Rob Cottingham

30 Jun 2008

No stats from FeedBurner yesterday or today? You’re not alone.

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FeedBurner’s this great, free service that lets you dramatically improve the power of your site’s news feed, with everything from promotional tools to customizing tweaks to a very handy statistics package. (Still waiting to see it integrated with Google Analytics, mind you.)

If you’re using it, though, you may have noticed an anomaly: few or no visitors on Sunday, and none today. Maybe you panicked, and started checking to… Read more...

25 Jun 2008

The following is a light posting advisory

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Category: Everything Else

I’m having a little surgery tomorrow (highlight this text if you want to know the gory details: it’s a laproscopic procedure to correct a double hernia), so there probably won’t be a lot coming out of this blog for the next day or two.

Thanks, and see you soon!… Read more...

24 Jun 2008

John McCain learns to use a computer

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Catch Kris Krug’s photos at The Art of Giving: June 26, Vancouver

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Mi amigo Kris Krug is one of the five artists featured in The Art of Giving, an exhibition and silent auction on the theme of charitable giving. 20 per cent of any purchases you make go to the charity of your choice, which means you get a) some lovely art, and b) some good karma.

It all goes down on Thursday, June 26th at 6:30 p.m. at… Read more...

23 Jun 2008

links for 2008-06-24

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21 Jun 2008

links for 2008-06-22

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19 Jun 2008

links for 2008-06-20

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NetSquared: Alex on social media and conversation as the engine of change

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Category: Social Signal

Jed SundwallJust a heads-up: there’s a great interview over on the NetSquared web site, where Jed Sundwall (that’s him on the right) talks to Alex about the work we do, and how social media can help organizations join the big conversations that can lead us to a sustainable, socially just world:

I used to do a lot of policy consultation online and I moved away from that because I felt like I was more called to do direct social change work. I’ve since come full circle because I’ve concluded that, at the end of the day, meaningful change only comes from conversation. Conversation is the agent of change. What social media does beautifully is enable large scale conversations across many dimensions—across huge distances, across gaps in time (through asynchronous communication), across personal differences. Those conversations are really key to enabling change. Our challenge is fostering conversations that build social capital.

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