Feedback sought – live blogging

 Politics  1 Response »
Sep 202011
 

I decided to keep a running commentary on Twitter of the Republican presidential debate that was broadcast on CNN last week. I had an absolute blast doing so, but I am sure that the number of posts I made during that period annoyed some of my followers. At the very least the volume of tweets that cross posted to my Facebook page temporarily broke the link between the two.

There is another debate on Friday night and I have every intention of doing a running commentary again. My question, for those of you who would like to follow along, is how should I do so? Should I set up a live blogging plugin here and have the notices cross-posted to twitter and Facebook? Should I set up a special Twitter account specifically fir my live blogs? Should I do exactly what I did last tine and let anyone who doesn’t care to read my commentary ignore, filter, or drop me as they choose? Should I take sone other path I have not, as of yet, considered?

I’d really like some feedback on this because I loved doing it but I don’t want to do so if it’s going to annoy mire than entertain.

Thanks, all!

Edit – So this is how it would look if I did the live blog here.

10:53 PM

I keep promising this is going to be my last attempt to fix this, don’t I? I’m gonna get sent to Twitter Jail before I even start live blogging. Would it help if I said I really, really thought that maybe I fixed it now?

10:42 PM

Yeah, ok….So that wasn’t entirely the last post. Sorry. I’m really done now. This is working. Maybe not quite how I wanted it to, but considering the fact that I’ve never programmed in PHP before I’m pretty happy with the results.

10:38 PM

Bloggy bloggy live blog post. Running out of things to say to get to 140 characters. May resort to Lorum Ipsum text soon. Or, perhaps, bacon ipsum. Bacon is delicious. I miss bacon.

10:36 PM

One more test here before I call it quits. That last link was kinda ugly, and some of the stuff I just read seemed to indicate that it might not always work. One last shot at getting it “just right”

10:23 PM

Yeah, that didn’t do anything. Trying something different. Hopefully it will work this time. Yeah, that would be totally awesome. Have I hit 140 characters yet? Probably.

10:17 PM

Hey, that almost worked, but the ID was for the liveblog entry and not for the actual post so the link was broken. Trying again with a different parameter. Let’s see what happens this time.

10:12 PM

Hey all. Sorry for the pointless update, but I’m trying to see if the changes I made to the Live Blogging plugin work. If I’m successful in this, it’s going to cut this down to 110 characters and add a link back to the original post. Let’s hope it actually works.

10:04 PM

Ok, Done playing with this for the moment. Take a look at the format and let me know what you think, gang. Thanks.

09:57 PM

Oh. Hrm. So it appears as though it’s the Live Blogging plugin that’s disabling the Add To Any section. Ah well. I’d rather have the live updating.

09:55 PM

Unlinked from Twitter while I play with this some more. Unfortunately it seems as though removing the Add To Any links from the live blog posts also disables it from the post itself.

09:52 PM

Just found some code that supposedly fixes the update issue. Let’s see what happens.

09:20 PM

Ok, well that’s lame. There’s no link back to the post if it exceeds the character limit.

09:19 PM

So this is what happens when I tie the live blogging plugin with my Twitter account. The first 130 characters or so are posted to twitter along with a link back to the live post.

09:09 PM

Unfortunately, it’s not auto updating on the post like it’s supposed to.

09:09 PM

This plugin is amazeballs!

 Posted by Michael C. McGreevy at 8:04 pm  Tagged with: , , , ,

What is it worth?

 Social Media  1 Response »
Oct 172010
 

I follow a lot of folks on Twitter who, like myself, are very active in the social media community. These people, again like me, are very passionate about the importance of social media in the business world and about how valuable of a tool it can be to promote your business. Unfortunately, many of them seem to fall flat on their face when it comes to coming up with a valid justification as to why a business needs to be involved in social media. In fact, they very frequently tend to take offense at the very nature of the question. Which is, of course, a sure fire way to guarantee that the business you’re trying to convince to get into social media never well.

Return On Investment, kids. It’s not a dirty word. Get over it. The whole nature of taking offense at the idea of justifying why a business should spend money on your idea without being able to quantify where it will turn into profits for them is absurd. It is tantamount to an artist claiming that people “just don’t get” their work. It’s a cop out. Sure, it’s all fine and dandy that you might be doing something unique and awesome in your mind, but if you can’t prove to someone that giving you money for doing so is worth their time you have no business trying.

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 Posted by Michael C. McGreevy at 3:53 pm  Tagged with: , , , ,

Being broke

 Personal Updates  5 Responses »
Apr 032010
 

Earlier this morning I ran an application on Facebook known as UnFriender. As the name should obviously imply, the application compares your current Friends list to previous snapshots and lets you know who has dropped you from their list since you last checked.

I do this because I am a horrible combination of narcissism and insecurity. I want everyone to like me, and when someone doesn’t I get all angst-ridden trying to figure out why. I blame my lifelong struggle with obesity. I’m sure I could explain that, but it’s easier to just say “It’s because I was fat as a teenager and nobody loved me” and leave it at that.

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 Posted by Michael C. McGreevy at 5:08 pm  Tagged with: , , ,
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