This is part 1 in a series of building an intelligence dashboard using NetVibes.
What’s an intelligence dashboard?
An intelligence dashboard helps you keep your pulse on…well, there’s a lot of things you can keep your pulse on. In this series, we’re going to build an intelligence dashboard to assist with monitoring Tesla Motors in various [...]
I’ve been at the Social Media Strategies Conference in San Francisco the last 2 days, meeting great people, and learning plenty. Yesterday I was recruited by Colin Browning to lead a breakout session that was tasked with thinking about how to approach the development of social media strategy for a non-profit organization. During the session, [...]
Today, Google dove headfirst into the browser wars by releasing their own browser - Chrome. I’ve downloaded it, installed it, and have now been using it for 30 minutes. Here’s what I’m thinking…
Yes, it loads super fast. And that is definitely a welcome improvement from my beloved, but sometimes hated Mozilla Firefox. Firefox currently takes [...]
I have previously written that I believed Twitter’s tipping point was coming on November 4, 2008 - the night of the Presidential election. In that post, I wrote about how Twitter would cross into mainstream media and we would be seeing Tweets being quoted by news anchors. But Hurricane Gustav has played in a role [...]
A recent post on WP Candy posed the question "Does WordPress Scare Your Clients?" It is absolutely true that to some degree, new users will not be comfortable with the WordPress administrative dashboard and will not know how to do even the simplest tasks such as adding a new post. But being scared and not [...]
From all accounts I’ve read in the past two days, I missed an excellent weekend of influential presentations and priceless conversations at Gnomedex. Would have love to have been there, but such is life with two little kids.
But one conversation was somewhat encapsulated online by Britt Raybould and Chris Brogan. In their posts, Britt and [...]
At the recent Gnomedex conference, Beth Kanter raised well over $2500 to send a Cambodian child to school. As she reports, a lot of this happened without her being aware of it, while she was giving a presentation.
How did this actually happen?
It started with less than 140 characters posted to Twitter and a good cause. [...]
Federal government fees are crippling music recommendation and streaming service Pandora to the point that it may have to shut down. This would be a major loss to the Internet as well anyone who likes music - basically everybody. Justin Dorfman offers some ideas on what we can do to save it. Please give his [...]
Today, just in time for WordCamp San Francisco 2008, Shiny New Toy is taking the wraps off a new website we’ve been working on: WP Screencasts. WP Screencasts is a compilation of instructional training videos for managing web content with the WordPress platform. If you are a current client of ours and we’ve built a [...]
About a week ago the WordPress app for the iPhone was announced with an awesome screencast. And now that the app has been released and seeing that JJ and I are HUGE fans of WordPress, its only fitting that I do a quick review (especially since between the two of us, I’m the iPhone owner).
So… [...]
