ask...

Jul 12th

Hello tumblr. Feeling lonely?

Jul 12th

It Starts With Your Audience

Yesterday, Laura pointed out a great post by MISTER Brian Clark over at Copyblogger about how to...

Jul 12th

Links for 2007-07-11 [del.icio.us]

Frequently Asked Questions for Video ~ Chris Pirillo FactoryCity » My default WordPress...

Jul 12th

Fight One Problem at a Time

In action movies, one of the common recurring stupidities of any fight scene is that when 200...

Jul 11th

Practice Top to Bottom Communication

Effective communication requires structure. Be it in print or spoken formats, if you can’t...

Jul 10th

Storytelling

A friend and I were discussing the beauty of good storytelling. This ad does a great job of telling...

Jul 10th

Figure It Out

There’s something magical about assuming responsibility for more of your life. When you learn how...

Jul 10th

Happy Birthday Jon Swanson

It’s Jon Swanson’s birthday today. We’re doing all kinds of fun (silly) social media things to...

Jul 10th

Links for 2007-07-09 [del.icio.us]

Mix ID 23219 (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 10th

How I Use Twitter

The first thing people say when realizing just how many friends I’m reading on Twitter is, “How do...

Jul 9th

Considering Social Network Etiquette

Christopher S. Penn says of me, “We take Chris everywhere twice. The second time is to apologize.”...

Jul 9th

Steal Your Own Show

What’s cool about this footage, taken by Open Source Cinema and discovered via BoingBoing, is that...

Jul 9th

Links for 2007-07-08 [del.icio.us]

3 Dollars or Less : Cheap Eats (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 9th

Links for 2007-07-07 [del.icio.us]

55 Essential Articles Every Serious Blogger Should Read | Entrepreneurial Blog of Matt Huggins ...

Jul 8th

Connect Five - Summer of Projects

Our next effort for the Summer of Projects will be this: connect new readers / viewers / listeners...

Jul 8th

Start Every Day New

You can accomplish so much more when you don’t know that something can’t be done. The experts that...

Jul 6th

Why Do Community Development

At a business meeting this morning, a new friend asked me a few questions about all that I’m doing...

Jul 5th

The Matrix Lives Your Life

There’s an interesting read over at Hugh MacLeod’s blog about the blogging A-list being dead. It’s...

Jul 5th

Transformers Exclusive

In case you haven’t seen the Transformers yet (I’ll go tonight), I wanted to improve your...

Jul 5th

Social Networking Defined

The rockstars at CommonCraft have created yet another great definition video, this time, for social...

Jul 4th

Declaring Your Indepdendence

What’s true of the American Revolution was that it was a movement carried inside the hearts and...

Jul 4th

Links for 2007-07-03 [del.icio.us]

Homepage | introNetworks (via [chrisbrogan.com])

Jul 4th

Meme Clearing

I haven’t been as interested in playing meme games lately, but hey, here’s a weird coincidence:...

Jul 3rd

iPhone versus BlackBerry

I happen to use the BlackBerry Pearl, and won’t be getting an iPhone soon. But this is a good...

Jul 2nd

Should Your Small Business Use Community...

Using social network software makes great sense for people in the Internet space, in technology, in...

Jul 2nd

Why Join Another Social Network

I’m messing around with Pownce, a Twitter contender run by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose (of Digg), Daniel...

Jul 1st

Im a SOB

Thanks very much to Liz Strauss for naming me one of her “Successful Outstanding Bloggers.” ...

Jul 1st