The Greenhouse has surpassed 100 members. Neat. According to Ning’s stats, the site has had 35,000 views. From what I can tell, more people learned of The Greenhouse from Gardenfork than from Real World Green.
The Greenhouse has been showing up in Google searches. One new member specifically cited a Google search for yogurt cheese brought him to the site.
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I was on a flight to San Jose last night, and I noticed several people who had shirts on that suggested they had something to do with the tech world. One had a Facebook developers t-shirt on.
I was thinking that there is a certain mass anonymity in airports, yet there is this great potential as well. What are all these people doing in the airport? Do they have similar interests to you? Are they working on a new startup that you might be interested in? Do you and the person next to you collect watches?
Perhaps the Twitter and Facebook coders could come up with an Airport Similarity Locator plug in?
Many people want to be left alone when at the airport, but there are those of us who might find it at least fun to meet like-minded people like ourselves while being captive in the airport.
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I set up Twitter Tools a while back to post a daily digest of my Twitters on my blog here. I’ve decided to turn that particular feature of Twitter Tools off. I’ve found that while my Twitters have some relevance, they aren’t great blog posts, and people who subscribed to the blog don’t need their blog readers filled up everyday with my Twitter posts.
I am using Twitter Tools to send a Twitter out whenever I post a new entry to the blog. Alex King has a number of great plug-ins for Word Press. Go check them out: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
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I got my first Twitter Spam today. Or at least I was invited to follow a Twitter account that was all spam.
Whenever I’m told someone is following me, and I’m asked if I want to follow them, I check out their Twitter page to see just what it is they Twitter. This person is following about 300 people and surprisingly, 50+ people are following him/her. I guess there are some of us who automatically hit the ‘follow’ button whenever we learn someone is following us.
Some Twitter people feel that one should always follow anyone who is following them, I disagree. I follow some people who I find interesting, but I don’t think they must follow me in kind. My Twitters are not relevant to everyone. While the crux of social networking is a many to many relationship, I don’t need to have everyone I connect with connect back to me unless they want to.
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my social media friends Nicole and Marc of The Wood Whisperer gave a talk at Podcamp AZ about using Ustream.tv
Nicole makes some very good points about stickiness and building viewers into foamers.
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I was invited by Andrew Lipson and Jeff Pulver to appear on Jeff Pulver’s Blogtv.com show, Pulver.tv. It was great. Thanks for having me.
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Chris Brogan posted some tips/thoughts about how to improve in-person social events and I wanted to elaborate a bit on my comments on his blog.
We all go to these events hoping to connect with that person that is key to our plan, right? Well, at least I do. But its a bit of a mystery who of all the people in this room I really need to talk to. Which person is the key to my future?
…in a room with 150 people, filled to the gills, there’s a lot of silly bouncing off each other that happens while trying to find the right kinds of people to met. Chris Brogan
Bill Sobel, host of NYMIEG, does this neat thing before his events. He posts a list of attendees on his Yahoo Group listing their company and/or website. I scan this list, sometimes even loading it into my Treo, and when I get to the breakfast, I know who I want to talk to. Sometimes they even want to talk back to me.
Nametags are also key. Bill has a laptop and label printer at the entrance, and your nametag is printed right there. Graced with a very short attention span, your name just below your shoulder is real helpful.
At BKLN 2.0 I ask everyone to make their own nametag, we have a stack of blank labeles and a pen, and it works. Simple.
On the BKLN 2.0 meetup page, you can scan who has RSVP’d for the event, and most post some sort of information about themselves along with a picture. It works.
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Twice in two nights of talking with the social media types of New York it has been said to me:
“Yeah, I’ve cut down on my Twitters.”
Twitter is great for learning about news and links and what your friends are doing, but there are those who over-twitter. One wonders what they do besides Twitter. A constant stream of @joeblow comments and Seesmic posts that aren’t really all that interesting populate Twitter.
I have tried to make my Twitter posts more relevant, and less frivolous, especially since I am now posting a digest of my Twitters here, making Twitter a true micro-blogging platform.
