Fygment

Fantastic roadmap from Jeremiah Owyang originally posted here http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/11/20/social-impacts-every-customer-touchpoint/#

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Don't get me wrong; I'm blessed for the number of people who believe in me, and for those who reach out to garner my involvement in their fantastic ideas. In fact, it has been a factor in much of my success. But, one of the things I have to constantly caution myself against is over-committing, from meetings to the resultant projects.

During my 'Confessions of a Serial Tummler' talk at SocialDevCamp Chicago, this past weekend, I was asked by a fellow entrepreneur about how I manage meeting requests, and promised I'd share an outline I borrowed from a mentor's suggestions.

Here are the basic points from an outline I use when fielding inbound meeting requests from people I haven't yet met: This is just a malleable template since some answers are provided in our initial phone call, email, or Facebook message.

• The person/people that we mutually know who suggested that we meet
• Contextual outline of the business, initiative, or idea you'd like to discuss
• Relevant strengths/needs we each respectively bring to the talble
• What's 'the ask'? (what you are looking to get out this initial meeting). Please be specific and include a time line
• How do you see us best working together?
• Who else have you approached about this? Feedback garnered thus far?
• Progress to date, and contingency plans if we don't collaborate?

This may seem like a barrier, but for those considerate enough to put their thoughts 'to paper', it makes for a very fecund first meeting. Otherwise, it's a great time saver.

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When jumping online on Monday, I was greeted with the iconic orange
and pink lower legs of the ever lovable BigBird in place of the 'L' in
'Google' . This kicked off a week of Sesame Street Google Doodles
taking the place of the traditional Google pop logo.

Since the first 'Burning Man' Doodle in 1998 that Sergey/Larry put up
in case their servers went down while the were at the Fest, each
Doodle has become somewhat of an (geeky to be sure) event. They've
marked notable days from artists birthdays to Holidays, and every time
a new one appears, tongues are set wagging. The most recent Doodle
prior to the Sesame Street series, a Google bar code Doodle signifying
Bernard Silver's invention, even made CNN (which isn't saying much
these days), many tech blogs, and was a trending topic on Twitter for
most of October 7th.

To date, there's been no consideration offered for the parties
featured in Doodles. Call me a cynic, though, but with their core
business being advertising, and them having the top spot in all
internet traffic, one has to believe that these Doodles are simply
conditioning for the impending site takeovers and sponsored Doodles.

I welcome and encourage your ideas (including other potential logo examples)
and feedback.

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Many people will be fiddling around with Lists, the newest shiny twitter feature for the first time, today, so it seemed an apropos launch date for 'Make a List Monday' and the related twitter hashtag, #malm

There's plenty of commentary already on the how's and why's of creating them, clever use cases, and the impact list will have on Twitter, so I'll just cover the intent and context of 'Make a List Monday' and #malm.

The hope is that each Monday, my followers, your followers' followers, those on my lists, and those on the lists of those on our lists, take a second to consider their inbound and outbound twitter channels, and share their unique perspectives with others in the form of a new list to suggest.

Much like Follow Friday #ff, I'm hoping #malm becomes a helpful way to learn about new people, communities, channels, and topics on twitter via these lists.

Also, in the case of #ff, less is more with #malm; Rather than simply posting a litany of lists you've created, there's more immediate and ultimate value in selecting one or a few, and adding the purpose and/or rationale behind the list(s) to your fellow followers.

Since each twitter account is currently limited to creating 20 lists, I know the intrinsic ceiling that we'd hit if users actually strictly made and shared a new list each week. Rather than having March 15th as the apocalypse for our nascent idea, I hope it just serves as a helpful and fun reminder each Monday to share a list (and include #malm).

To walk-the-walk and not just tweet-the-tweet, I just created my newest twitter list, and will be sharing it in a tweet with the #malm hashtag, post haste.

Look forward to learning your feedback. Thanks in advance!

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