Ed Dale has mentioned that you should be getting ideas. But, since we're into social networking - not nessesarily being entrepreneurs, it's not our job to find markets so much as it is to find ideas within our specific area of interest.
Here's an example:
Steven: ok, now what i dont get is, we're supposed to have 10 ideas
Steven: about what? lol .. he said he wants us to think up 10 ideas for the challenge
Jame: oh... well, you're gonna have to think out of the box for that one, like
Jame: whats 10 getting-popular things that have to do with your kind of music that you could use to promote yourself with
Jame: for the rest of us its 10 niche-markets
Steven: ?
Jame: kinda different there, but the concept is the same - like, amps
Jame: people into your music might be into getting certain things done to their amps, or might want advice for what amp for x-kind guitar
and since you use x-type guitar your one of the only people actually putting advice out there for what amp to get with x-type guitar and how to use it
James: that's one idea
So, it's 10 different ways you can reach people. Ideas are for what "niches" are available to you - where a niche is any keyword that people are interested in. amps-x-type-guitar is an example of a niche keyword (music, guitar), but it might also be mccain's-obama-britney-paris-ad (politics, news) or trout-fishing-hooks (entrepreneurial market).
The idea is that niche is specific - you could never, EVER get any attention if you main focus was "guitars" - and you were trying to get people's attention by say, teaching people how to do different things on guitar and showing off your music. You've got to get specific.
Now keep scrolling down (if your on the blog) - and read the post prior to this one that I also posted today.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
What To Do With All These Tools...
First things first - To get google talk working in google desktop, download gtalk and then run it - and then double click on the name at the top - it will dock in your google desktop.
Concern - "I have all these tools but I have no idea how I'm supposed to use them yet"
No worries - A lot of these tools you won't know how to use until days 10-20.
Here's what you should do right now:
The challenge begins at 5pm California time tonight (technically 12am, the first of august 5 hours behind us) and there's a tv show kick off at www.thirtydaychallenge.tv.
I will be here today and tomorrow to start the challenge with you guys, but on the 2nd I go to camp.
You will be able to reach me via text or twitter at 10-11pm every night. I don't get much service up there (and I'll be busy dealing with 8 5th graders from 6am-9pm daily), but when I turn on my phone at 10 I'll get all your twitters & text.
So since the challenge is starting, just make sure you've joined our friend feed room, the four of you are following everyone on twitter (SonicAssault {NOT "mephitboy"}, AlexShahparnia, daveysilent, Kernelboy, JCMO, and Ed_Dale), and that you have this blog and our friend feed room added to your google reader.
And try to grasp the concepts of this video if you havent seen it yet: http://is.gd/152t
I'll be on vent and gtalk.
James
P.S. If you've got anything newsworthy, or you see a common concern, post on this blog- and just sign your name at the end of your post. For anything else you want to share with the team, post it to the friend feed room.
P.P.S. - Group meet up tonight - at my place and on ventrilo - I'll send a tweet out about it in a couple of hours.
Concern - "I have all these tools but I have no idea how I'm supposed to use them yet"
No worries - A lot of these tools you won't know how to use until days 10-20.
Here's what you should do right now:
- Goto friendfeed, make sure you have an account, search room: socialnetworkingchallenge.
- Once in the room, click on "share something" and share all the accounts you've set up so far.
- Click on the feed button in your flock browser and add the feed to your google reader.
- And for bonus points... while you're on this blog right now, click feed button and add the blog to your google reader.
The challenge begins at 5pm California time tonight (technically 12am, the first of august 5 hours behind us) and there's a tv show kick off at www.thirtydaychallenge.tv.
I will be here today and tomorrow to start the challenge with you guys, but on the 2nd I go to camp.
You will be able to reach me via text or twitter at 10-11pm every night. I don't get much service up there (and I'll be busy dealing with 8 5th graders from 6am-9pm daily), but when I turn on my phone at 10 I'll get all your twitters & text.
So since the challenge is starting, just make sure you've joined our friend feed room, the four of you are following everyone on twitter (SonicAssault {NOT "mephitboy"}, AlexShahparnia, daveysilent, Kernelboy, JCMO, and Ed_Dale), and that you have this blog and our friend feed room added to your google reader.
And try to grasp the concepts of this video if you havent seen it yet: http://is.gd/152t
I'll be on vent and gtalk.
James
P.S. If you've got anything newsworthy, or you see a common concern, post on this blog- and just sign your name at the end of your post. For anything else you want to share with the team, post it to the friend feed room.
P.P.S. - Group meet up tonight - at my place and on ventrilo - I'll send a tweet out about it in a couple of hours.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Introverse & Extroverse - Finally Complete.. read the first 2 sentences for team news
The challenge is starting soon! Get to the friend feed lesson in pre-season (tv show automatically comes up when you click the package, then there's 2 instructional videos on the right) so that you can start sharing your stuff on friend feed! I'm going to let you GUESS the name of our friend feed room.
...and about that friend feed package... you know how I said ^ that tv show automatically comes up? That's what the last blog post was about. It's very important to understand the concept in there.
The rest of this post is mostly for Dave & Alex (and Steven) - but if you'd like to discover alittle bit about your personality, you can read it too.
So without futher ado - I present the finished version of my theory. I will be locked in my own head NO MORE!
Completing the Distinctions: Introverse & Extroverse
Specific Problem to address: introversing and extroversing at the same time.
Introverse: Having Thoughts (sourced from you or others) that you control-by-interpretation (as in, you control your thoughts since all your thoughts have to be filtered through your brain - you interpret them, you have control over them... or at least most of them.)
example: thinking about work... or thinking about philosophy... etc.
Extroverse: Doing (or flowing); to what extent depends on what you have to work with.
example: listening to music... or eating a great meal... meditating... making love... etc.
Describing someone as introverse or extroverse: Which they prefer to do more
intverse [---------------------------] ext (continuum)
Describing someone as introvert or extrovert: Do they think before they talk (in general more quiet) or do they talk-TO-think (in general more expressive)
intvert [---------------------------] ext (continuum)
There are 4 types of people:
Introverts that prefer an introverse (Bernice) (Dave & Alex's friend... i think? this is her?)
Introverts that prefer an extroverse (Shawn) (Fuller)
Extroverts that prefer an introverse (James) (me)
Extroverts that prefer an extroverse (Jared) (not you Kernel..)
I think introverts and extroverts are more or less locked into that distinction: It's part of their personality. Like anything else though, everyone talks to think and thinks before they talk at times. It's behavioral.
I think introverse and extroverse generally varies more on the situation, but preference can be linked with personality as I described above.
Problem: Trying to get out of an introverse by thinking about it-
Think about this for a second. Based on the distinction introverse, is this a working strategy?
And if other's encourage you to get "out there" more, you would naturally think about how to do that if you were in an introverse (like your in "think mode"). So for people who perfer introversing, it's easy to get locked into it. Like being trapped in a bubble.
Answer: Extroverse
Solution: See all thoughts for what they are: thoughts. Don't expect them to stop - you're a machine that cranks out thoughts continuously (hence the "get locked into it".) Just don't pay attention to them - by paying attention to something else.
You can't ignore them without doing something extroverse. You can't "just try to stop thinking". What'd be left? You'd be sitting there with nothing and that nothingness would get filled with thoughts. Instead, one must start doing or flowing- with something that doesn't require the chatter. Something like listening to a good song passionately, meditating, etc - but you'd have to embrace it. The more you embrace doing, the faster you "un-embrace" thinking.
Hence the problem with extroversing and introversing at the same time.
...and about that friend feed package... you know how I said ^ that tv show automatically comes up? That's what the last blog post was about. It's very important to understand the concept in there.
The rest of this post is mostly for Dave & Alex (and Steven) - but if you'd like to discover alittle bit about your personality, you can read it too.
So without futher ado - I present the finished version of my theory. I will be locked in my own head NO MORE!
Completing the Distinctions: Introverse & Extroverse
Specific Problem to address: introversing and extroversing at the same time.
Introverse: Having Thoughts (sourced from you or others) that you control-by-interpretation (as in, you control your thoughts since all your thoughts have to be filtered through your brain - you interpret them, you have control over them... or at least most of them.)
example: thinking about work... or thinking about philosophy... etc.
Extroverse: Doing (or flowing); to what extent depends on what you have to work with.
example: listening to music... or eating a great meal... meditating... making love... etc.
Describing someone as introverse or extroverse: Which they prefer to do more
intverse [---------------------------] ext (continuum)
Describing someone as introvert or extrovert: Do they think before they talk (in general more quiet) or do they talk-TO-think (in general more expressive)
intvert [---------------------------] ext (continuum)
There are 4 types of people:
Introverts that prefer an introverse (Bernice) (Dave & Alex's friend... i think? this is her?)
Introverts that prefer an extroverse (Shawn) (Fuller)
Extroverts that prefer an introverse (James) (me)
Extroverts that prefer an extroverse (Jared) (not you Kernel..)
I think introverts and extroverts are more or less locked into that distinction: It's part of their personality. Like anything else though, everyone talks to think and thinks before they talk at times. It's behavioral.
I think introverse and extroverse generally varies more on the situation, but preference can be linked with personality as I described above.
Problem: Trying to get out of an introverse by thinking about it-
Think about this for a second. Based on the distinction introverse, is this a working strategy?
And if other's encourage you to get "out there" more, you would naturally think about how to do that if you were in an introverse (like your in "think mode"). So for people who perfer introversing, it's easy to get locked into it. Like being trapped in a bubble.
Answer: Extroverse
Solution: See all thoughts for what they are: thoughts. Don't expect them to stop - you're a machine that cranks out thoughts continuously (hence the "get locked into it".) Just don't pay attention to them - by paying attention to something else.
You can't ignore them without doing something extroverse. You can't "just try to stop thinking". What'd be left? You'd be sitting there with nothing and that nothingness would get filled with thoughts. Instead, one must start doing or flowing- with something that doesn't require the chatter. Something like listening to a good song passionately, meditating, etc - but you'd have to embrace it. The more you embrace doing, the faster you "un-embrace" thinking.
Hence the problem with extroversing and introversing at the same time.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Most Powerful Thing Yet....
Okay, you guys have to watch this if you haven't already: http://is.gd/152t
It's the thirty day challenge TV show talking about friend feed. 21-22 minutes into it he starts to talk about how you can use friend feed to search for comments, and this is powerful because...
YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE WANT!
What people are looking for - what they find interesting - what everyone likes ... etc.
So you can find out what people want, and then give it to them... so people will basically follow you because they know you only give good stuff because you know exactly what they're going to like and want. It's a win-win situation, and it's VERY powerful.
Watch this video: http://is.gd/152t
It's the thirty day challenge TV show talking about friend feed. 21-22 minutes into it he starts to talk about how you can use friend feed to search for comments, and this is powerful because...
YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE WANT!
What people are looking for - what they find interesting - what everyone likes ... etc.
So you can find out what people want, and then give it to them... so people will basically follow you because they know you only give good stuff because you know exactly what they're going to like and want. It's a win-win situation, and it's VERY powerful.
Watch this video: http://is.gd/152t
Thursday, July 24, 2008
How To Join The Team
You *officially* are on the team if you're signed up for the thirty day challenge and your twitter shows up over there on the left.
Here's the How To:
1. Read the "TEAM INSTRUCTIONS" (you can search that term at the top left)
2. Sign up for the thirty day challenge with my link: http://tinyurl.com/5mxvvh
3. Sign up for a twitter account at twitter.com and ask a team member to add your twitter to the blog (I find it's hard to add yourself... cookies or something?)
Do those things and your part of the team! Make sure to get all the preseason training while your at the thirtydaychallenge... the challenge will take about 1hour a day to get the learning, starting August 1.
I've set this all up for you because I'll be gone basically July 25 to August 9. But, I'll be getting your twitter messages to my phone whenever you update twitter (Aug 2-9 my phone will mostly be turned off) so I'll be keeping up to date and in touch.
Here's the How To:
1. Read the "TEAM INSTRUCTIONS" (you can search that term at the top left)
2. Sign up for the thirty day challenge with my link: http://tinyurl.com/5mxvvh
3. Sign up for a twitter account at twitter.com and ask a team member to add your twitter to the blog (I find it's hard to add yourself... cookies or something?)
Do those things and your part of the team! Make sure to get all the preseason training while your at the thirtydaychallenge... the challenge will take about 1hour a day to get the learning, starting August 1.
I've set this all up for you because I'll be gone basically July 25 to August 9. But, I'll be getting your twitter messages to my phone whenever you update twitter (Aug 2-9 my phone will mostly be turned off) so I'll be keeping up to date and in touch.
New way of tracking twitter news
Instead of having to log into twitter to update the news, you'll now just post to your own twitter whenever you want something to go on the blog.
Thanks to Dave for the idea - if you're on the team, your twitter feed will show up on the blog. This means you can see what all team members are up to by jumping on the blog.
Thanks to Dave for the idea - if you're on the team, your twitter feed will show up on the blog. This means you can see what all team members are up to by jumping on the blog.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Get Emailed whenever someone posts to the blog.
1. Log in to the blog with username "socialnetworkingchallenge".
2. Goto "Settings", then goto "Email"
3. Add your email address after the last one. Make sure you email is comma separated from the one before it.
That's it. You'll get emailed when new posts are made to this blog.
2. Goto "Settings", then goto "Email"
3. Add your email address after the last one. Make sure you email is comma separated from the one before it.
That's it. You'll get emailed when new posts are made to this blog.
TEAM INSTRUCTIONS - You can also see this by logging into gmail with name "socialnetworkingchallenge" and the same password
I'm setting up our blog with blogger, which you can use to see the team's newest twitter messages (aka NEWS), our friendfeed (aka videos and new items), and latest blog posts by our team's members (...and more social media stuff, too).
Our blog is the central hub for our communication, news, new stuff, and shared information. It's the team's home, if you will. And as you're probably aware, this isn't a normal thirty day challenge team - we're all doing our own thing. So this is just a way of having your questions answered and getting help when you need it. The main reason your here, though, is to do the thirty day challenge - so the team is just extra stuff that you may choose to participate in... but no one's expecting you to (I'd argue that it's a good idea...)
You can post on the blog. Blogger works with google, so you can log into google and as long as you don't log out of google you can just type blogger into your search engine and, when you arrive, you should already be logged into the edit-it area. If not, you can log in at blogger.com with the same account information. Note that if you log into google you can check the team's email, google reader, and other google tools.
POSTING TO TWITTER: Twitter is "mini-blogging" or news for the team, and it'll be syndicated into our blog. It's like a news feed for what's up.
If you want to post short-news to the blog, just log into your twitter and type a tweet. Make sure your twitter has been added to the blog.
POSTING TO FRIEND FEED: Friendfeed is an all-in-one hub for all social media events going on.
We have a room in friend feed specifically for our team. You'll see in the pre-season training that Ed Dale highly encourages using this as a medium for all our social media stuff. You can even get our friend feed room on your facebook.
It's very easy to share stuff - and you can share your social media items (they automatically update - so if you share your youtube videos, the room will see it whenever you make a new video on youtube or favorite a video) OR you can type messages and post to the room that way. If the blog is our hub of information, this would be our hub of showing off and seeing what everyone's up to.
All you have to do is have a friend feed account, goto rooms and search for the "SocialNETWORKINGChallenge" room.
And our friend feed plugs right into the blog, so you don't have to goto friend feed to see what the room's up to - you can see it at socialnetworkingchallenge.blogspot.com
Other Stuff:
Instant Messaging: You can get gtalk on your main google page, on your gmail page, or download it to your computer - this is our instant messenger for the group (I think it's on friend feed too... meaning it's on our blog too...)
Voice Communication: We use ventrilo (download: ventrilo.com) because we pay for a vent server (it's been around from the gaming days): IP: vent6.gameservers.com, PORT: 4229, no password.
I probably missed stuff, but it'll all be on the blog.
James
Our blog is the central hub for our communication, news, new stuff, and shared information. It's the team's home, if you will. And as you're probably aware, this isn't a normal thirty day challenge team - we're all doing our own thing. So this is just a way of having your questions answered and getting help when you need it. The main reason your here, though, is to do the thirty day challenge - so the team is just extra stuff that you may choose to participate in... but no one's expecting you to (I'd argue that it's a good idea...)
You can post on the blog. Blogger works with google, so you can log into google and as long as you don't log out of google you can just type blogger into your search engine and, when you arrive, you should already be logged into the edit-it area. If not, you can log in at blogger.com with the same account information. Note that if you log into google you can check the team's email, google reader, and other google tools.
POSTING TO TWITTER: Twitter is "mini-blogging" or news for the team, and it'll be syndicated into our blog. It's like a news feed for what's up.
If you want to post short-news to the blog, just log into your twitter and type a tweet. Make sure your twitter has been added to the blog.
POSTING TO FRIEND FEED: Friendfeed is an all-in-one hub for all social media events going on.
We have a room in friend feed specifically for our team. You'll see in the pre-season training that Ed Dale highly encourages using this as a medium for all our social media stuff. You can even get our friend feed room on your facebook.
It's very easy to share stuff - and you can share your social media items (they automatically update - so if you share your youtube videos, the room will see it whenever you make a new video on youtube or favorite a video) OR you can type messages and post to the room that way. If the blog is our hub of information, this would be our hub of showing off and seeing what everyone's up to.
All you have to do is have a friend feed account, goto rooms and search for the "SocialNETWORKINGChallenge" room.
And our friend feed plugs right into the blog, so you don't have to goto friend feed to see what the room's up to - you can see it at socialnetworkingchallenge.blogspot.com
Other Stuff:
Instant Messaging: You can get gtalk on your main google page, on your gmail page, or download it to your computer - this is our instant messenger for the group (I think it's on friend feed too... meaning it's on our blog too...)
Voice Communication: We use ventrilo (download: ventrilo.com) because we pay for a vent server (it's been around from the gaming days): IP: vent6.gameservers.com, PORT: 4229, no password.
I probably missed stuff, but it'll all be on the blog.
James
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