Next week in Tokyo

December 4, 2008 by Ben Shoemate

I’ll be in Tokyo next week demonstrating Confluence Wiki and doing some admin training. It’s not my first time there but I thought I’d ask if any one has any suggestions for “must see”, “must do” activities. Ideas?

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Google Friend Connect – First taste

December 4, 2008 by Ben Shoemate

I installed Google Friend connect on my site tonight. What is it? It’s a way to turn your website into a community (and in the process, find out how unpopular you really are.) Please join my site…so my little avatar is not alone down there. http://www.google.com/friendconnect/

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Product Idea: Universal content migrator

December 4, 2008 by Ben Shoemate

Almost all blog, wiki, and web content management tools these days support xml-rpc (a method that allows you to manipulate content remotely – for example you can have desktop software that lets you publish to your blog). We are getting very close to having the ability have truly free and interchangeable data. All we need now is a tool that asks you for the source site, the target site, and maybe some additional information (usernames and passwords, keep tags, keep dates, etc) and go. Of course we could also get fancy and add a filter to say only get content from the source that matches this criteria or that.

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Create passionate, loyal users

December 1, 2008 by Ben Shoemate

Want passionate, loyal customers. Want them to rave over your products. Want them to BUY MORE OF YOUR STUFF. Then help them look good. As obvious as this sounds, it is worth taking the time to think about. Think about what you can do to make them great, not you great. Watch this video. It might change your life, your business, everything.

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See your photo in the comments

December 1, 2008 by Ben Shoemate

I was wondering why every single commenter on my post about Einstein’s Power Beyond Imagination quote had a photo…except me. It seems a little weird to be the only one with a photo on your own blog. Where do these blog comment photo’s come from? To find out, right click on one of the photos and look at the location – gravatar. To get your own go to http://en.gravatar.com/emails. You tell them your email address and the picture you want to display. Then one every blog that uses them, your picture will appear…on every blog you have ever used that email on. (this is one reason why most blogs require your email to leave a comment). Pretty neat.