A Tiny Case Study: How the SoMe Club PDX could use SoMe in a better fashion

So my experience buying a ticket for the SoMeClubPDX event on July prompted me to write my first post to this blog in almost 4 years. As the name of this blog posits, who has time to blog?

Here are just a few friendly notes for Social Media Club PDX and/or eventbrite.

I just booked a ticket for the @jowyang event at @webtrends. I clicked on the handy auto-tweet feature (very handy) and it filled in a tweet on my web-based twitter page. So far so cool. Here's what the auto-tweet feature wrote for me:

I'm attending Social Media Club Summer Social with Jeremiah Owyang and ISF at Web... -- smcpdx072209.eventbrite.com/?ref=twittershare

Here are the friendly pointers:

1. The tweet was so long, it truncated WebTrends' name
2. It was long because it used a full URL for the event instead of a "bit.ly" or other shortened URL
3. It didn't use the mentioned participants' twitter handles, i.e. @webtrends

I'm not sure who created the text for the tweet, but if SoMeClubPDX is about consistency in branding, using the tools properly, and SoMe in general, shouldn't they be setting a better standard?

If I had let that tweet go, my tweeps wouldn't have instantly know it was at Webtrends, for instance. And it's just crazy not to use the handles in the tweet.

Just sayin'!!

Love you guys, see you Wednesday.

Rob

So, I took this test at one of the "quiz" sites, where they have all sorts of serious and not so serious personality tests. Talk about memes! You were talking about memes, weren't you?

Anyway, they are all over the net, and I like to take one every now and then.

Here's the "Book Smart vs. Street Smart" test.

Below are my results. I'd have to say, my own personal view is I'm 50/50, but there you go. If a 1 minute test could nail a person's true self, well, we'd all know a lot more about ourselves and therapists would be flipping burgers for a living. Well, more they do now.

Also, the little "sun" icon represents where I am in the grid, but on the website, my marker was right on the border of "Naturally", "All Around", and "Socially" smart, whereas this post shows it down towards "Can't Find His Own Ass Without Help" smart. I offer that I am really closer to "Naturally All Around". Really.

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Naturally Smart You're a naturally smart person. Your intelligence comes to you naturally, rather than from instruction - and you are better with applied or more real-world things... which comes in handy, here in the real world. 60% applied intelligence 40% natural intelligence

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

I AM a lame blogger/podcaster

Dear Friends,

Just a note to acknowledge that I am, in fact, a lame blogger/podcaster for not blogging/casting very often. But as the name suggests, who has time to blog? Maybe I’ll be inspired to steal some already precious sleep time and stay up late and post my comments about politics, music, movies, and life onto my blog.

But, you know, most of what I write I send directly to my friends (who I know are interested in what I have to say) via email. A lot of blogs I read seem to be what they used to call vanity publishing…talking just to hear yourself. But I guess that’s the beauty of blogs: if one doesn't like it, one doesn't have to subscribe, right?

I HAVE been sending a lot of political information to various friends who have similar progressive leanings, so I could post these on the blog instead and see what happens.

I guess, if I use the tools more often, I’d get used to them, and it would be just as easy as copying and pasting web pages into an email.

SEE!!! Just another thinking-out-loud, talking-to-myself, narcissistic blog!!! Sheesh.

Rob goes Postal trying to create a mutlichannel, media rich audio blog


MP3 File

First Post

Hi there,

Sorry for the meager attempt at a first blog. This is as much about just getting any kind of post at all as it is about saying something.

Have you ever done "The Artist's Way"? It's a process for unblocking and/or fostering creativity. And one of the things they suggest is a daily "download" of thought, first thing in the morning. They suggest you just start to write the first thing that comes to your mind, and eventually the rest will follow.

And see there, I've burned more than 3 lines here just babbling about typing! I LOVE blogging so far.

ROB TAKES A PUFF FROM A CIGARETTE:

How was it for you?

So, I'm Rob Sample. I will devulge more as we go along, as time and patience permits. That's our time, and your patience.

Oh, and I love the template fun we can have here. I went to change to this lovely template... sort of a nice sage green thing, and the text of the example blogs were very curious, but smart. For instance, I love this line: "Trens roxas eis ti Plokeing quert loppe". I was just saying that to a friend today, but I don't think it was taken from an actual blog, that would plagerism.

Also known as "blogging".

Sorry. As you'll see, I'm a smart ass, and I usually don't pass up the opportunity for a smart comment like that, steeped in 'truth' or not. But I will try not to be catty or mean. It really isn't in my nature, but I have had to pry my shoe out of my mouth before.

And hopefully that's one of the things we learn as we get older: wear slippery shoes.

OK. That should wrap up my momentous foray into the blogosphere.

I might post a picture if I can find one that isn't too bad (it will be difficult).

Best,

Rob