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Re: David Carradine’s Official Cause of Death was Asphyxiation

AllisonR — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:26:21 -0000

I am assuming your spelling of Bangkok was your little joke? :)

Re: If Your Shy, Cherish Privacy, Support Manchester United or Heaven Forbid own a PC - is the Thirty Day Challenge For You? #30dc

AllisonR — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:42:38 -0000

A leader is someone that clears the path to allow the success of others. That is why I call a leader a

Successorizer

A leader values the success of others more than they value their own. They find the motivation point of the individual and they press that button often and hard (but the person might not even recognise that is happening). The leader listens with a sympathetic ear but guides with a strong hand in the middle of your back.

Re: Robert Scoble leaves Fast Company

AllisonR — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:33:48 -0000

Let's see how far the influence gets Scoble . An interesting exercise in the true value of social media is how you can leverage it to what YOU want to do.

*sits back and observes*

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:42:45 -0000

Can't believe I missed that one :)

John "Wright"... I didn't miss that...

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:37:06 -0000

*cries* It's been a long week.
I did like the guy's hustle , but as you don't see the need for it, it's not going to fly...

Re: My Awful Spelling…

AllisonR — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:14:08 -0000

Ed I know you are a crap speller, I don't mind that. I do wonder, though, why you are allergic to a spell checker. It doesn't get in the way of creativity. It's like the garbos after a big party, you have all the fun and it helps clean up...5 minutes tops and you just need to click on words, you don't even need to remember that in some cases, auto-correct will do it for you.

Sure it makes you stand out, but I think you have more than poor spelling to offer us. Your message can be lost when people's minds short circuit in protest at the assault on the English language, and crawl off to whimper at the back of the skull.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk Using Adwrods Ads to Buy Twitter Followers?

AllisonR — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:16:26 -0000

Erm did you actually follow the link...seen plenty of adwords that say one thing and go elsewhere

Re: It’s Not You It’s Me - My Goodbye To Facebook Friends

AllisonR — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:44:12 -0000

A month ago I manually removed every "friend" from my account that I could not say that I had met in real life. or that I plan to meet. This totaled many hundreds and took about an hour of clicking confirmations that I really did want to unfriend this person. I didn't say anything to anyone at the time, I just dropped them.

Guess what?

Not one person said anything....great "friends" hey?

Since then an amazing thing happened, a "real" old schoolfriend friended me, which has led to me finding some pictures of 15 year old me that I have either never seen before, or had forgotten entirely. Amazing stuff. Also a reminder about a pash at a school dance (but that is a story for another day). The pleasure I get from using Facebook the way it was intended, far outweighs any business benefit I was receiving the other way.

Enjoy the feeling Ed when every bit of information you see on your wall is something you really WANT to see!

Re: Happy New Year Everyone

AllisonR — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:42:27 -0000

Love the self portrait!

And Happy New Year to you and the family. 2009 is going to be a monster of a year

Re: Making a joke of Social Media

AllisonR — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:24:07 -0000

I don't think Social media is he joke.... it is a pretty cool tool that gets all us information junkies off.

I do think those that believe they are doing the world a favour by claiming authority via numbers (like Scoble) are the joke.

The right information from one individual to another will eclipse anything scatter-gunned by so-called "thought leaders".

Re: Jesus sighted in a coffee cup [exclusive]

AllisonR — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:15:56 -0000

If you scroll the picture up and down, the metal table decorations appear to move... it's a miracle

Praise Latte!

Re: Market Understanding - Market Leading

AllisonR — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:45:25 -0000

Pfft you always "knew" it *wink*

Re: More News On McDonalds Free WiFi

AllisonR — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:34:48 -0000

Yep saw this on the drive through as we rolled through this afternoon at Castle Hill...as a side effect the "free" wireless that Telstra iPhone users were provided by McDonalds is no longer exclusive (and so can be gobbled up by any old users), and the Starbucks have gone, which kind of makes the "free" wifi not really a big selling point any more.

Re: Manic Depresion And Market Madness

AllisonR — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:17:49 -0000

:D Wonder if you read my FF link from last night that also was along the same lines; but way outside of the Marketing arena. http://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=141 . A great story.

(Move + learn) + (be still + think) = a good balance in my books

Re: How to Blog - Merlin Mann

AllisonR — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:25 -0000

woah one of those weird coincidences LOVE Merlin (bring back hotdogsladies!)... I have been reading his slide thing almost daily since he posted it. It so talks to me. I want to read MORE people who write like this... and the ones that I do read, I don't want them to sell out

...and I like that you only have to try not to be a dick...everyone has their "inner dick" (even though Team America will have you believe you can be something else)

Working everyday to GET BETTER

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

AllisonR — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:54:58 -0000

Latest one from the download section... could the template I am using interfere with it? (using revolution media pro)

Re: Mission Accomplished!

AllisonR — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:02:58 -0000

Telstra had lovely apples in the TLife shops as well as not bad coffee as well. I was so glad I was in the top 20 of the Sydney queue. It was bloody freezing and getting in out of the wind was probably as satisfying as getting my name confirmed for a 16 gig!

Re: Social media etiquittes for event planners

AllisonR — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:17:19 -0000

My what BIG hands you have.

Facebook seems to be positively rife with that sort of behaviour. Boot em if they are rude I say!

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

AllisonR — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:12:17 -0000

I would really love to get this plugin going but I cannot seem to make it work. Are there any suggestions about why this may not be working ?

I posted the loop below, is that constructed correctly?
I can see the tabs in the edit section of each post and manually put the post title in.
The debugger shows it is pulling information from friendfeed (see below) but nothing is getting updated in the comments section (hence my loop question)
[8] => stdClass Object
(
[updated] => 1215421659
[service] => stdClass Object
(
[profileUrl] => http://allisonreynolds.com/blog
[iconUrl] => http://friendfeed.com/static/images/icons/blog....
[id] => blog
[name] => Blog
)

[title] => Just When It All Seems Too Much
[media] => Array
(
)

[comments] => Array
(
)

[link] => http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeek...
[likes] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[date] => 1215424950
[user] => stdClass Object
(
[profileUrl] => http://friendfeed.com/thisguydoug
[nickname] => thisguydoug
[id] => 5add4fe8-36a2-11dd-bbee-003048343a40
[name] => Doug Smith
)

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

AllisonR — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:33:45 -0000

Ok fixed the api issue (case sensitive bah!!) . Still don't think I have things right though

page.php loop now looks like

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

<?php the_content(__('[Read more]'));?>

<?php wp_ffcomments(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

But no comments seem to be filling the comment boxes (I have that set as the default)... have I got it in the right place? Ideas?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

AllisonR — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:44:14 -0000

I am trying to install but am getting

Error: Unable to retrieve content from FriendFeed. The API may be down or there may be connectivity problems

Is anyone having issues with the FF api...?

Re: We all laugh at the Gmail team behind their backs

AllisonR — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:22:47 -0000

NSW rocks...has the most beautiful city in the world ..Sydney

AND our schools teach geography to their students...

Re: I’ve been sprung - It’s true - I’m running for President.

AllisonR — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:42:28 -0000

Very very clever tool....I'll be watching on the Immediate Edge to see if Dan gives us a tutorial on how to create similar because we absolutely positively could kick this one to the moon

Re: Confirmed: Apple Resellers To Stock 3G iPhone In Australia

AllisonR — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:03:15 -0000

*excited* weeee

Re: Stuff Dads Do On A Saturday Afternoon…

AllisonR — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:36:39 -0000

Slightly concerned that is a bath ducky...can't figure out how you would breath using it...