Online community or communities?

Online involvement has been on my mind recently, specifically the idea of a “unified online presence” to which you may be thinking “What?!” So let me explain, I’ve had the term in my brain for a bit so I figured I picked it up from this guy, or this guy – but a search reveals [...]

Making the move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

So my first foray into blogging was over at Tactile Jazz, it was a a free site run on wordpress.com. It served me well as I started to learn the ins and outs of of the blogosphere. But as I learned more, I wanted to experiment more and while wordpress.com is super easy to get [...]

Haven’t posted in a long time – you’ll find me @Twitter

So I haven’t posted in a long time. Months in fact, I’ve just found out that for right now, I don’t quite have the time between my work at Abunga.com and life to write down my thoughts in paragraph format. So instead I’ve been Twittering. 50% of you are thinking, “What?” and the other 50% [...]

Have you been KNOX’D?

I saw that two guys here in Knoxville I’ve connected with via email and twitter in the past couple weeks, Patrick and Casey have launched a new project. It’s called Knox’d. I’ll let Patrick’s description stand on it own. Information seekers in Knoxville, TN have a new way to get the latest headlines and information [...]

The sandbox just got bigger – taking advantage of the network

I ran across a quote (emphasis added) yesterday in a post on Rowan Simpson’s blog where he was summarizing his time at Webstock. Tom Cotes, who gave the best explanations I’ve heard to date for why it’s important to think outside of your own little sandbox. Succeeding online means thinking about how to take advantages [...]

the road traveled

One of the first sessions at SoCon07 we talked about Web 2.0. Basically the idea that the web becomes dynamic and changes with use. One of the comments was “they get smarter with use” This stirred a thought, I’ve mentioned the TED conference before and one of my favorite TEDTalks is by a word-artist, Rives. [...]