Posted in Social Media on February 28, 2010 by Mike Seidle
Smaller Indiana
I haven't been posting as much over at Smaller Indiana as I usually do... so today I figured I'd browse through and say hi. Much to my surprise, most of the front page conversations had just a few (1-5) comments. A year ago, you would see 14-16 comments on just about anything. There have been a couple of huge policy changes, and I'm curious if any of them are the cause of the apparent fall-off in engagement:
Posted in Careers on February 22, 2010 by Kirk Abraham
That’s right. Even with unemployment at 10%. What’s worse, most don’t understand WHY this is happening...
Let me clarify; I'm referring to white collar, degreed professionals. Gen Y, Gen X and Boomers. All of them.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 by Mike Seidle
Ok, I'm not real happy with Plaxo to begin with since their little incident in December where they lost a good number of groups, including the Linking Indiana group. Originally Plaxo was supposed to be a way to keep your addresses up to date in Outlook... the basic idea was:
- Upload your contacts.
- Plaxo would let your contacts update their info.
- Outlook would sync in the updates.
When they made the jump to becoming a social networks, it kind of worked. Now I could connect with people and share... contact info, which was pretty useful most of the time... except for the spam... most of which involved stock tips and MLM business opportunities. Then they added a bunch of new lifestream features and broke groups in the process. They also proved:
Posted in Linking Indiana on January 14, 2010 by Mike Seidle
I thought I'd take a minute to rant about why Indianapolis Big Bang isn't going to happen. There's a story I'd really, really like to tell and a few fingers I would like to point.
I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to leave it with:
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 by Paul Lorinczi
Mr. Matt Pivec - a Professor of Jazz Studies at Butler University is a visionary.
Well, we are less than 24 hours from crossing the finish line on Indiana's Favorite Blog. The question is, was it worth doing? Emotionally speaking, yes. Getting a ton of Hoosier blogs some attention was a great thing.
Like everything else on the web, you can't put a lot of stock in emotions, so you look to analytics to get the hard answers. Channeling my best Richard Dawson imitation:
