Spreading yourself too thin, or just branching out?

On August 15th, 2011 Mark Bandte wrote:

So I'm one of those people who is kind of good at many different things.  I been around, y'know?  So these things I can do, be it making some films for the web, selling snow to eskimos, consulting people on social media, or even fixing a broken roof - they are things that I can do here and there for customers or friends, and sometimes even make some money from  it (or barter for services and products).  But how is it that I could promote myself as "singer, internet extraordinaire, filmmaker and roof fixer"?  These things are quite different, and anyone who knows anything about SEO will tell you that it would be pretty damned hard to get a site going with all those things combined, but hey - I don't really care about that so much.  This is where word of mouth comes into play, and that good ol' word of mouth is my bread and butter, especially when it comes to Toothless Tiger and social media in general. 

After all - social media is just amplifying the word of mouth market.  Getting the message across to more people than you would normally talk to in person, simply because they are on you contacts list.  I have actually gotten some cool jobs merely by an acquaintance noticing my photos (which I have neither studied nor proclaimed that I am great at), and me saying 'Yeah…I can do that' and them telling a friend who books me.  What luck!  Or is it?  Is it not a way of promoting ones self simply by doing?  By living?  By showing yourself, and your abilities?  It's especially the 'showing' that's important here, I think - because if you aren't showing the world what you do, how is it supposed to know?

So I figure that if I just do these things as they hit me, and do them as well as I can [as well as being as charming as possible while doing so ;) ], that I might just get remembered in those certain conversations where other people or companies need the same.  Remember the olden days? Someone would hook you up with the fix-it guy who would come to your house  do your plumbing, your lights and your tv.  I like that.  But more like a modern version, where I can drop by, take some photos and film, make you laugh and sell you some snow….and sing while I'm doing it  And in the end, hopefully you will have some information, some inspiration and a film that you can put on your website and sell a gazillion whatever it is that you sell.

[social, media, word, mouth, film, web, photos, consulting] [0 comments]

Whatever happened to transitional web apps ? they turned into something else

On March 15th, 2009 Henriette Weber wrote:

Well they transided =) - Anyway after being at the Tangible Interactions in Urban Spaces panel at SXSW, I ran all the way back to my hotel room to note this thing down.
So basically, Transitional web apps was the web applications that made web 2.0 reach out and still does. Web apps such as twitter, jaiku, peripheral devices such as nabaztags and photoframes, things that can run in their own environment (be it mobile or any other platform) but still connected to the web. So the web has turned from social computing and now it's all about social objects - objects that we are social around with other people.

After social objects the panel predicted that then we would get social environments, build out of architecture and open source online as well as offline. So this would mean that you could stylesheet buildings and spaces IRL! - nice. another pointer was that instead of user generated content, we would actually see user generated context, where, if we are lucky enough everything is designed to be participated in and hacked. So instead of social media we would have fluid media. I think that sound pretty funky - how about you ?


[transitionalwebapps, sxsw, urbanspaces, tangible, peripheraldevices, web, social computing, social objects, social environments, hacking, user generated content, user generated context, fluid media] [6 comments]

vote for our SXSW'09 panel

On August 18th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

Yep people, I am going to Austin Texas!

If not to check out all the cool crafting and 10 gallon hats there must recide in Austin, Texas - then to be a part of SXSW'09.

And get this - Me and Molly, Laura and Francesca had a chat at reboot10, and we decided to make a panel for SXSW. About the web that could have been. Molly and I submitted it - and now it's up there on the SXSW panel picker titled as "this could have been your web".

First of all, I think the idea rocks - "this could have been your web" - is a panel that I would love to see myself, I like the idea of predicting the future from a 100 years back.

According to that, It will be such a thrill to me, to work with people on this subject including Molly.

So sharpen your pens and go to the SXSW panel picker and vote for us!

[sxsw, sxsw09, thiscouldhavebeenyourweb, mollywrightsteenson, francescabirks, laurakiralfy, technologies, web] [2 comments]