BlueShirt Nation Evolves

Talkng with Laura Fitton, @pistachio, about Mix.Blueshirtnation Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social T...

Why Twitter still matters

From @Pistachio Brave New World of Digital Intimacy, New York Times Magazine CEO Guide to Microblogging, BusinessWeek (6-part Special Report) Fou...

having a twit fit

Here it is http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23smms

in the margin

"For a great period of invention, the artisans must become philosophers or the philosophers, artisans." -- Norbert Wiener

where'm i going?

                              Steve and I on the road again.

Giftag Flickrstream

Giftag at DEMOfall08 - the video

Giftag at DEMOfall08

Here's Steve and Curt at our booth in the DEMOfall08 Pavilion. From the Giftag Press Release: "Giftag is a web application. It adds functiona...

processing

Magnetic Ink, Process video from flight404

fellow broncrs

thomas  j sent me a message the other day: hello...i just purchased a rolling frame...super bronc...just likeyours...did you put a converter clutch...

spend your pennies - something to do until we get a new president

Let's save ourselves with 'change you can believe in.' Anyway, it's something to do. According to David Owen of the The New Yorker ;  The average ...

in the margin

"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."

bsn front page

I seem to be getting enough requests for access or screen shots I thought I'd just post them here.

wiki one oh one

As we try to get our enterprise to embrace the wiki as a way of collaborating and sharing knowledge across vast geo space - Steve Bendt suggested ...

bonfire

A bonfire is a large highly planned meeting with juice and bagels. Usually held in a special room with lots of a/v toys and stadium seating. Attend...

recent meme

We've heard of the social graph. As in mapping the social graph. Revealing relationships between people. It's a useful concept if not a very well n...

blog cliche number x

"random musings" and "pointless ramblings "    

help me answer adriana's question

Please help me answer this question - she's driving me nuts:   -----Original Message-----From: Adriana Sent: Wed 6/25/2008 2:24 PMTo: Koellin...

bsn benchmarking question

Here's a recent email exchange around how to measure and benchmark social media. Please feel free to question or comment.   -----Original Mess...

in the margin

"It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong."

fastwork.tv

groundswell question

Recently got a question about Groundswell via LinkedIn INMAIL: YOU HAVE A NEW MESSAGE Subject RE: Enabling groundswell in an enterprise On 6/22/08...

in the margin

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

hometown flood

my hometown of waverly ia took a hit recently when the cedar went over its banks.

adriana's questions

Got an email from a college student doing a summer paper on social networks. Here's my response: Adriana, So these are some pretty tough questi...

BSN Wordle

Visualized text from a recent BSN presentation using wordle

breaking it down redux

We're essentially presenting the same story about BSN that we presented in February in SF. The audience slightly different this time and so w...

in the margin

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

poolturd

poolturd : an object that creates hysteria in a crowd, forcing everyone out of the water.

in the margin

"Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can resu...

in the margin

"You know more than you think you do."

in the margin

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

in the margin

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

in the margin

"The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous."

Does it square?

I saw on Adrants “Most Think Marketing Should Manage Social Media, We Think It's PR”by Steve Hall on Mar-19-08. Not sure that it squares with ...

in the margin

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

in the margin

"Like less ostensibly humorous forms of criticism, [parody] can provide social benefit by shedding light on an earlier work and, in the process, cr...

let's clarify

I feel like I need to take just a second here and clarify a couple things about BSN (BlueShirt Nation). The presentation notes that I published un...

BSN Podcast Vol 3

Click to play 11:16 minutes (12.9 MB)This week's podcast isn't explicitly about BSN . In fact, BSN isn't really mentioned at all. This...

wufoo reports

wufoo makes pretty graphs and reports from the data you can collect with your forms. but they make it hard to get them out and embeddable - at lea...

in the margin

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

new giftag logo

partly because we have the attention span of gnats and partly because we work so iteratively, we've refreshed the logo and the site's not ...

BSN Podcast Vol 2

Click to play 8:10 minutes (4.68 MB)Jeez we need new microphones.