Support your favorite pirate today! Yeah, it’s on the 19th this year, but I like to party like a pirate a little early. Never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day? Only cool people do it, so if you aren’t doing it… Well, you already know you’re ‘that’ guy. Sad…
Anyhoo! Javascript insert created by Tom Hughes-Croucher of the amazing team at Yahoo! Developer Network. Get your own Talk Like A Pirate Javascript code here!
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All Me Posts Are Pirate Speak Now Mateys
I’m very impressed to see these thoughtful blogging guidelines from the US Air Force. Corporations should take some notes from these very clear tips, that also leave room for creative response.
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Air Force Blogging Guidelines
Jeff Pulver is putting together a conference and is looking for speakers.
So I’m putting out this “Call for Speakers” and looking for creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to come forward and pitch me about a topic they are passionate about and would like to speak about. (Practical talks are also welcome.)
What I hope to bring together is a gathering of people with a variety of backgrounds and industries and together explore the future of where things are going and what business models will be used to provide the dollar returns needed to get us there. I expect to bring together people from across the worlds of: Media / Internet / Communications / Entertainment. Something I would call a “MICE” event.
If you are interested in speaking at SocComm, and or would like to suggest a speaker, please contact me ASAP. The deadline for speaking proposals is December 5th but the first to approach me will be the first I consider for the event.
If you are interested in pitching your idea to him, do it via email.
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After seeing a series of tweets from a broad range of cool men, I stumbled upon Chris Brogan’s newest site, Dadomatic. The site is a range of posts from men who are taking fatherhood seriously.
From Eric Peterson:
Children can be so inspirational. It’s neat to see how they grow and develop, and even teach adults important lessons. So, that was my toddler taught adversity lesson. Or maybe it was actually a lesson on “independence” or “perseverance” or “toughness.” At any rate, it’s another valuable lesson from a special child!
From Scott Wilder:
In the pursuit of evaluating my stewardship of time; I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve allowed deadly toxins to invade my schedule. Toxins in the form of people and activities that impare my ability to lavish love and attention on my bride and forthcoming child.
From Joe Hage (on a subject we’re also dealing with at home):
Four-year-old Lukey got in trouble today.
Hitting at school. This after yesterday’s “pushing game” at school and the day before’s “spitting at school.”
This site gives a voice to a segment of people who rarely get to really talk about parenting. We applaud women as mothers, single mothers, females in general who blog, but when do we pat men on the back for the roles they play in our children’s lives? My husband is an amazing father, and I’m so glad to be able to show him this site and give him a way to speak out on the amazing things he does with our kids.
My only suggestion is to have the author’s names link to their home blog so when people (like me) quote this blog, we can link back to them correctly.
Thanks Chris, for giving men a community like BlogHer. To quote Martha Stewart, it’s a good thing.
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Dadomatic – BlogHim?
I just got back from the Community Managers Meetup in San Francisco, which was held at the Thirsty Bear Brewery. There was only a small crowd, but I think that’s how it goes when you are just starting a new group. Rich Reader, a social media consultant, and Adam Jackson, Community Manager at Yoono (firefox extension based on your social sphere), were there. Some of the topics we discussed:
Keeping the objective in mind
– what do you want to accomplish?
Measuring Success
– Metrics, growth, engagement, etc.
Next month we’ll be discussing the tools we use to manage our community, including how we measure success (since it was an interesting topic this time). If you are a community manager and would like to join us, the group on Upcoming is Community Management Meetup. We meet once a month, somewhere in San Fran.
Likewise, if you are a business that wants to host us one month, we’d love to take this to a place with a whiteboard occasionally. Email me at robyn at sleepyblogger dot com.
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Community Managers Meetup #1
Photo Credit Brad_Crooks
Brad Crooks took this pic of me at one of my panels on Sunday at BlogWorld Expo. I look like I’m in the Thriller video!
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BlogWorld Expo 08 – Robyn Tippins
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This is great. Even as a repub (yeah, I know, the only one in Cali) I think this is so funny! Kudos to Hugh Atkin and Alastair Corrigall who edited this altogether on YouTube. (via)
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Rickrolling McCain
It’s always nice to be around a throng of smart people, but when those people are developers and those developers are crazy creative and ready to hack, it makes your day even better. Hackday 08 has finally arrived!
Since Web 2.0 Expo, a few trickles of information has been coming out about what we’re planning, from Yahoo! joining the OpenSocial foundation as a founder to our provisioning OpenIDs, there *is* an effort there to open up. Yesterday Yahoo! unveiled a glimpse at what you can expect from us in the coming months. Many of us have been head-down on parts of this initiative for quite a while and have been dying to spill the beans (and you know how difficult it is for a blogger to keep secrets!), but I’m glad a nice chunk of it is finally out in the open (no pun intended).
A few of the cool APIs that enable this more open Yahoo! have already been released (SearchMonkey, BOSS ($3K Mashable Contest), Address Book, FireEagle, GeoPlanet, Music, etc.) but there’s a sneaky peek going on today that gives Hackday developers access to some of the rest of what’s cooking. It includes many of the Y!OS components.
I worked on the YAP team from Nov-May and I can’t tell you how exciting it is to finally share at least a glimpse of this one. Being a part of something that allows developers to reach Yahoo!’s massive audience, and enrich our user experience in the meantime, has been awesome. Today devs are being given the opportunity to build apps and see them running on Mail and My Yahoo. Just a preview, but hey, that means our Hackday peeps are *exclusive*. 
The rest of today will be filled with deep dives on particular APIs and some unconf-type sessions from 3-5, then there’s a band tonight (not allowed to blog who it is just yet). We’ll hack all night and begin presentations tomorrow afternoon. I’ve gotta run because I need to scout out where I’m camping tonight. More later!
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Open Yahoo! – Hackday 2008
Why is everyone bitching because this app was not approved? I’m trying to find out where the outcry is coming from… Why is it a bad thing that Pull My Finger was removed? Editorial control (ie real human actually looking at apps) is what we’re all begging for on most platforms. Is the argument that this is subjective? I’m totally confused as to what we are missing out on by not being able to buy this app? (via)
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Apple Holding App Developers To Minimum Standard-The Horror!
