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Syndication

Kid Richter (KidRichter) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:55:09 GMT

Seit kurzem versuche ich den ganzen MicroBlog-Blog-Social-Profile-Mist zu syndicalisieren. Mittels ping.fm gelingt das sehr gut. Allerdings muss ich mich noch in die Feinheiten vertiefen, damit der eventuell sinnvolle Unterschied zwischen ausführlichen Posts und Status-Updates gemacht und kanalisiert werden kann.

Ein anderer Weg (Tumblr > via SendMeRSS > Gmail > Messagedance > Blog) funktioniert jedenfalls momentan nicht...

Supercharge your tweets with FatBird ; Its on Steroids.

Rajesh Shetty (rshetty) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:18:25 GMT

This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to see breaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media. Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me gap between mainstream media and twitter media is very perceptional and your attention span. Big difference between these two is that news on twitter comes in packet of 140 characters and you have running stream of updates to read the whole story. Having said that every tweet (one status update on Twitter) becomes very important for followers (in a traditional media its readers) to consume when someone updates his/her status (traditionally news publisher). Th...

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New Features: FatBird and FWDance. MessageDance introduces new way to blog your tweets

Ask Sam (AskSam) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:46:48 GMT

Well we have been too busy working on new features. We added tons of exciting features. Some of those we are announcing today.

MessageDance is an email service. We like to call ourselves social email delivery. We understand very well issues affecting mainstream email services. There is spam, clutter, asynchronous attention issues, and general pain to deal with attachment pain.

With this new release we decided to address non-work related email attachments. We call it FWDance. I remember how our sys-admins used to send emails emphasizing email best practices. One best practice used to be related to handling big attachments. Your colleague's funny lol cat haz message was usually just one click (and one virus) away from bringing high stakes product rollout plan to a grinding halt!

FWDance is a simple service to offload all those non-work related email messages and attachments. Instead of forwarding big ( potentially toxic!) attachments, you are just sharing a url. Your email administrator will come and hug you for doing this. Hey bandwidth is not all that cheap either, so you are saving your company some money.

Talking about money (how about few dollars to compensate for oil price pain!). Now with FWDance you can make money. We are allowing users to embed their own ad. This will show up on sidebar place. Currently we only allow Google Adsense (160x600 ad units) but we will be expanding this to include other networks.

Best way to test drive this feature is to create account in MessageDance, go to Affiliate module and enter Adsense publisher id. Once done you are ready to send attachment emails to <username> @ messagedance.com.

In short, FWDance is a simple service which lets you forward your attachment emails, share cool stuff with your friends and make money in the process. We think money making part is an awesome twist to the shared email experience!

Along with FWDance, we are also announcing FatBird Twitter phenomena is amazing, it's hard to define but amazingly simple to use. At MessageDance, we love Twitter community, 140 character constraint based tweets creates good addictive environment. Sometimes profound as well. As recent quake in China showed, Twitter can be put to good use. Microblogging format can be used for breaking news.

Twitter fits in nicely with our vision to push all forms of expression in a completely decentralized fashion. We call it anywhere to anywhere publishing. Today we are announcing MessageDance FatBird, a smart way to share browse and share tweets. FatBird allows users to -

- Browse tweets. FatBird does smart url expansion, that creates rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file. Cool isn't it!

- Take bunch of tweets and blog them to your blog. Yes they come with url expansion.

- Share tweets with your friends. Like someone's tweet and feel like sharing it, now you can do that using MessageDance friend network. Tweet sharing notification will show up in all networks where you have MessageDance widgets installed. Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, Xanga, Wordpress and Blogger are just some of the destinations where your tweet digest can go.

Also you can do other Twitter-y stuff like REPLY, RETWEET and posting new TWEETS.

I hope you like these new features. As always we would love your feedback. If you are not signed up then please headover to FatBird home page and signup using using Twitter credentials.

Sharing recent tweets with blog readers. Would appreciate feedback on tweet blogging (flow versus

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:06:24 GMT

sidebar).

Last 10 tweets from @brij

Retweet: @stevebaker Tim Berners-Lee: "You can look at a blog, but what's impacting the world is the blogosphere." at 06/18/2008 09:47 PM

[PHOTO] One rape every 29 minutes. Shame India! Watching news at Indian restaurant in Cupertino.
http://messagedance.com/message/show/ad5866ab145a91dcc01b523464b54c72 at 06/18/2008 08:22 PM

Child abduction drill, reporting live from the streets of Wellesley, MA http://www.messagedance.com/WPDPhoto at 06/18/2008 07:43 PM

[BLOG POST] Reddit goes open source with CPAL license, probably caused major LOL in Diggnation Reddit is releasin
http://www.onemoreidea.org/reddit-goes-open-source-with-cpal-license-probably-ca... at 06/18/2008 07:33 PM

1and1 customer support emails can put Colbert show to shame. Time to move on. I had to chase down their CS head on LinkedIn at 06/18/2008 05:33 PM

RBS - all chickens come home to roost! [u]
http://messagedance.com/message/show/262d76d580ccf3f0458e7a88e6975832 at 06/18/2008 04:17 PM

[PHOTO] Type in about:robots in FF3 to see this - thanks @danishkhan
http://messagedance.com/message/show/292854f0c22533033b5cebbc490a8f90 at 06/18/2008 05:44 AM

What is common between Daily Kos, MichelleMalkin, BetaNews, HotAir etc? - Bipartisan willingness to AP-ee at 06/18/2008 05:24 AM

for events like this, media units should have dress code as well http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7460005.stm at 06/18/2008 05:21 AM

@danishkhan better luck next year. I can feel your pain #LakersFor2009 at 06/18/2008 04:32 AM

Testing apnews.com story blog to wordpress blog

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:32:00 GMT

Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WW...

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Not everybody is a social media guru. Here is a super easy overview

Social Media (SocialMedia) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:37:19 GMT

Using Social Media for Community Engagement - Andy Carvin Presentation

Social Media (SocialMedia) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:51:18 GMT

Good overview

Reblog from Google Reader and blog from Gmail

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:41:53 GMT

Blogging is time consuming. Folks who have interesting things to say are super busy. It's good to see more innovation in making blog posting more efficient and time saving. I have talked about in the p...

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Transparency Key to Sustain Employee Performance During Recession

Nitin Shukla(Executive Recruitment) (shukla4execjobs) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:31:41 GMT

Transparency Key to Sustain Employee Performance During Recession

by Kellye Whitney

In the midst of the current recession, prices for food, gas and most everything else are steadily rising. Employee performance, engagement and organizational loyalty, on the other hand, are likely to decrease.

Employers would do well to pay close attention to feelings of insecurity and the resulting performance disruptions that can occur during an economic slump, said Manny Avramidis, senior vice president global human resources at the American Management Association.

"Obviously it depends on the industry and the business that you're in, but usually during an economic downturn, most businesses aren't performing up to their potential," he said. "Employees are more concerned about their future employment and their personal well-being than they are about getting the job at hand done, which can often lead to quality and production issues."

To combat these workplace or work-quality issues, Avramidis said employers can be more proactive in creating a transparent work culture, one that promotes and maintains clear and consistent communication throughout the organization. Every employee should know exactly where they stand, as well as where the business stands, and what the organization's strategy will be to get through the economic downturn.

"Once the strategy is shared, you would hope that management and individual employees or contributors are able to engage and be part of the solution, whether it means creating new products or services or different products that perform better during an economic downturn, tightening belts, managing expenses a little more carefully - whatever it takes," Avramidis explained.

Taking the time to create clear, consistent communication that leads to organizational transparency will promote employee trust and loyalty during rough times and sustain these feelings once the economic situation improves.

"The organization has to be careful not to damage relationships with their employees, customers or shareholders, or whoever the interested party is in an economic downturn, because that's very hard to overcome afterwards," Avramidis said.

Once talent managers lay their business cards on the table, Avramidis said it's an ideal time to either retrain or show continued interest in employee development so, once through the economic downturn, the organization is positioned to come out stronger than ever on the other end.

"Even though unemployment is up and the economy is struggling, unemployment is at about 5, 5.1 percent, which is still extremely low," he said. "When it comes to unemployment of qualified talent, it's a lot lower. We can't ignore that, and we certainly don't to come out of this economic down turn in a situation where all of our strong talent is looking to leave because they didn't like the way we treated them during the downtime."

In an effort to facilitate transparency, some organizations even publicize worse-case scenarios, which Avramidis said can help alleviate some of employees' insecurities. These might include worse-case scenarios for the business, as well as potential employee separation - what they would be entitled to from a severance, outplacement and training standpoint.

"Good talent is still very hard to come by," he said. "Baby boomers are still going to be retiring in larger numbers than what they're doing today and the very near future. We'll still have the same talent shortage during this economic downturn as we will after it."

[About the Author: Kellye Whitney is managing editor for Talent Management magazine.]

It's the blog, stupid!

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:52:40 GMT

The title is apropos for the election season, but I'm going to propose an idea here and I hope to get some feedback. Lots of people are talking about the disconnect with comments and conversations happening on Twitter, FriendFeed, and their blog. For example, you make a blog post and (with MessageDance automatically) it goes to Twitter (and thus to FriendFeed), people can comment about it on your blog, Twitter, and FriendFeed (and on MessageDance.com). Big-time fracturing of comments. Since you started with your blog, shouldn't you be able to stay on your blog and see all of the comments come back to your blog? There should be no reason why you have to monitor everything to see what people think about what you said -- just have it fed back into your blog.

Your blog is the center of your universe

When you post your blog entry, wouldn't it be right to have it say on Twitter that it came "from {your blog name}"? Not from Twirl, the web, or MessageDance -- it is actually you and your blog that created the content -- you should get the credit! When someone comments on FriendFeed, shouldn't that go back to your blog as a comment, regardless if it was your original post or on a Google Reader reblog by someone else? Same is true for a Twitter reply. Heck, why not make tweets, @ replies, and FriendFeed posts directly from your blog for that matter.

To steal a late 90's term, your blog should be your portal. You start with it everyday and you don't need to leave it to keep up with your friends and your conversations. Your blog is all about you. Keep it all together.