Zenchine – Zen Poetry Blog, Twitter, Identica, Facebook

Birch Moon, originally uploaded by chefranden. This is an update on the Haiku, Tanka and Image Meditation project, which is purely a hobby and amateur effort but is growing and getting some traffic. Humble origins, Twitter Haiku The 140 character limit of twitter is not a problem for micropoetry forms such as Haiku (with a [...]

Facebook and Twitter Status Update Tools

There are many ways of managing social media messaging. A lot of this has to do with work style and personal preference. It is not yet possible to maintain all the conversations in a single place. Therefore we have to make do and find a way that supports the messaging needs of our networks as [...]

The Credit Crunch and Social Capital – 4 Personal Branding Tips

How’s your personal Google rank these days? Is your personal brand showing up where you want it to (hint, a majority of links in the top 10 results, if not the top 4)? 0. Google Result item promotion After googling myself today, I made a few discoveries, that seem interesting to share. The first discovery [...]

Twitter to Laconica Bridge for Identica / army.twit.tv / etc.

Hello folks, I am new to the bridge thing, which essentially are one way feeds of dents from identi.ca or Leo Laporte‘s army.twit.tv or any other laconica installation. From what I can tell there are currently three ways of doing this bridge, though I am sure this will multiply very soon, and I likely have [...]

Personal Brand – A Brand Called You – Online Influencer

This blog posting came out of some questions that Pomai asked me about “branding yourself”. Brand Yourself The term “brand yourself” doesn’t actually make sense except in a colloquial way. We are “always” “branding ourselves” if by that we mean communicating with others in ways that create or manage a particular “brand”–a category in the [...]