The Common Discourse and You

The week in Tweets
Instead of writing, I spent time with @pigsinspace, @joshuamneff, @mstabbycat, @roycekitts & @jokrausdu – and I don't feel guilty at all! # @mstabbycat Drugs? in reply to mstabbycat # @mstabbycat Whiskey and drugs?

The week in Tweets
1148 words in 30 mins of writing. My fingers hurt. #iwaswritingnowImnot # I wrote 15 minutes – 411 words – today and that is all I'm capable of doing. It's bedtime – I don't care if it is 8:30…. # Powered by Twitter Tools

Wavin’ at you!
I got the embedded wave to work on my new Wave page! Finally!! I’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks (off and on) with no success, but I upgraded both Wordpress and wavr (the plugin I’m using to make this work) and today it finally appeared (only for those with Wave accounts, I think…). The real trick to it was getting the right google wave URL (in my case it consisted of id=”googlewave.com!w+2_yvJou8O”). When you copy the URL from Google, it urlencodes that + sign to a %252B, so you have to change that to +, remove everything before the googlewave.c

The week in Tweets
*makes note to auto-send @stevelawson emails randomly throughout the week* # @MegCanada hot tea, honey, maybe some lemon and the whiskey of your choice. Drink enough of it and you'll forget you have a cold! in reply to MegCanada # GWave invites – DM me with your preferred email address if you still don't have one, but want one. 10 left…

Social Media in the Enterprise – ITEC Lunch session
*SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT A TREND*- it’s a fundamental change in the way companies reach their audiences. Overview of social media landscape – what tools are out there. Blogs – lots out there, becoming mainstream news (Huffington Post); case study about the Direct2Dell site that came directly from a blog post that coined the term “dell hell” and was picked up within 2 days by NY Times and Business Week. Microblog – Twitter has 4.5 Million users; uses of Twitter: live discussion, reinforce your brand, promote content, speed linking, content syndication (hi everyone who is reading this because I tweeted my n