If you’re hankering to have a snazzy, unique and truly you Twitter background, mytweetspace is for you, go here and create your own!
Check this article out from one of my favorite “all things Twitter” sites on how Twitter serves as a real time answer engine from Darren Rowse’s excellent Twitter Tips site. By the way you should be reading this site if you want to keep up with all the wonderful things you can do with Twitter!
Fantastic piece on Facebook and all its recent retooling by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. Go and read it.
Only have time for a short post but have to say that today’s highlight at SXSW was definitely the “Guy and Chris Show” for keynote.
What a wonderful opportunity each and every person had in that room to listen to two individuals who are driving the best of the best in all that is the Web and real conversation.
Much more later but here are some snippets:
1. Guy: “Will Free (Anderson’s upcoming book) be free?”
2. Guy: “I would not leave Twitter at this point – my followers would be unhappy. But Britney Spears blew by me (follower wise) in one day.”
3. Anderson: “I believe in paper – some paper adds value.”
4. Anderson: “Books matter – books still make sense.”
5. Guy: “I’m in control Chris.” (that was very funny.)
6. Guy: “I don’t want to sell myself, I want to rent myself.”
7. Guy: “I have an idea for you Chris – if people follow you on Twitter, they get a PDF of the book for free.”
8. Guy: “I just bought your book last week in Shanghai for 50 cents.”
9. Guy: “My test for spam is if I do it, it’s clever marketing, if it’s done to me, it’s spam.”
10. Anderson: “We have a love/hate relationship with free.”
Both Guy and Chris were very engaging, inspiring and illuminating!
The exchange on stage made me reflect on one of my favorite Jung quotes, “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Also look for an upcoming interview with Guy by my friend Steve Kayser of Cincom. I know it will be stellar.
A past interview with Guy - I did this interview for his book, “Art of the Start” – for the Must Read Business Books blog I created and wrote for 2 years at Allbusiness.com way back in the day. Of course now my name is gone from it – but that’s the way the content goes when you leave. It’s still a great blog though.)
My partner Jennifer Robenalt and I with our B is For Blog, LLC consultancy are offering some superb 2.0 seminars and I wanted to encourage you to attend them if you can!
Total disclaimer: We will actually give you real advice that you can use after the seminar. We do not want to offer ten week e-classes, we only provide actionable insight and tried and true tips for you to immediately implement.
Several years ago I worked for a mover and shaker in the business world who chided me often for sharing “too much information” and not requiring that people pay me for it.
Admittedly, I’m becoming more savvy about not giving everything away, but I still think it’s important for all of us to help one another when we can whether it be in business or in life.
One my heroes is Albert Schweitzer and I have this quote of his over my computer in my office.
“Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.” Albert Schweitzer
It inspires me to always share freely what I can with other folks. The knowledge I have, particularly in the online arena, comes from a ten year career as a technology journalist.
I would never have been able to be a success at that career had I not encountered so many wonderful CEOs like Jon Nordmark, Zach Nelson, Royal Farros, Evan Nisselson and countless others who were willing to share their company stories with me.
By doing that, they helped me stay a mom by day and writer at night!
And am always grateful to Mark Brownlow, the first person who hired me to do writing on the Web.
While we’re all very good at what we do, how often do we take a moment to easily explain to someone how to open a Twitter account, run a release on PRWeb.com or free of charge run their web site through HubSpot’s – Websitegrader.com?
If we’re the digital 2.0 revolution, let’s take as many folks as we can along with us. The world will be a better place by doing so.
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