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

Social Media (SocialMedia) — 2008-06-06T23:37:19Z

It's the blog, stupid!

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — 2008-05-23T00:52:40Z

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.

MessageDance - iPhone photo to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — 2008-05-13T23:53:23Z

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MessageDance - Express Yourself across your Social Networks

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — 2008-05-13T23:37:58Z

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Publishing tools for super-busy bloggers suck!

Brij Singh (brijsingh) — 2008-05-02T12:34:32Z

It's a common complaint that if blogging was easier to do there will be more people doing it. Blog setup, blog posting, formatting, proof reading and post-post comment supervision, list of stuff to manage goes on and on. All that adds up to big drain on time. Its a hassle because it takes time. If we cut down time then we invite more people to do blogging. One of my frustration is to see people who should be blogging not doing it because its still a hassle for them. These are people with great ideas and great projects. Question is what should we do to make these...

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MessageDance - Jailbreak Your Blog

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — 2008-05-01T15:25:24Z

Another installment of a "how-to" video from MessageDance. See how to break away from your blog platform and blog from virtually anywhere. BTW, it's pretty darn easy making YouTube videos using Snapz and iMovie. Only wish the video quality was better on YouTube.

MessageDance - Jailbreak Your Blog

Ask Sam (AskSam) — 2008-05-01T15:19:13Z

Another installment of a high quality educational video! Learn how easy it is to create blog entries to your WordPress and Blogger blog with Google Reader, iPhone, YouTube, Digg, Facebook, your favorite email client, and more using MessageDance!

Email for the rest of us

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — 2008-04-29T01:41:52Z

No matter how hard we try, we can't seem to shake off email. While it basically hasn't changed much in 15 years, it serves its promise of delivering data very effectively. It certainly has its issues with spam, but if email is used in the context of an integration layer for the Internet, its future has never been brighter.

Brad Feld shouts "I Love Email":

Every now and then the "Email is dead" meme makes the rounds and lights up TechMeme. The right answer isn't that "email is dead"; it's that new and exciting stuff is happening around the use of "messaging" and it's time for some new innovation.

His partner Chris Wand of Foundry Group goes further:

In a time when many folks view Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as the new darlings of the Internet, we still believe that email has been and will long continue to be one of the Internet's few enduring killer apps.

The keyword that Chris uses there is "Internet". Email is an Internet app. Its largest value isn't on the desktop; it's the ability to transport data.

TripIt has it right with using email as the input mechanism for user data into their system with a transformed output delivered back to the user. Their presentation at Web 2.0 Expo is right on the mark.

At MessageDance, we use email as the engine for our users to share content from their social sites to wherever they choose it to go. They each have a powerful email address ("you"@messagedance.com) they can use to share conversations, videos, and blog posts from sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Digg. Their sharing doesn't have to start from an email client, but when it does, it can be very powerful, as this blog entry itself was fully written and posted from my Gmail account, including image placements, tagging, and category assignment. It also went to my Twitter account automatically.

It's great to see our private beta users really spanning the spectrum in the email clients they use and the integrated services they are sharing from. Here are samples I've pulled from the shameless snippets we add to the end of their blog posts created with MessageDance.

We're just getting warmed up, so stay tuned for more innovations in the way you will use email in the future.

An argument for the opposite of Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — 2008-04-22T23:40:41Z

Don't get me wrong, there is absolute value in knowing what my friends, colleagues, and people-I-pine-to-be-like are talking about. But not everyone who is in my circle uses an aggregator to follow me. I have friends who see my Twitter tweets. Some people see my updates on Facebook. I'd like to think people see my stuff on MySpace, but I doubt it (except maybe Lola and Cheyenne). I also have this blog, which is how my mother keeps up with me when I don't call and return emails. Separately updating each social site, morphing the content to fit each format, is painful, tedious, and unlikely.

Inward-Out

Publishing my rich content and messages to all (or just some) of my social destinations in a single post is the opposite of the aggregators. They are Outward-In (not that there is anything wrong with that). MessageDance is Inward-Out.

The Middleware of the Internet

The key to this sexy processing comes from an unsexy tool -- email. Email is still the killer-app. It is the most ubiquitous, under-utilized, and abused tool in everyone's toolbox. When most people think of email, they think of spam. The beauty of using email in the context of MessageDance is that an email inbox is never the final destination of a message or content that has been shared. MessageDance uses the really good part of email which is its ability to transport data in the simplest of fashions. Along its journey, MessageDance transforms the format of the content for its final destination.

Portable and Powerful Email Address

Now there is great power in just an email address. You don't need to start your sharing from an email client. Start in Facebook and send your extra-facebook messages, blog posts, tweets from the native Facebook messaging app. Stay on YouTube.com and share a video to Twitter by just using your MessageDance email handle. Hell, blog from Amazon.com if you must. Besides signing-up and adding a few settings, you never really need to use MessageDance.com or your email client -- and still reap powerful Anywhere to Anywhere sharing.

MessageDance - Express Yourself across your Social Networks

Geoff Wolfe (rooffire) — 2008-03-27T11:24:39Z

Here's an introductory video on how to use MessageDance. It explains the simple way you can send messages and share rich content with your friends.

See the other videos on my blog for more advanced features like directly sharing a YouTube video to Twitter and sending iPhone photos into your Facebook Photos section.