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Great Expectations Hawaiian Style

May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I was not sure what to expect when I got off the plane.  Only that is was an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  Well all that and more hit me as I went outside to walk a short distance for my bags.  84 degrees and BEAUTIFUL.  A short ride to the Royal Hawaiian hotel and I was greeted by a friendly staff wiuth a lei and a shot of punch and ice cold towel.  My first question of course was "Wifi?".  Free here in the lobby was their response.  I wanted to drop everything and record the experience but headed back to my room for a quick check on the Nuggets and Lakers score.  Hey, I am a homer through ad through and I have to get the score since I’ll be joining some people tonight from Laker land. 

I am going to check the livestream situation soon and hopefully get everyone up and running on that.  In any event, I will get the flip cam at the ready and plenty of pics.  I already took a few from my limo ride (snicker…yeah I know).  My latest addiction however is slowly taking hold.  My new best friends Neenz Faleafine and Melanie Kosaka (or new dealers perhaps) from here locally have me hooked on a new type of drug…I call it Cracadamia nuts.

My expectations so far?…hold on while I eat another handful.

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A Social Media Trip To Hawaii

May 13, 2009 By 7 Comments

The one where I get you to decide what I will do in Hawaii and then hopefully you too can go along…virtually.

I am hoping to live stream the events on my site at Social Mediasphere TV! I will record as much as possible the events that unfold. You choose where and what I go do it and bring you the experience through the live blog account, the recordings and Twitter stream!

The first island is up. KAUA’I
Currently scheduled to arrive Thursday morning, May 28; depart Saturday morning, May 30.

Mountain Tubing Adventure
Kaua‘i Backcountry Zipline Adventure Tour
Kaua‘i Plantation Railway
Kipu Falls Zipline Trek
K?loa Heritage Trail
L?wa‘i International Center
Steelgrass Farm – Chocolate Farm Tour
Waimea Canyon

If you know of something fun to do on this island that you don’t see here, suggest it in the comments and I will make it a vote that counts! My only suggestion is make it lawful. My wife’s suggestion, make it safe enough I won’t get killed. (I wont tell if you don’t tell.)

Next Up we go to the island of MAUI
Currently scheduled to arrive Saturday morning, May 30; depart Monday morning, June 1.

Hawai‘i Ocean Rafting
Hula Girl Pacific Rim Dinner Cruise
Kahoma Ranch Tours
Lahaina K?‘anapali Railroad – Sugar Cane Train
Maui Cave Adventures
Maui Horseback Tours
Nightly Hula Show at K?‘anapali Beach Hotel
Proflyght Paragliding
Tour of the Stars
Volcano Maui Air Tours

Next up we have HAWAI’I ISLAND
Currently scheduled to arrive Monday morning, June 1; depart Tuesday evening, June 2.

Dolphin Quest
Firenesia
Hawai‘i Pack and Paddle
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hilo Pana‘ewa Rainforest Zoo and Gardens
K?lauea
Kona Coffee Tour
Lava Tube Cave Adventure: K?lauea Caverns of Fire
Native Guide Hawai‘i
Stargazing:
*Arnotts Lodge
*Bigti
*Hawai‘i Forest & Trail
*Mauna Kea Summit Adventures

Windward Coast and Waterfalls Tour

Next up we have the Island of O’AHU
Currently scheduled to arrive Tuesday evening, June 2; depart Weds/Thurs evening, June 3/4.

Battleship Missouri Memorial 10th Anniversary Celebration
Bike Hawai‘i
The Contemporary Museum
Dunebuggy Adventures
Ghost Tours of Old Honolulu
Hans Hedemann Surf School
Hawai‘i’s Plantation Village
Honolulu Soaring
North Shore
North Shore Surf Girls Surf School
O‘ahu Ghost Tours
Paddle Core Fitness
Waimea Valley Park
Wildside Specialty Tours

That is the four islands that we are visiting. I will have another post up about what I’ll be doing and when and where and how. I want to have you experience with me this social media trip! ALOHA!

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A Test For Monetizing Your Blog With Qumana

April 16, 2009 By 1 Comment

As a social media consultant, I don’t actually rely on ad revenue from my blog, i.e. Google Adsense or the like to pay my bills.  If I did, I would have gone back to working in the law as I was before.  I am helping out the folks at Qumana, the blog editor I am testing, with a revival of an old feature.  I used to be back in the day when I was first introduced into Qumana that we had ads that were served using the blog editor and that no longer became viable. For a little bit I am going to feature some ads here in the posts, not because I want to make the big dollars and show you my six figure check the likes of a Darren Rowse at Problogger.net or like Shoemoney.  I am doing it to help out a company that will help out bloggers.  We are always here to help bloggers become better bloggers.  That in turn helps companies that want to hire a blogger or bloggers that go on to get real jobs as bloggers.  I will let you know more as they are ready to launch these things again and will let you know my review of their service and offering.

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Social Media and the Child of Television

April 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I have always been a child of television.  I was born at the height of when television broke on to the scene as the next big thing, and I was doused with it’s essence from day one.  To that end I have some things that are a part of my DNA I believe that makes me drawn to it like a moth to flame.  That lure is now spilling over to my job here at One By One Media.  I have taken One By One Media to the television.  In my own mind anyway.  I am feeling like Johnny Carson these days doing his thing.

I started Social Mediasphere TV as more of an experiment than anything.  I was already doing the Blog Talk Radio show for Social Mediasphere and then the show sort of transmogrified into what it is now.  I can speak into a camera much easier than I can actually write.  I can speak and it does not set off the spelling alarm.  I can look into the camera and know that I am talking to people. I don’t get that same feeling with the blog. It could just be that I am a child of television and it helps my ADD and other problems associated with growing up with Gilligan’s Island.   I am not certain it will continue on its current path but for now stay tuned.

Tags: Social Mediasphere TV, Jim Turner

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New Media Marketing? Is it taking a backseat?

April 9, 2009 By 1 Comment

Just reading over at Profy and Svetlana Gladkova asking the question, "Twitter is a Popular Marketing Tool?".  The analysis is interesting on Svetlana’s piece and I think you should read it.  The thing that caught my eye was less about the written words and more about the graphic she had in the post.

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The thing that made me note this graph was the far right three forms of online tools being used, blogs, podcasts and Twitter.  I preach of course that these are the "new media" and that companies should be embracing them, but it is nowhere near the use of direct mail.  I was amazed at the lopsided view of this. Twitter is the new media darling and blogs are making somewhat of a comeback since breaking on the scene at the beginning of the century.  I am curious how the study was conducted and as I understand it it was conducted by WebTrends.  The study appears to address only the European companies but I think that the results can be indicative of what is happening here as well.  As the economy keeps dipping and we go back to the "what works" idea of marketing, I see the testing of social media to be take a backseat to the more measurable results of the past.

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Twoogle?

April 2, 2009 By 3 Comments

twoogleI am trying to wrap my had around the idea that Google may possibly be the next owner of our beloved golden child in the world of social media, Twitter.  Are we ready yet to turn the keys to the Twitter kingdom over to the folks at Google?  I have been a serious watchdog lately it seems talking about Twitter ethics and the gaming of Twitter and the eroding of all things pure about the application.

How about if we turn it over to Google and make it a part of that empire?  I know Techcrunch talked about it in terms of Twitter search and that it is becoming the real time search engine.  It makes sense actually and since they turned down the money offered by Facebook due to valuation issues and Facebook’s stock, I think it could be said Google has the bank account for it.  Google and the leadership at Twitter have had dealings in the past with Blogger so in fact there may already be that relationship.  We will see how this unfolds.  I am hoping to get some further analysis from some of the people in our industry to help me grasp the idea but for now I will just try to fathom a life of Twoogle.

Update:  You can read more about it at Techrunch and the rest of the folks on Techememe.

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Social Mediasphere TV Launched

April 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

smtv-logo1-300x177I have recently launched Social Mediasphere TV and added it to my list of blogs including this one and including Bloggers For Hire in the long list of blogs I contribute to and provide.  Social Mediasphere TV is an extension of the radio I was doing on Blog Talk Radio.  You can still go over and take a look at my archives at that location and I may still continue my on location live radio using that service as it seems to be a very simple solution to the technical issues related to live radio.

I will be doing my show continuing here forward on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. PST and 8:00 p.m. EST.  We will be discussing all things Social Media and as always we will have special guests, commentary and even you as listener can call in and ask questions make your own comments or just be a guest yourself.  I am still working through all of the issues with using the applications of the trade, but I have been given some good advice and help from many friends that are cheering me on to make this new project a success.  See you all on Tuesdays!

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Barcamp Miami A Hit No Matter What was Thrown At Me

February 22, 2009 By 1 Comment

Miami Vice, CSI Miami, these are the things that I refer to when someone talks about the location.  I look back to what I have seen on television. Today as I sat on the front steps of a location in Coconut Grove, Florida, (I was told I couldn’t call it Maimi) I had visions of those times looking at blue water, people in shorts and beautiful weather.

I was trying to live stream a radio show using blog talk radio while attending barcamp.  If the show itself was archived and turned into an mp3, you might be able to listen on the sidebar.  If not who can tell.  I had a great time down here at Barcamp Miami and Wordcamp Miami.  The wifi and the Internet? It did not have such a great time. This is becming all to familiar a complain I hear in the world of tech conferences. You have hundreds of Internet users all converging on a single space and they have no way to handle the crowd.  I am not going to beat that dead horse.  Suffice it to say many curves were thrown at the organizers, yet they seemed to still make it a hit.

I do want to talk about how great the weather was, how wonderful the attendance was and how great I was at speaking.  Okay, the last part is not necessarily true but I keep getting better at talking what I love to say the least.  The weather and the company was great. 

You get that many people in a room that all love blogging chances are the person at the front talking about blogging is going to be cheered.  This was the case with all the sessions i saw.  Everyone loved what was discussed.  So much information and so little time were some fo the commentsI heard, and others still said they too would love to give information they had learned to the group.  This is the perfect excample of why barcamps are so well received by attendees.

Sitting on the front of the location on the sidewalk talking into the microphone was very fun and not something I had done before.  I hope to get a chance to do the same tomorrow.  I am going to post some of the pictures of where I was sitting and of course it will not give the full expereince of sitting on the porch on a sunny Sunday afternoon watching the day go by and taling about what I love, but imagine it and you can hear the birds and feel the sun on your face.

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One By One Media Heading South For The Winter

February 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Perhaps that is not as much of a migration as it is a business trip for me.  I am headed to Miami tomorrow to speak at Wordcamp Miami and attend BarCamp Miami and Future of Web Apps ’09.

I will be speaking at Wordcamp Miami as I did in Las Vegas on "Blogging for A Living", it is a presentation that I have given a number of times and therefore I wont have to prepare more than my usual, but more importantly, and perhaps more fun I will be doing a live radio show from BarCamp Miami courtesy of my client i-Lighter. 

You can follow along and be a part of things as well.  My show Social Mediasphere via Blog Talk Radio will have the live coverage of the event.  This is my first try at doing a live radio show, although I have been on Blog Talk Radio live while I was at Blog World Expo last year.

I’ll be interviewing attendees, speakers and whoever might happen by the table.  I have been sent some podcasting equipment and I will be hopefully not embarrassing myself with my non-technical skills.  You can join in on the fun.  I want to have as many people participate as possible.

After the fun on Sunday at Barcamp Miami, I’ll be attending the fun at FOWA ’09 or the Future of Web Apps.  This event has some real dynamite personalities that are speaking at the event and hopefully I will get a few of them to stop by and be a part of the live radio show as well.  This show will be done on Blog World Expo Radio via the Blog Talk application as well so I would really enjoy it if you participated.  I will be live blogging the event as I can via the Blog World Expo Blog so stay tuned.

Tags: Barcamp Miami, Wordcamp Miami, FOWA ’09, Future of Web Apps, i-Lighter, , , , Social Mediasphere, Blog World Expo Radio

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Project 100 and Connect! Marketing in the Social Media Era

February 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

I have contributed to a really cool project that is being led to help the Susan G. Komen Foundation called the Project 100.  This is a book that is being written by 100 great social media minds and people that understand social media marketing.  The name of the book is going to be: Connect!  Marketing in the Social Media Era

I am embedding a Slideshare presentation as a teaser as what is to come.  I wanted to thank Jeff Caswell for the opportuynity for helping a great cause. You can get more information on the book and what is being done at The Project 100 site.

The Project 100…Countdown to Connect!

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