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Michael Bailey

Internet Applications & Design


10 Ways to Fake TransparencyYesterday

Hey there - thanks for checking this out - you are on your way to making it to the top, so why not take a bunch of short-cuts and get there quicker!?

Face the facts

Maintaining a Social Network takes a lot of time.

Transparency is one of the key methods to ensure that your efforts are noticed and well received.

Who has time for that?

Here are 10 ways that you can automate the process.

  1. Use Twitter (you should already be doing this) and hook up an automated follow-bot which will send a (Direct Message (DM) to new followers.
  2. Publish goals as if you think positive all the time.
  3. Obscure your message with shiny distractions. “Win an iPod”, etc.
  4. Distribute skewed facts which people will accept on face value alone. Spin, spin, spin.
  5. Write a book or a blog as if you are the expert, and never interact with your readers.
  6. Act as if everything you are saying is already common knowledge.
  7. Take advantage of and exploit the insecurities of others.
  8. Create the illusion of a problem then step in and fix it publicly.
  9. Praise everyone who agrees with you and ignore or block those who don’t.
  10. Ask for help or solicit ideas as if the customer is part of the process, but of course, you can ne
Is Twitter Down?November 18

http://istwitterdown.com/

YES

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Motrin backlash gives me a headacheNovember 17

If you somehow missed it, people are upset with a new advertisement from Motrin.

Seems there’s a large group of overly sensitive people out there.

Here’s the video from YouTube and below is the text of what is said in the advertisement.

Five VITAL elements for ConversationOctober 18

As I continue to work on brining MobaTalk Beta online and getting it into your hands, my desk has become riddles with a lot of notes and diagrams because my whiteboard has already been filled up.

One of the items which I’ve scribbled on the whiteboard is listed under a heading of “Conversation Studio”

  • Video
  • Images
  • Text
  • Audio
  • Links

I’ve glanced at it more than a few times and then I finally saw it - VITAL

Those are the 5 things which we all use in some form or another in our online conversations, which are really not much different than real world conversations, except that most of them are not done in real time.

So, as MobaTalk Beta comes closer to launch, the 15 second pitch is this:

MobaTalk is an online Conversation Studio. It combines the five elements which are vital for online communications. Video, Images, Text, Audio, and Links.

The next 10 days will be a marathon race for me as I continue coding the site. I am anticipating the beta launch to take place as I demo the service on October 29th, 2008 at the Highlight Midwest event.

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MobaTalk reviewed on Mashable.comOctober 2

Thanks to Doriano “Paisano” Carta for his nice review of MobaTalk.com