New Comm Biz

Housekeeping

I’m a bit of a tinkerer. Not on cars or electronics or anything that requires tools. I was actually referring to the blog.

I regularly make changes and actually still have a list of changes I want to make but I thought I would point out some of the changes and warn you of some of the changes I have planned.

Sidebar Widgets

I’m always moving around the stuff in my sidebar. I’ve switched out My Twitter for My FriendFeed. This will include Twitter as well as all my other activity. To pull this off the way I wanted it, I actually ran FriendFeed through Tumblr and pulled that feed. You can check out my Tumblr site at www.tacanderson.com.

I added a MyBlogLog widget to the sidebar. If you’re not signed up for MyBlogLog I highly recommend it.

Thanks to the recommendation of Adam Metz my posts have been republished on Social Media Today (SMT) for at least 6-8 months. It’s a great place to keep a pulse on what’s going on in the social media space. I’ve just added their widget to my sidebar. The widget shows a rolling scroll of the latest posts on SMT.

Badges

AdAge 150. I’ve recently had my blog added to AdAge 150 list. Now don’t get too excited, the list has over 600 blogs listed there and I’m only somewhere n the upper 400’s. Since being added to the list though I’ve moved up from the low 400’s. I’m usually neck and neck with Bob Garfield’s AdAge blog and my friend/hero Mike Manuel. It’s just fun to watch the day to day fluctuations and a great place to find new blogs.

Michael Brito keeps promising a Conversations Matter badge but I haven’t seen one yet

The Book

I have a whole list of changes to make to my current pages, esp my *about* pages. However I did add one page to the list; The Book: Social Media Trifecta.

This is something I started over a year ago. I even got Peggy Jordan to start offering classes on business book writing. Unfortunately I made the poor choice of trying to do this while I was in my MBA and, at the time, starting off on my own business.

Now that I’m done with my MBA I’m supposed to have a bunch of free time (yeah right). I plan on finishing the book. In true blogging fashion you’ll see occasional posts that are pieces of the book. You’ll see a new category in my tag cloud for the book.

Now I don’t know what I’ll do with *the book* if once it’s finished. I’ve been really intrigued with the rise of Print On Demand and even wonder why first time authors go through a publisher, they don’t seem to do anything for you unless you sell out your first run.

I may try and pitch a publisher but it seems like writing a query letter is just as hard as writing the book. I don’t know that I want to take the time. Ultimately I may just keep *the book* online, it may never graduate past a series of blog posts, who knows. Really I just want to do it to solidify my thinking and for the experience of doing it.

Plugins

I have a whole list of plugins I want to try out. Most of them are related to FriendFeed and re-aggregating all that wonderful content back into the blog. I’ve even toyed with a slight blog redesign of the blog. Basically I’m debating weather I want to go to a 2 column blog or maybe just widen the two side columns a little (some of my widgets don’t fit well in there).

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