ME on IT

Getting my Blog connected

I just connected my Typepad Blogs to Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. This allows me to share new posts on these services by simply clicking on a corresponding checkbox:

I think i really like this new feature:

• It makes it easier for me to keep everyone informed on what i do,
• will hopefully make me blog more
• and on top allows my Facebook Friends to add comments using their existing Facebook Profile.

Hope it all works properly. It would make sharing much easier.

Twitter-like search for Facebook

Rafe's Radar on CNET News today posted the following:

New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting Monday. The new interface for search makes it possible to see all public results from Facebook users (the Everyone filter), or just results from your friends. Or, as before, only Events, Groups, or Applications.

via news.cnet.com

I'm really looking forward to try this feature, as it is what distinguishes Facebook from Twitter. With this "Everyone"-Approach it might well be that Facebook steals some of Twitters audience. Especially as the audience of Facebook is almost 10x the size of the audience of Twitter and it features one thing that Twitter lacks: Building Groups.

I hope this pushes Twitter in a direction where they adopt Facebook Features in return. It's good they get some pressure... especially now that friendfeed got acquired by Facebook.

How to change iBlogger Footer

I had to search for a while to find out how to change the iBlogger Footer and want to share how it is done with you: There are iBlogger Settings in the main Settings of the iPhone. You won't find anything inside the application itself.

[via iBlogger / iPhone]

iBlogger is here

I have found my new Blogging Client for iPhone and it's called iBlogger. Currently testing and loving it with Typepad, Wordpress, MT... And guess what: it even works with Vox.

A review will follow during the next days, but if you are into Mobile Blogging like me simply spend the $10 on it. It's from the makers of ecto and it shows. Really loved it from the first minute and deleted all other clients from my phone.

Tags: iPhone

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Seth on Writing - not only for Blogs

One of the first questions i normally get when i introduce someone new to blogging is "how should i write my entries". Seth Godin (as often) has the answer, and according to him his guideline is valid for everything you might write, be it ad writing, business writing or notes.

I would like to extend his answer with the following:

• Don't start by publishing your own weblog, read other weblogs first
• Collect some bloggers you like and put them on your Blogroll. That's a good starting point for your sidebar
• Commenting is in my humble opinion more important than writing... it extends your social network. Don't simply wait until someone discovers your blog
• Have some blog entries "in there" before you start commenting. Bloggers are curious. They want to know who dropped a comment. (you might notice that there's only 3 entries in here by now... but there's more in german)
• Extend your reach by propagating your blog entries ... i will tell you about this during the next days. If you want to prepare yourself for that: Get a Twitter and a Friendfeed account.

Holiday?

I'm on holiday currently and i will be until next monday. Which doesn't mean i'm not working... I got to know lots of Web2.0 tools during the last days, finally understand twitter a little better, and fell in love with friendfeed and 30boxes. I had music with me all the time via last.fm . And although i ordered a MacBook (and mainly because of iWork Keynote), i experimented with a lovely RIA Presentation Tool called sliderocket which easily knocks out Powerpoint (let me thank Irma at that point in time for being my guide for most of the above).

The big question is: How do i get all these services incorporated into a company? I mean: We're behind the firewalls there. We have departmental structures instead of social networking. It will be an awful lot of work during the next months and years to get a transition like that done. But it should be fun.

Do i need a weblog in english?

I have one in german language... ...but do i need a weblog in english as well?

The blogosphere is an english phenomenon, but that's not the language i'm really used to. Most of the audience i want to write for is neither. Still, i want to drop comments on sites that are located around the world and some authors will not speak my language. I want them to be able to get an idea who i am when they get back here, so this is what this weblog is for.