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Re: 4 Benefits of Blogging for Students - A yellowhat keeps my brain warm :)

andrewkumar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:31:48 -0000

Who is the blog stalker now...?

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Re: 4 Benefits of Blogging for Students - A yellowhat keeps my brain warm :)

andrewkumar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:27:59 -0000

Who is the blog stalker now...?

Re: Marketing Accountability: Are You Trying to Measure Abstract Objectives?

techwinter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:59:10 -0000

I think one of the big problems is marketers are brought in after everything else is done and biz dev says 'here you go, now make people love it'. This weakens a marketers understanding of said product and also devalues their knowledge of that organisations customers.

Second point and probably more relevant to your comment Lewis and that is Marketers don't set goals because their peers don't perceive goals the same way as we (marketers) do.

For example if I say to my production manager I need 12% more productivity out of his plants he can say yes it will be done, no it can't or yes but here is how much. Its a goal with a highly likelihood of a getting a predictable outcome.

Now with marketing you can say I want to increase customer purchase cycle by 10% (as Jacob points out) but I can't promise that this goal is very likely to occur like the production manager can. This means when i don't succeed and we as marketers do fail often, then our neck is on the line. No one has a clue that the failure was probable.

Cheers
@Roger
http://www.west17media.com

Re: And the Winner is…

techwinter — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:12:25 -0000

Thanks mate for the feedback. We liked the old one too.

Re: The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave

techwinter — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:29:45 -0000

I like that thought. Now that they have engineered and designed the basics e.g. concept, direction and platform, one should expect them to make a strong commitment to ensure the product if not broadly accessible today is at committed to occur in the near term. Good spot Allen!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:57:44 -0000

Thanks for taking the time to add your vote!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:56:46 -0000

Thank you for your vote!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:12:31 -0000

Very very helpful. Votes plus commentary is good value for us. We can take that away and consider your arguments rather than just the letter chosen. Thanks!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:51:54 -0000

Joshua wow! That was a huge response. Although I am not an expert and can't contest any of the really great feedback you offered (for free) and it was very kind of you by the way.

Happy to talk further via email or Skype but this is going to be my first and last comment on the issue since this is not what the post is about and it would be impolite of us to hijack the conversation. Hopefully you agree.

Will ping you an email shortly so you can reach me if you like. PS. My skype name is RogerKondrat

Cheers

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:40:11 -0000

Mate thanks for your feedback.

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:25:56 -0000

Reallyyyy... Cool. Ping me on Twitter @roger and we can follow each other and then DM.

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:56:28 -0000

hahaha very cool thoughts Cam and I like your logic too. Votes are good but votes with your reasoning are awesome. Props mate.

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:46:30 -0000

You are my man Brad because that is my favourite - don't tell anyone though ;) #mmmlogo

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:34:08 -0000

Thanks Bob, really detailed feedback which is awesome! We are just now hearing about logo-B giving that impression. #mmmlogo

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:05:54 -0000

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:48:09 -0000

Thanks Londi for your support!

Re: Help wanted! Help us to choose our new logo design!

techwinter — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:13:04 -0000

Jennifer that is my fav too! Hahaha guys she likes mine. :)

Re: Can traditional marketing and social media marketing co-exist?

techwinter — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:56:17 -0000

Hi Stuart

Thanks for dropping by our little abode and for your supportive comments. Really think 'saving' money shouldn't be the message we as social media experts put out there. Social Media isn't cheap, it does however provide very good value for your $ and that should be the message we (all soc med advocates) communicate IMO.

In these economically rocky times it wise for businesses to re-evaluate 'bang for their buck' and look to social media as a wise long term value generating strategy.

Cheers
Roger
West17Media

Re: Introducing Reportage for iPhone

techwinter — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:11:41 -0000

Sounds cool. But as a Symbian lover (Nokia S60 actually) let me tell you a little bit about it, so when the day comes to decide you may have a few extra reasons.

Symbian controls over 60% of the world market in Smartphones. They are launching their App store in the next 30 days and it will include 20,000 apps at launch. The apps for Twitter on Symbian phones are pretty poor and with few options. Its my opinion you would find the market bigger and easier to compete over the dozens of Twitter apps on iPhone.

Cheers
Roger
West17Media

Re: Facebook - The new AOL?

techwinter — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:19:41 -0000

Hi Mike!

Thanks for your thoughts. Although I am not sure I follow much of your logic and therefore don't want to say 'no' just to disagree, I will point out that I never said 2004 in reference to AOL or Yahoo!.

If you look at the quote you mention e.g.
"But since 2004, there has been another giant in the making - Facebook - the ‘de jour’ term from as early as 2007".
Reading the above quote again, I am hoping you realise that this referred to Facebook's beginning not Yahoo! or AOL.

Also I was on the Internet putting up web pages in 1998 (running my own hosting company) so I know what the Internet was like, we (non-AOL users) were worried about how AOL was going to affect the future of the web. That it was so big and closed was a big concern.

Yahoo! was a fast growing portal at the time as were others, and yes closed-systems were normal but again I don't see how that invalidates my point. I spoke about IRC as an example at the "future of journalism" event as an example of how Twitter and its kin are nothing new but I have yet to see how you connect that as a way of saying I am wrong.

Mike I am truly lost because I really don't see how your point relates to my article in the least. Many of the challenges you make are seemingly irrelevant to what I was focusing on as my core argument. Would love to get a follow up comment or even a phone call if necessary to figure out what you are trying to tell me.

Thanks for commenting though! Especially a scrappy one, they are more fun.

Cheers
Roger
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West17Media

Re: Palm investor puts his mouth where his money is

techwinter — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:02:13 -0000

I am with you Robin, although I have found it more of a 50/50 situation amongst my peers. I do know lots of people that held off the iPhone (myself included) that have been evangelizing their product already which is amazing for a Palm product in general.

Fingers crossed they have a successful launch. Go Palm, don't go quietly into the night guys!

Re: louisgray.com: Sirius Radio Now Looks Like an Outer Space WebVan

techwinter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:43:09 -0000

I can't say I disagree with you Louis. They have definitely made some missteps and their strategy I felt seemed to stagnate once they began focusing on getting approval for the merger of Sirius and XM.

Will they come back as a different brand? I don't know, a bankruptcy route shouldn't affect that but re-aligning their strategy might. I agree with you that their content will be dramatically impacted, this has always been the case before why would that change in the future.

I wonder though if bankruptcy wasn't inevitable, perhaps they need it to restructure enough of their debt so they can take risks again particularly on the content side.

Could you agree of late their strategy on content differed from the early launch days when they tried everything and only cutting content based on poor performance where as later on they tended to consolidate shows based purely on cost efficiencies.

They need to become flexible again and continue to test and explore their role in the radio market as premium providers.

Cheers

Roger

Social Media Community

Re: louisgray.com: Twitter Squats on People Wanting Squatter Usernames

techwinter — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:59:41 -0000

They do it for you Duncan, if you ask to be 'transferred' rather than start a new account.

Re: Twitblogs Takes Twitblogging to the Next Level

techwinter — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:40:31 -0000

Hi Domenick

Not sure how someone can know my Twitter address and not even bother to ask me a single question before posting on my behalf this way....

No I have not left Twitblogs and the reason you don't see many blog posts is because I changed my URL from rogerkondrat to twitter.com/roger and twitblogs doesn't (yet) have a way of transferring posts if you change your username.

Plus generally I don't blog much anymore, I just write when I really really want to and not because I have to anymore.

Cheers
Roger

Re: louisgray.com: Walls, Blogs, and Power: Building Fortress Twitter

techwinter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:28:58 -0000

Also we offer the ability to Tweet from within Twitblogs which essentially means you don't have to go back to Twitter once logged into Twitblogs. In fact its probably safe to say Twitblogs's AJAX interface makes Tweeting easier than Tweeting from Twitter.

Thanks for the mention Eric.

Cheers