I was recently reading My Thoughts on Posterous as a Lifestreaming Platform at the lifestreamblog.com by Mark Krynsky. Have you ever thought about your own interactions with multiple social tools?
I’m interested in aggregation, optimization, and ease of use when sharing my own ideas and stories. But I also understand and enjoy the specific social media platforms and know that the benefit of those features exists when directly accessing the platform.
Sweetcron is an open source php sysql favorite that I highly recommend. I use it as a news feed for my own industry. Posterous seems to be a great way to share posts in a way that drove my interest in Ping.fm.
Enter Storytlr!
Storytlr seems to be a good fit for an individual that wants to have a clean lifestream.
Import your web 2.0 life.
Pick your sources and they will appear as a lifestream directly on your site. We currently support the following services:
Post anything you want
In just a few simple steps you can update your status, share a song you liked, give your opinion or link to an interesting site.
It’s probably much more difficult for a large publisher to handle the economic downturn as they can’t quickly adapt and make changes to a rapidly changing market. That’s not to say the economy has been kind to small and midsize publishers. But, many of the smaller magazine publishers have taken strategic actions to preserve their brand.
I still can’t help thinking about the many talented people from these large publishing conglomerates that will lose their jobs. Plus the vendors that will lose an important client as more top tier publishing and media companies fall.
The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. (RDA) today filed voluntary, pre-arranged petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. As previously announced, this move is part of an agreement in principle with the majority of our senior financial lenders to reduce our debt and better position our company for long-term success.
During my weekly meeting with my staff today, I wondered if some of the talented editors, writers, and creatives would join together to start new magazines to replace the fallen media giants… Perhaps we need a special program to help these people get right back into the saddle and keep doing what they do best.
Let’s help these professionals network and communicate. Please support your colleagues in getting involved with social media and meeting the partners that will put them on the right track to new jobs or their own publishing business. If you know of good networking sites for journalists, reporters, editors, writers please share them and I’ll pass these links along.
Publishers are facing new challenges and new opportunities. We work with print magazine publishers that wish to leverage their magazine advertising and digital magazine brand. From publication print & website design to the overall magazine publishing business strategy, we want to help publishers to secure their niche.
I will be installing this Wordpress URL shortening plugin Link Shortcut on my blog.
Got this and some additional info on the 301 (vs 302 redirect) update from Rae Hoffman at http://outspokenmedia.com. My first install had something error and I did not receive the plugins settings but did get a flush of info on my admin page. So without further delay, I give you “How To Easily Create Your Own URL Shortener With WordPress.”
Since it’s entirely possible to shorten our own URLs and I’m not super technical, I went in search of a WordPress plugin that could help me along in the process and came across Link Shortcut. This appeared to have all the functionality I wanted (you can define random strings or generate your own, you can specify a sub-folder if you want and you can set a default length for the URL to ensure you don’t go over the “Twitter max”.)
There are many different views of just about everything. Not that the other perspepctives are wrong; just different. But some vantage points combined with knowledge and experience can yield more information or insight into the situation.
