Live-Pinning on Pinterest?!
Fyi: I’m currently live-pinning this #smbmsp event on Pinterest.
— Karl Pearson-Cater (@bigboxcar) January 27, 2012
You know, this was a joke. I tweeted it after panelist David Brauer deadpanned that his favorite social media site was Pinterest when asked.
But the more I think about it, I’m actually going to have to try it out. Here’s the Pinterest board I’ll be “live-pinning” at if you want to follow it. I just need to think of the event to try it out on. Ideas? Also, how pissed off do you think my Pinterest followers will get?
When I started using my own voice, my career took off.
Minnesota Public Radio Marketplace Tech Reporter John Moe, on a panel at Social Media Breakfast #43, “Public Media”.
For some reason, that quote stuck in my head after the panel discussion over at TPT headquarters today. And it had nothing to do with social media. Kind of.
It was a short story about Moe literally using his own voice for his work. Moe was saying how early in his career he tried to sound like the stereotypical “Public Radio” voice and it sounded terrible (think Saturday Night Live skit). When he decided to use his own voice, things started working out really well.
Of course, that’s an eloquent way to illustrate how if you use your own voice in social media (or on your blog, or at your work, or in your poetry, or in your art), you will succeed. Very nicely put. But sometimes, easy to forget.
Social Media Breakfast #43 speakers ready to roll today. David Brauer taking a pic of me taking a pic!
Left to right: John Moe, Julia Schrenkler, David Brauer, John Daenzer, Marry Lahammer & Johnathan Kealing
I’ve taken this photo before. Can’t help myself. Morning winter sunrise in downtown Minneapolis.
Huh. So, maybe some Republicans don’t want Newt to win? Seems like a stretch, but this is currently the top spot on DrudgeReport.com tonight: “INSIDER: GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN”
Screengrab above. “Embedded” tweet below:
Holy! I didn’t know Twitter recently made embedding tweets on blogs posts SUPER EASY NOW! Very nice: play-this.org/2011/12/13/emb…
— Karl Pearson-Cater (@bigboxcar) January 25, 2012
Very nice! Links are clickable and the author name is clickable. You can even follow the user from this embedded tweet. (Kinda overkill, but that’s okay.)
And it’s SUPER easy! See the text “Embed this Tweet” on the screenshot above? That’s from the pernalink for the tweet. Click on that link and you get the code.
I learned about it when I found this post — there are *much* clearer instructions on how to do this: “Embedding Tweets is Easier Than Ever With Latest Twitter Update”.
Note: The Tumblr Dashboard destroys the embedded tweet styles (of course), so you’ll need to view this post on my blog to see how it looks
I did a little experimenting and it looks like if you are embedding a @reply then the original tweet shows up above it. Brilliant.
These are suggested alternatives from Youtube.com for my username because “bigboxcar” was taken. I know! BIGBOXCARIFY!!! Eh, pass.
Back when I set up my youtube channel (bigboxcarkpc), the username “bigboxcar” had already been registered and was being used. But today, I noticed the user had closed the account! So I went to register it.
But you can’t register a name of a “closed” account on YouTube. How dumb is that?
According to a LEVEL 18 YouTube.com Commenter:
Okay. Apparently I can try to contact the owner who can “give” me the username. But that seems impossible if the account is closed. Whatevs then.
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
In an important move, bit torrent portal The Pirate Bay announces a new category of torrents called Physibles, focusing on sharing 3-D printing designs – affirmation for these 7 platforms changing the future of collaborative creation. (via curiositycounts)
>WHoa<.
Via Why Your Company Needs to Structure Properly for Social Media… Right Now | Edelman Digital: (emphasis mine)
Richard Edelman unveiled the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer. It’s the twelfth year that we’ve conducted the study, which tries to answer the seemingly simple question: “Who do you trust?” One thing is clear from this year’s research: It isn’t your CEO.
Interesting post. I had not seen this kind research before. It’s a great question to ask.
I totally just repinned this to my Pinterest board: Wow. / Pepperoni Pizza Sweater — and then I tumblr’d it, which automatically posts to Twitter. Sorry, Facebook. I’ll have to recreate this organically later.
Perfect. Awesome violinist responds to concert interrupted by cell phone ring by improvising on the Nokia ringtone. [via]
7 Creative Ways Your Brand Can Use Pinterest - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
Good post. So, I’m researching Pinterest for clients. Anyone have any boards I should follow? Find me: I’ve started pinteresting here.
MEGA PARTY (by knopik96)
I’m gonna use this in a presentation someday soon.
It is Tuesday and it is cold We need a little of this.
This “Change A Tire Party” is awesome.
While [Summify] is being closed down, it seems fairly obvious that Twitter bought the company to try to incorporate that kind of semantic filtering into its offerings — likely by beefing up its new “Discover” tab, which uses trending topics and other features to try and suggest interesting content to users. As it exists now, the Discover option isn’t very comprehensive or well-organized, and it makes sense for Twitter to try to do that better. One of the service’s challenges has always been to figure out how to keep new users engaged, since it isn’t clear to many what exactly Twitter is for.
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future — Tech News and Analysis
This is good news — probably. I never use the new “Discover” tab on Twitter. And I’ve never used Summify, but was *just* checking it out last week because it was recommended by a Twitter service called formulists.com (which is shutting down, unfortunately). Their take on Summify was: “Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile” Hmmm…
This JAMBOX thing looks kinda nice.
