Tag Archives: Online Communities

3 Videos Every Product Manager Must Watch

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Morgan

Being a product manager is tough work. You’re constantly balancing out the needs of the business, the needs of the users and the capabilities and bandwidth of engineering to move the product forward and to make it more successful. It … Continue reading →

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Twitter, Comedy and Writing with Constraints

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Morgan

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Conan on comedy writing on Twitter, from one of my favorite blogs, Bobulate: What’s interesting about Twitter is that because you’re limited to 140 characters … it’s actually a great comedy-writing tool. There’s this economy … Continue reading →

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Responsibility

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Morgan

If you’re reading this it’s a good bet that you are probably responsible for marketing your company in one form or another.  And if so, instead of another list of things to do in 2010, or another pile of resolutions … Continue reading →

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The Art of Access

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Morgan

Access. It’s what everyone wants.  Access to the best events, access to the famous people.  If the adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” is true (and, it is) then access is what gets you to the … Continue reading →

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The difference between ad:tech and Blogworld

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Morgan

I’m at ad:tech this week.  I just spent the last 10+ hours in a booth talking to people about online advertising.  All the big online agencies are here, WPP, Digitas, TribalDDB, etc. etc.  The big online players are here too, … Continue reading →

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4C’s of Personal Branding

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Morgan

I’m still working on my keynote on Building a Personal Brand for November 7th.  I think I’ve come up with a framework for the talk that I’m happy with, now I just need to round it out and execute on … Continue reading →

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If you’re not using Facebook search you don’t know what you’re missing

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Morgan

Tonight while I was going through some of the different social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook I decided to do a search on the name of the company I work for “TurnHere.” Now I do this regularly and automatically … Continue reading →

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Create shared experiences to build your community

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Morgan

In my post about what I learned about BlogWorld I mentioned the power of social objects to build community, and one of the commenters, Daniel Honigman pointed out correctly that I was referring to shared experiences rather than social objects. … Continue reading →

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“From 1 to 1 million” – Kevin Rose’s advice on growing your site

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Morgan

Below is a great talk by Kevin Rose (the q&a not so much) sharing his insight on how to get from 1 user to 1 million, recounting his experience with sites like Digg, Pownce, Twitter and others.  Definitely worth the … Continue reading →

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