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Dave Delaney

Social Media Strategist, New Media Specialist and Traditional Marketing Professional, Dave Delaney blogs about everything he loves.

What loves Twitter, coffee, blogging, bagels and meeting monthly?Yesterday

It’s the Nashville Geek Breakfast ONE YEAR Anniversary! If you’re in Nashville and you’re looking to hang out with 40 cool people, I recommend you RSVP now. Join us for breakfast at Noshville on Thursday, December 18th from 7:30am - 8:30am.

Here’s the note I sent the members today:

Wow, can you believe we’ve been meeting for breakfast for one year? Time seriously flies! Last December 5th about 10 people met at Noshville for the first Geek Breakfast: http://tinyurl.com/5kzjbu.

Our group has grown to about 40 people each month. The best part is that it’s a good mix of familiar faces and new ones each time. It’s always nice to welcome new and visiting “geeks” to Nashville.

If you missed it, our breakfast was mentioned on NPR this week: http://wpln.org/?p=1467. Funny, I don’t recall anyone from NPR recording interviews. It’s nice exposure regardless. Listen here.

I should also mention that two new Geek Breakfasts have popped up, one in Murfreesboro, TN and one in George, South Africa. Talk about a small world, eh? Watch this page to see when other GBs are born: http://geekbreakfast.org.

The December breakfast wil

Toronto Twitter Tweet Up RecapDecember 1

I had a wonderful time in Toronto, reconnecting with friends and family. It was also awesome being able to get a quick Toronto Twitter Tweet Up together (holy alliteration Batman!).

It was so cool to connect with new and old Twitter friends, many of which I had never met in person. I was happy to see Jesse Brown from Search Engine (one of my favorite podcasts) was able to make it too, he’s a great guy who was apologetic for being a tad harsh on me on a previous episode previous episode.

I had left an audio comment questioning our (blogger’s) use of the word “blog” versus “post”. I often hear people say that I wrote a blog today. When they really mean that they posted to their blog, or that they wrote a blog post.  This blog/post faux pau is nothing that seriously irks me, my ears simply perk up each time I hear someone say it. Okay, it does irk me.

The topic of grammar and language had come up on a couple of episodes of Search Engine recently, so I called my pet peeve in. In a heated moment Jesse sort of went off on my raising the subject. Obviously, he was joking around, after all if it had truly bothered him he never would have played my comment.

Something is moving on TwitterNovember 27

I was going about my daily business today, multi-tasking between my email, calendar, a few documents and spreadsheets, my RSS feed reader, and my Twitter client of choice, TweetDeck, when I noticed something moving on my screen.

It was unusual, it was something I wasn’t use to seeing. A user on Twitter had a large, animated GIF as their avatar. I’d never seen this before, I didn’t think it was possible to use an animated GIF as your profile picture.

I meant no offense to the user when I pointed this out to my friends on Twitter. People replied to me quickly, they even sent a couple of links to other profiles with animated icons. While some were amusing, I am still troubled with this.

I’m concerned because I’m picturing Twitter flooded with animation in the timeline. It would be as cheesy as a Las Vegas strip at night, or worse, a 1997 Geocities page. Cliff Ravenscraft hilariously tweeted that it would be the MySpaceification of Twitter.

Is this a bug, an oversight by Twitter, or have the

Have you hugged a blogger lately?November 24

Twitter is affecting the way I use blogs, but not about how I blog. Julien Smith recently wrote, “I’m starting to think that bloggers who heavily tweet are shortchanging themselves.”

He makes a great point about the time we spend tweeting over the time we spend blogging. Some people have even given up blogging altogether. I love blogging, I’m not about to stop any time soon. I do feel that my time on Twitter is affecting my relationships with my blogging buddies.

When I find a great post I am always quick to provide my Twitter friends with a link, so I know I am partly responsible for providing traffic to said blogs. It’s not that I am seeking credit for sending traffic to people’s blogs, I’m not. My problem is that I am not leaving comments like I should. Comments are hugs for bloggers.

If I read a great post I send the link to Twitter and include a message (in as many characters as I have remaining). I don’t actually write a

Firefox Tip - Synchronize your bookmarks between machinesNovember 23

I’m on my XP machine at home right now, my wife is on my MacBook upstairs. I was just looking for a bookmark in Firefox which I created at work. Under other circumstances I’d be in a pickle (possibly stuck between a rock and a hard place, or even up a certain creek without a paddle), luckily I’m using an awesome add-on that syncs my bookmarks between my machines.

Foxmarks is a free add-on for your Firefox browser that syncs and backs up your bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers and more.

I highly recommend you check out Foxmarks. I’ve been using it for a couple of months and I love it.

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