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New Book Coverage: Interviews, Reviews, Conference Mentions and More!

January 5th, 2009

It’s been a few months since I posted a book related press recap, so I wanted to highlight all of the great mentions that the book has received in that time.

There were new reviews from Martin Reed of Community Spark, Des Walsh, Jessica Smith of Jessica Knows, Kare Anderson of Moving From Me to We.com (also posted on Gaia), Martin Kloos of TheNextWeb.com and Rob Diana of Regular Geek. Mrs. Smith was kind enough to include me in her 15 Days of Marketing series, as well.

I was interviewed by BloggerTalks and for Urban Lifestyle Report: New Media’s October issue. I appeared for live video interviews on SuccessfoolTV and The Tech Buzz and participated in a live podcast interview on PerfCast, the podcast of Performancing. For The Tech Buzz interview, the show did a book giveaway, which was mentioned by Geek Talk Radio.

My friend Jason Falls invited me to speak via live stream at a Social Media Club Louisville meet up. This was mentioned in Business First of Louisville. Esther Schindler of CIO highlighted the book in her “6 Stupid Mistakes Companies Make with Their Online Communities” article. I wrote a guest post on the subject of “Blogging for Dollars” for The Graduate Student Survival Blog, part of the Albany Times-Union.

Kelby Carr highlighted the book when talking about my sessions at the Independent Blogging Conference at Greensboro, which she co-organized. On a related note, popular Twitterer Brian Carter, who I met while in Greensboro, mentioned the book in his stream.

Using the book has a basis, Lois Kelly of Bloghound wrote an article titled “10 ideas for Creating Community Guidelines.” Lois also highlighted the book at two conference sessions that she led. One, at the Extending Your Brand to Employees Conference on November 17 in Chicago, was called “The Power of Social Media: Putting It to Work for Your Employer Brand” session. The slides are posted online and the book is mentioned in number 57. The other was at the Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education, also in Chicago, on November 16, during the “Online Communities that Thrive: Realizing the Possibilities; Burning Down the Obstacles” session.

Steve Magruder of WebCommons shared that he would be rewriting his own forum guidelines using ideas from the book.

As part of a book meme, where the person that you tag must tell you the book that is closest to you and tell you what it is, Mike Mueller had “Managing Online Forums” closest.

vBulletin Setup mentioned the book in reference to a recent contest where they gave away a copy. In the 19th edition of “Jeff Herman’s Guide To Book Publishers, Editors, & Literary Agents 2009: Who They Are! What They Want! How To Win Them Over!”, Mr. Herman mentioned the book in an AMACOM company profile.

As part of her “Internet Marketing Christmas” post, Lynn Terry of ClickNewz! receorded a video where she opened presents that she had received in the mail. She included a greeting card that I had sent her and was kind enough to mention the book, as I had included a business card for it, as well.

In a year end post, phpBB Weekly’s Douglas Bell highlighted the book centric interview episode we did as a runner up in his list of their best episodes of the year.

At the “Solutions Are Power” by Network Solutions blog, Steve Fisher mentioned the book in relation to my attendance at the Blog World & New Media Expo.

Finally, I provided advance praise for the book “Designing the Digital Experience: How To Use EXPERIENCE DESIGN Tools & Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love” and”Managing Online Forums” is mentioned alongside the praise.

A huge thanks to everyone who has expressed an interest in the book. It means a lot to me and I really appreciate it! I’m looking forward to what lies ahead in 2009.

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My Top Artists and Songs of 2008, According to Last.fm

January 1st, 2009

Last night, right after midnight, I saved my Last.fm chart data for 2008, so that I could play with it and figure out what my top artists and songs of 2008 were, according to the service. Mainly, it was for my own curiosity, but I figured that I may as well blog about it, for posterity, at least. This is based on the top 500 artists and top 500 tracks, as that is all that Last.fm shows you.

Here are my top 25 most played tracks:

1. “Take You There” by Donnie Klang featuring Diddy.
2. “Need A Wife” by Charlie Wilson featuring Diddy.
2. “Living in Pain” by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring 2Pac, Nas and Mary J. Blige.
4. “Hot & Wet (Remix)” by 112 featuring Chingy, Ludacris and Diddy.
4. “I Get Money (Forbes 1-2-3 Billion Dollar Remix) by 50 Cent featuring Diddy and Jay-Z.
6. “Hood Figga (Remix)” by Gorilla Zoe featuring Block, Rick Ross, Jim Jones, Yung Joc and Young Jeezy.
7. “Used to Be” by Ryan Leslie featuring Fabolous.
8. “Check Your Coat (Remix)” by O’Neal McKnight featuring Puff Daddy, Jermaine Dupri and Greg Nice.
8. “Justify My Thug” by Jay-Z.
10. “Ignorant S***” by Jay-Z featuring Beanie Sigel.
11. “Through the Pain (She Told Me)” by Diddy featuring Mario Winans.
12. “Superstar” by Lupe Fiasco featuring Matthew Santos.
13. “Cheat on You” by Mase featuring Lil’ Cease and Jay-Z.
13. “By Faith” by Diddy featuring Fred Hammond.
13. “Rock U” by Ryan Leslie.
16. “Flashing Lights” by Kanye West featuring Dwele.
16. “Official Girl” by Cassie featuring Lil’ Wayne.
16. “Damaged (Remix)” by Danity Kane featuring Fabolous.
16. “Get Buck in Here” by DJ Felli Fel featuring Diddy, Akon, Ludacris and Lil’ Jon.
20. “We Fly High (Remix)” by Jim Jones featuring Diddy, T.I., Baby and Young Dro.
20. “Apologize (Remix)” by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic and Gorilla Zoe.
20. “Confessions” by 8 Ball & MJG featuring Poo Bear.
23. “Addiction” by Ryan Leslie featuring Cassie and Fabolous.
23. “Check Your Coat” by O’Neal McKnight featuring Greg Nice.
25. “Apologize” by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic.
25. “The Way I Are” by Timbaland featuring Doe and Keri Hilson. Read the rest of this entry »

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“Community Builder of the Year” in the SitePoint Community Awards 2008!

December 23rd, 2008

I’m happy to say that I was voted “Community Builder of the Year” in the SitePoint Community Awards 2008. Dave Maxwell announced the results today. I really appreciate the recognition. Thank you to everyone who nominated me and everyone who voted for me, as well. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees.

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“The CollegeHumor Show” Picked Up by MTV

December 18th, 2008

I’m a big fan of College Humor and Jake and Amir. So, it’s great to hear that MTV has picked up “The CollegeHumor Show”:

“The CollegeHumor Show,” which takes a look at the “offbeat” workplace of the twentysomething-run Web site CollegeHumor.com.

Check out the clip below, where the CollegeHumor folks announced it (some of it is a little inappropriate for general audiences, fair warning, as is CollegeHumor in general):

Both the Tumblrs of Jake Hurwitz and Streeter Seidell, who edits the CH front page, note that it is not a reality show - it’s scripted. I’m looking forward to it!

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Happy Holidays!

December 12th, 2008

With the holiday season upon us, it may be a little quiet around here toward the end of this month, but I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy holiday and a happy, healthy and successful 2009!

Thank you to everyone who has read, commented, linked and contributed to this site and others in 2008. It’s been a great year, in a lot of ways, and I am truly thankful for all of the support that I have received.

Thank you.

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Live Interview on PerfCast Tonight

December 11th, 2008

Tonight at 7 PM ET, I’ll be appearing live on PerfCast, the Performancing podcast. It’s hosted by Jeff Chandler and David Peralty. If you have some spare time, please stop by and participate in the live chat! The show will be broadcast on TalkShoe.

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DrGregHouse.com For Sale!

December 9th, 2008

I have put DrGregHouse.com up for sale on the SitePoint Marketplace. I am really looking to prioritize my time a bit. Though I enjoy the site, I have other projects I want to dedicate that time to. So, I’d like to sell the site to someone interested in it and move on.

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New Ryan Leslie Video: “How It Was Supposed to Be” (Music Video 1 of 3)

December 8th, 2008

Ryan Leslie release a new music video today for his latest single, “How It Was Supposed to Be.” This is the first and three music videos for the track, he says. The video version is a bit of a rock remix as it has guitar elements that the original doesn’t have. I like the song a lot. I like the original a little better, I think, but this version is cool, as well. Here’s the video:

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Nominated for “Community Builder of the Year” in the 2008 SitePoint Forums Community Awards

December 5th, 2008

I have been nominated in the “Community Builder of the Year” category in the 2008 SitePoint Forums Community Awards, the annual awards program over at the SitePoint Forums. Thank you to everyone who nominated me. Voting has begun. I won the equivalent award last year. It’s be cool to win again, but just being nominated is awesome.

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Share Your Stories About the Power of Online Community

December 2nd, 2008

Jake McKee has launched Connected by Distance, a new site dedicated to sharing stories about the power of online community. From the index page:

Every day in online communities around the Web and the world people are coming together, creating together, discussing, and sharing. There are literally hundreds of thousands of stories that community members can and do tell about the impact of community on their lives. Whether a cancer survivor is getting support, or a couple meets, dates, and marries, or simply friends make a podcast together across three states, communities can affect us all.

The Connected by Distance project is an attempt to collect and share those stories.

Right now it’s a web project, but Jake hopes to take 50 stories and edit them into book form for publishing. So, if you have a story to share, please give it a look. I need to come up with one. I’m sure I have a bunch of stories, but I see so much that I don’t really think of them in that context!

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