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Sharing the wisdom of the Plurkcommunity.

Plurkshop 16: StumbleUponNovember 14 2008

This past Monday, we had our 16th Plurkshop. This was the first one I’ve hosted, so I’ll admit, I was a bit nervous, especially since it was also the first Plurkshop in over a month.

Nowsourcing was also on hand to help answer questions, which I greatly appreciated. He started the discussion off by suggesting that people share their SU profiles, which lead to a discussion on adding people as friends.

For years, if I followed you and you followed me on StumbleUpon, we were considered friends. There were 2 problems with that though.

1) SU had a 200 person follow limit, so you needed to be careful about who you added, and

2) friends affected what pages you’d see if you clicked the stumble button, so following a RL (real life) friend might mean you’d get pages you weren’t really interested in.

Recently SU made a major change that addressed both of these issues.

First they removed the limits! Now on SU, you can follow as many people as you want.

Second, they separated friends and followers. Now I can choose whether I want to see what my friends are stumbling or wh

Plurkshop #15: 9/16 a delicious.com “how to” hosted by Connie ReeceSeptember 15 2008

Tomorrow night, 9/16 at 9pm EDT/8pm CDT/7pm MDT/6pm PDT/ 01:00 on 9/17 GMT, Connie Reeece (@Connie on Plurk) will host a plurkshop on delicious and how to maximize it! Be there (or don’t).

**Note original post stated) 02:00, that is incorrect. The correct time is 01:00. Many apologies- deb

Plurkshop #13 Recap: Frank Martin explains Focus Groups and the WebAugust 7 2008

For those of you who have not yet succumbed to the siren call of social media in the form of Plurk and Twitter, a “Plurkshop” is a pretty neat way to collect the thoughts, ideas and whimsical creativity of some of the smartest marketing people on the web. Or, it can be a way to help your colleagues develop an understanding of what you do in a way that they can discuss it intelligently with others. Can I hear anyone thinking “referrals”??

Focus Groups are one of the most widely misunderstood applications in marketing research. Everyone will say they know what a focus group is, but when you press them for a definition, what they come out with may be extremely different from what someone else might say. People routinely say “let’s do a focus group”, when what they mean is “let’s have a meeting”, or “let’s get a whole bunch of our customers together and feed them and ask them how much they like us.”

So Tuesday night, I hosted a “Plurkshop” and invited everybody to weigh in with thoughts, questions, preconceptions, criticisms or anything else relevant to the topic.

The page is here! 

We discussed everything from reasons for doing groups, to who hires the moderator, to how much they typically cost. Many of the Plurkshop

Plurkshop #14: Switching from Blogger to WordPress with Debra SimpsonAugust 6 2008

Join us on Tuesday, August 12 @ 10pm ET (Wednesday, August 13, 2am GMT) to discuss the benefits and challenges of switching your blog from Blogger to WordPress. Debra Simpson, @Debra, will share her wisdom with us. This Plurkshop will be hosted by @plurkshop. Please friend @plurkshop to get reminders and attend!

PLURKSHOP #12 RECAP - Weblog Copyright Infringement, Plagiarism, and SploggingAugust 6 2008

By Jane Chin
If our personal brand is our most valuable asset, then content is an important contributor to our online efforts to cultivate our personal brand. Unauthorized piracy or reproduction of our content either by another blogger, or worse, “splogger” (spam blogger)  at best dilutes our effort. At worst, our credibility may be questioned if a prospective client assumes our affiliation with the splogger or blogger whose website is perceived as objectionable.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement)

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism)

Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs[citation needed], are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated website