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Tumblr & Product Evolution
I love Tumblr. It is a great service and just works well. But, lately I’ve been thinking of jumping ship. Why? because anytime I want to try something new I seem to run into a wall. When I try to get help, my pleas seem to go unheard.
This got me thinking about product evolutions. How do you evolve your product, especially in the early days, to recruit early-adopters and turn them into your product advocates? How do you turn users into your R&D team or marketing team?
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Article: What's Next?
As I’ve been preparing for Foo Camp I’ve been struggling to define what’s next for me? what excites me? and to a larger degree what is the future of the web?
The more I thought about it the more I got depressed, going from a hiccup in my “master plan” to a full blown professional, er… “crossroads.”
I’ve been struggling with writing this article for over a month, trying to capture my thoughts in a coherent manner. The first version of this article was a 4,000 word essay on everything that I feel is wrong with the web today (which I immediately decided should never be published).
After talking it over with peers, my wife, my mentor, my father—basically anyone that would listen—I tried again.
In this new article I try to capture what I think is missing from the web, why I think I “lost my faith,” but mainly to serve as a personal manifesto, something to remind me what I’m in this for and where I hope to go.
I hope that I won’t be the only one at Foo Camp that feels this way and maybe I’ll find that thing that I somehow lost.
The Decline of the Blog?
Today Greg Hoy Twitter’d:
“I am really noticing people are not posting to their blogs anymore. Like everywhere.”
I tend to agree. Its something I’ve been thinking about for the past year as Twitter and Twitter-like sites have increased in popularity. I’ve noticed as the activity in more presence-posting tools like Twitter increase that number of traditional regular blog posts tends to decrease. It seems that as people Twitter more, they blog less.
I’ve found that it doesn’t take a lot and you don’t have to be big to have the needs of the business overwhelm your thoughts and days. I want to stay as close as I can to my passions.
My response to an email about rebooting Fling Media
As we mentioned on the site, Cyndi and I are a true garage startup, being based out of the garage of our Queen Anne home. Here are the photos to prove it.
My Presentations are Online
I wasn’t able to upload all my presentations to SlideShare until I launched the site. So this morning I’ve been trying to get the bulk of my presentations and workshops on SlideShare as well as my site.
So far I have 11 online with my most recent Over the Air presentation still being converted. I’ve also been trying to add some of my notes and recollections of each event.
I’ve been trying to retire all these slides and create an entirely new format, but in the past I just haven’t been able to find the time. I have a lot more workshops and presentations coming up over the next months and a plan for an entirely new style of presentation, which hopefully I will have completed this spring.
But in the meantime, feel free to use any of the content from any of these past presentations. If you want any of the Keynote files, let me know. I’d be happy to share them with you.
I'm Leaving Blue Flavor
I think one of the exciting things about life is the chance to press the reset button and start over. I believe that any time is the right time to change your life. I’ve been married for twelve years to my lovely wife Cyndi, so that aspect of my personal life has always been a rock. My professional life has been …well an interesting journey to say the least, probably having hit the reset button a little too often.
Today, I embark on the next leg of my journey, leaving Blue Flavor, the incredible agency I co-founded in 2005, to reboot my consultancy, Fling Media.
Why leave such a successful agency and start over? Three reasons: to focus more on mobile, to build more products like Leaflets, but mostly to spend more time with my family.
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