In this episode Bill and Nathan discuss Twitter use and specifically five kinds of people you don’t want to be on Twitter. This post is based on a post Bill wrote in April.
Name: Awesomists Location: You wish you were here. Bio: My life is awesome. What are you doing? Sipping a skinny mocha latte and watching whales from my celebrity friend’s yacht.
Name: Unoriginals Location: Where you were yesterday. Bio: My tweets are your tweets. I don’t have anything interesting to say myself. What are you doing? RT the latest thing to come across my feed reader in the last five minutes.
Name: Hypsters Location: Who cares. You just need to buy what I’m selling. Bio: Buy my stuff. Hire me. Make six figures in 12 hours. I’m going to make you famous. What are you doing? The same thing I tweeted an hour ago…links to my blog about my secrets to business success.
Name: Philosophacators Location: I’m too busy thinking to notice where I am. Bio: I’m pretty smart…and deep…and sensitive…and don’t forget smart too. What are you doing? Never milk a cow with only one udder.
Name: Minutiaists Location: Latitude and longitude of my exact location at this very moment. Bio: My day, all day, everyday, 140 characters at a time. What are you doing? Woke up at 6:42. Did number 1. Got a shower. Water took longer to warm up than usual. Shampoo, no conditioner. Same towel as yesterday.
In this episode, Bill shares about his experience of some malicious code that got on his website which then caused Google to flag the site as an “attack site” to anyone who visited. From there, his Twitter account picked up the Google notice that the site was flagged and promptly suspended his Twitter account because the site was referenced in his Twitter profile. At first he thought it was a password hack on Twitter. Turns out the malicious code that crept into the blog via a Wordpress plugin was the issue. In the end the biggest lesson learned is that Google has a whole lot more influence than any of us imagine.
In this episode Nathan and Bill discuss the launch of the new MLB.com website which includes a fee-based online video product. Nathan expresses the concerns and regularly noted feedback about MLB.com’s video platform being a marginal product and then the fact that MLB.com pulled their blog off the website so they wouldn’t have to talk to their customers.
After discussing the problem, Bill and Nathan discuss ways MLB.com can save their reputation and help the future of their video service.
In this episode, Bill and Nathan interviewed Tom Cheredar about social news sites, specifically Digg and Reddit. Tom has great insight and experience with Digg, Reddit, and other social news sites as both a freelance reporter and active blogger. Tom blogs at at TomCheredar.com.
In the interview Tom gives a little history on social news and some new social news sites that are more specific like Tipd.com. Tom also mentioned the 10 rules of social media post by Brian Wallace.
In this episode Bill gives an overview of the session he led at Podcamp Nashville recently. His session was called “How to Use A Chainsaw Without Cutting Off Your Leg”.
The gist of this conversation was that it is not enough to understand the new social media tools (the chainsaws) but you must also know the right ways to use them or it won’t work (hence the cutting off of limbs…if only metaphorically speaking).
In this episode, Bill and Nathan discuss the recent decision by Hulu to ban their videos from being used by Boxee. The Boxee team discussed it on their blog. The Hulu team discussed it on their blog. Bill and Nathan had opposing views on this particular topic and in time we’ll see who was right.
The bottom line is that social media requires that you are authentic and genuine. If it feels anything less than that, it probably is…and you’ll probably get called out on it as well.
In this episode, Bill and Nathan talk about one of the most important things in social media: transparency. For all the talk and excitement over new tools and technology, one of the greatest changes brought about by social media is an expectation of transparency. Some companies that have really embraced this are DreamHost and Twitter. Other companies, like Apple, haven’t embraced transparency at all and have had a series of issues where this has hurt them like the recent admission of Steve Jobs’ health problems.
One of the biggest things to remember for implementing social media well is to adopt the right mindset. There is an old mindset and a new mindset. Choose the right one.
At the end of the episode, be sure to check out the information about FastPitch, an opportunity for people to pitch their business ideas and get those ideas funded. The FastPitch events will be held during February and March, 2009.
