Tammy Green » Archive for May 2008
How can you consolidate when your friends & contacts are strewn far & wide?
On the Web, everyone upgrades at different rates. You find a service that works, a site that’s comforting, a go-to bookmark that you can lay hands on and you stick with it until you hear about something better, something that solves a problem you didn’t know you had, something cool that your friends are trying and you want to be a part of it. And then you move. Sorta. You can’t completely ditch the old stuff or … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology Shift
Reach out to those who follow
Before I got pinged by The Onion, it never occurred to me to reach out directly to my followers on Twitter or to say hello directly to the folks I follow. I think it’s particularly important when you don’t have a relationship with the other person. Makes things seem less like spam. I’m going to get off my lazy, virtual behind and start being more social with my social media. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Twitter
Overlapping Channels
I write blog posts here that get tweetscanned to twitter that then end up on friendfeed where people comment. The friendfeed feed gets pushed back to Bloglines where I can then read about what people thought about the original post. The comments don’t stay with the original post. Some of the twitters are captured in direct messages to me, others are duplicated with the post in friendfeed, and other twitters aren’t attached to the entry … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life, Technology Shift
Parrot Cage
Chicago Bites Podcast #107
We took advantage of the long holiday weekend to mosey down to the South Shore Cultural Center’s student-run restaurant, Parrot Cage. We didn’t see any parrots, but we did enjoy some good food. Listen to the show. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Dining in Chicago
This is the kind of weather I want
C’mon Chicago! Scrape together a few photons and deliver! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Odds & Ends