TweetAs an interesting follow on to the previous session on blog monetization, I attended a panel on maintaining integrity on blogs when you do advertising or promotions on your site, featuring Danny Brown, Gini Dietrich and Eden Spodek. A lot of this is about transparency and disclosure; one audience member said that she writes paid [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetThe next session that I attended was Andrea Tomkins talking about how to make money through advertising on your blog. She started with ways that blogs can pay off without direct monetization, such as driving other sorts of business (just as this blog often drives first contacts for my consulting business) and leveraging free trips [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetI arrived at PodCamp Toronto after the lunch break today; “PodCamp” is a bit of a misnomer since this unconference now covers all sorts of social media. My first session of the day with Brian Cugelman on the psychology of websites was a bit of a disappointment: too much of a lecture and not enough [...]
Tagged pcto2011TweetSeems that there’s a problem with this theme on IE6 and IE7 – I only tested on IE8, my bad. I’ll get a fix in this weekend, either a new theme or a modified version of this one. Thanks for your patience! Update: I’ve reinstalled my old theme for now, although now the header gradient [...]
TweetI’ve been seeing some performance problems with this blog, and have moved it over to PressHarbor on the advice of my friend Joey, who uses it for his very popular blog that sees a lot more traffic that I do. I’ve also changed the theme to a cleaner look that supports a few additional features [...]
TweetDennis Howlett has a post today about paper.li, a service to create a daily roundup of the content collected by the people who you follow on Twitter. Sound confusing? Click through to read Dennis’ article and the one that he points to by Neville Hobson. Basically, if I follow you on Twitter and you tweet [...]
TweetIt’s been quiet for several months for conferences, but things are heating up again for the next four weeks. Here’s my upcoming schedule: This week, I’m at PegaWorld in Philadelphia, including chairing a workshop on Wednesday morning on case management The week of May 3rd, IBM Impact in Las Vegas The week of May 10th, [...]
TweetI recently swapped around my office space, and found some old (paper) notebooks that I browsed through before shredding. One of them, from 2006, contained a page of notes that I jotted down about why consultants don’t blog: Not enough time Too few “outside” interests (aside from proprietary customer work), hence nothing interesting to blog [...]
TweetAs of today, I’ve been writing this blog for five years. My first post was on BPTrends’ 2005 BPM Suites Report, and I’m still pretty focused on BPM, although have branched out to cover a wider variety of Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration topics as well. In the beginning, it was just labeled as my business [...]
TweetThanks to Zoli, the 25% of my readers whose first language is probably not English (as indicated by the browser language setting) can now view this site in 50 other languages, thanks to a new widget in the sidebar. If you read this through Google Reader, then you can set it to auto-translate there, instead: [...]
TweetIf you ever wonder what BPM analyst/architect/bloggers do in their spare time, wonder no more: Ignite T.O. Sandy Kemsley -The Hungry Geek from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo. I was invited to give a presentation at Ignite! Toronto this week, and decided to discuss how I’ve been using social media – Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, blogging – [...]
TweetVia Mashable, I discovered a cool little gadget this morning: Retaggr, which allows me to create a profile page and badge with all my social media links, then embed it on my blog or website: You can click on the links within it to show the content from those sites directly within the badge, or [...]
TweetI’ve been absent from blogging for a while – with the exception of the links posts that are auto-generated from my Delicious bookmarks – due to a very heavy client workload and very few conferences to blog about. I have been twittering, but my Twitter stream tends to contain random thoughts and personal observations rather [...]
TweetI pledged to write a blog post for today, Ada Lovelace Day, in honour of a woman in technology who I admire. Although there have been some great women in technology throughout history – Grace Hopper comes to mind, and is the subject of many blog posts today – I wanted to write about someone [...]
Tagged ALD09postTweetI just replaced the WPtouch iPhone Theme with MobilePress after seeing it on Doug Cornelius’ blog. I think that it supports a wider range of mobile devices; I also like the clean interface, and that the pages show at the bottom of the main posts list. Feedback is welcome, especially from anyone on a non-iPhone/iTouch [...]
TweetBarton George tagged me on the latest internet meme to tell you seven things about me. Given that less than two years ago, I played along with the “five things you don’t know about me” meme, I figure that I only owe you two more: I prefer to go barefoot, or at least sock-less, whenever [...]
TweetIn a post about collaboration, of all things, a Gartner analyst shows how not to interact with his blog’s readers. If you’re a frequent reader of Jim Sinur’s blog, you know that in most posts he invites conversation with open-ended questions at the end, e.g., “What is your experience with this issue”, presumably to feed [...]
TweetI’ve just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.7, which means that I never had to do the download-upload-upgrade cycle again. I upgraded two other sites earlier with no problems, and I don’t expect any here, but if you see any strange behavior, please let me know by posting a comment.
TweetIt’s time for the Canadian blog awards, and I’m nominated in the “Best Sci/Tech Blog” category. Feel free to head over there and cast your vote; you do not have to be Canadian to vote.
TweetWhen I switched to the new Google-hosted version of FeedBurner (which soon everyone using FeedBurner will be forced to convert to), they screwed up my feed, causing my subscriptions to drop by about 20%. Since then, my numbers have come back to to around what they were — presumably through organic growth of the people [...]
