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Re: listbrowser.org: aaroncrews's "pauto" list

crewez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:25:46 -0000

This is is for Process Automation professionals that I follow. Right now I can't delete people from lists so it's not perfect, but the concept is to limit it to active, "real" twitter users - that is, no straight RSS feeds, no vendor accounts, just people.

Re: Dewberry Farm

crewez — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:27 -0000

Thanks for stopping by, Larry! We had a great time and will definitely be back.

Re: Daddy's Birthday and First Day of School

crewez — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:27:17 -0000

You did post a few pics: http://www.erinandaaron.com/2009/09/school-for-.... Still, the video is new and my birthday pics are new.

Re: Owen and Mason's Pirate Party Featured!

crewez — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:39:02 -0000

Nicole,
Thanks for the complement! We actually made the letters in Photoshop and
then printed out the letters and cut out the circles and everything
ourselves. If you're interested in buying one, I would check out Jess at
Polkadots and Pirates. She has an Etsy shop where you can buy similar
banners. I bet you could get a custom one made to match your theme, too.

Re: Fishing for REAL this time

crewez — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:00:26 -0000

John -
I got it working. I re-downloaded and ran the opml editor and let it update. I clicked Misc -> Tool catalog and nothing happened. Then I had to manually open http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/catalog in my browser to get to the tool catalog. I was able to install river2 from there. I can read feeds at http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/index now. Hope that helps.

Re: Fishing for REAL this time

crewez — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:20:04 -0000

I haven't gotten past it. Hopefully an update is coming soon, otherwise there are no viable rssCloud readers right now.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

crewez — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:17:05 -0000

In the OMPL editor, Tool catalog doesn't do anything. I know it reads a "Fat Page" from http://static.opml.org/opmlEditor/tools.fttb, but looking at the source there I see a path to Dave's hard drive, which I'm guessing is not correct. Advice?

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

crewez — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:36:48 -0000

I added the deleted feeds back and it resolved itself, so it looks like your delete code is not totally clean yet.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

crewez — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:34:26 -0000

Deleting the default Guardian feeds from the list seems to have broken it. Now upon going to http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/ I get:

500 Server Error

Can't find a sub-table named "http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/rss".

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

crewez — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:59:01 -0000

Glad you liked the idea! We had a hard time figuring out how to do those lists, too, so I just drew the items on a sheet of paper and scanned them in. Erin colored them in photoshop and we put them on a pirate map backdrop that I found on DeviantArt and printed them at home.

Re: An Appeal In Opposition To Personal Branding

crewez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:12:42 -0000

Chris, my guess would be that Franklin or Jefferson would have introduced themselves in a different way depending on the day.

When it comes to how we work in an organization, though, I think that strategy definitely is iconoclastic.

Re: An Appeal In Opposition To Personal Branding

crewez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:11 -0000

I like this approach.

Your introduction and your "brand" is what's in your focus *right now*. When you introduce yourself, distill it to the reason why you're there.

Your reputation is what those you've influenced have seen - a meta-brand, essentially.

Re: An Appeal In Opposition To Personal Branding

crewez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:55:23 -0000

Rosa I agree with you here. As I think about it, personal branding and online voice can be more about creating the right reputation and building trust than about narrow expertise. Maybe it's just two different valid strategies.

I think that "branding" as it pertains to reputation is a legitimate exercise, and that's why I stop short of saying that Authentic Voice is a desired ideal. Of course if you allow yourself to follow the full breadth of your passions you'll may just end up more authentic and with a stronger reputation than if you're out there with one specific purpose.

I think a lot of people end up surprised at how the peripheral interests can move into focus and change your path, and also how they can help create the ties that may serve us well in the future.

Re: An Appeal In Opposition To Personal Branding

crewez — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:44:30 -0000

Chris - great piece and I totally get it as someone who has a very diverse set of interests myself. I think that as everyone gets online and the breadth of everyone's lives becomes more apparent that the personal brand ideal of being a focused expert will start to fade away in favor of an agile skill set and a heavy influence in a broad social graph.

With the current flood of information, the desired quality isn't going to be who has the information in their head, but rather who can retrieve, dissect, distill, and apply the information best. Companies will seek creative minds, and in my opinion those with more diverse experiences and interests will more quickly see analogs between fields and come up with better solutions.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

crewez — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:50:43 -0000

Welcome to everyone who's coming over from Creative Parties and Showers! Thanks for the kind comments. We had a lot of fun making this stuff and the kids had a ton of fun at the party.

Re: My best gift EVER

crewez — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:47:42 -0000

Kimberly - thanks for the comment! We were really happy with how these turned out, too. We'll have to post a how-to some time.

Re: Father's Day

crewez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:08:01 -0000

Margo -
Thanks for the support! We love getting comments like yours and it encourages us to keep this thing up. It was great seeing all you guys as well over the weekend. We'll post pictures from Bee's party soon.

Re: The Fallacy Of The “Don’t Be Stupid” Policy

crewez — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:43:59 -0000

I guess I can't edit my tailing into telling above (ah well, my Texan accent showing through).

I think that you have a good point about learning from peers (hey, we're all learning here and we all make mistakes). I just think that formally charging people with that responsibility breeds a certain attitude that may not even exist otherwise.

Dealing with your employees' new found ability to broadcast is a tricky thing. I'm sure there are plenty of policy breaches that happen in face to face casual conversations all the time (on purpose and on accident). Those conversations are just lucky enough not to be cached by Google and to threaten your employer and your career.

Re: The Fallacy Of The “Don’t Be Stupid” Policy

crewez — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:07:00 -0000

Isn't social media monitoring (a more accurate word for this case is "policing") sort of like the "time cops" of old, where you're scared to take a long lunch or where you're worried about your job if you're running late in the morning? And peer policing is usually just infighting and tattle-tailing, something that we were expected to outgrow long ago.

I think every company should monitor their brands, but in my opinion that role falls outside the scope of the common social media policy. If it is implemented (and I'm not sure exactly whose job it would be) and those guys notice some noise or issues coming from the organization within social media channels or if a complaint arises through other means then I think it's fair to deal with the employee in a manner pursuant with any other company policy breach, provided there are in fact existing social media policies.

If there are not, well... you warned them.

Re: The Fallacy Of The “Don’t Be Stupid” Policy

crewez — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:02:02 -0000

I've always thought IBM did a pretty good job of having a "don't be stupid" policy but with a sufficient definition of stupidity. (http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html) but it does fall short in one area that you highlight: purpose. Of course you don't want to forget your day job. But is that really good enough? Probably not according to most managers' expectations.

Re: Owen and Mason's 2nd Birthday - - A Pirate Party

crewez — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:23:59 -0000

Jess - thanks for the inspiration! And thanks for the suggestion - we may just do that.

Re: Funny Little Videos!

crewez — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:05:21 -0000

Haha... I think we ordered them a copy of that DVD for them to open tomorrow on their actual birthday.

Re: A Pirate Says "Aaargh!"

crewez — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:47:07 -0000

Ignore the curtains in the background - they were pulled off the ground to get them off the floor. Erin's working on hemming them.

Re: Are They Twins??

crewez — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:04:55 -0000

We're super lucky to have such amazing kids but you would be surprised how many times a day we get stopped.

Re: 30 things I've learned as a mom of twins...

crewez — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:09:19 -0000

Rob,
It's definitely a special thing to be the parent of twins. We have a great time with ours. BTW, nice pictures over on your blog!