Tweet Just finished reading Activism 2.0: Creating Casablanca in Copenhagen, The Fresh Air Center by Chrissie Brodigan. It is an interesting look at what happened (or didn’t) in Copenhagen and more specifically at the Activism 2.0 techniques of TckTckTck’s Fresh Air Center. I love the technology side of just about anything and social activism + [...]
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Tweet I came across a cloud backup tool the other day called backupify. It runs in the cloud and backs up your cloud. Very cool. backupify is pretty easy to setup. It acts like most social aggregators like Friendfeed, however it then backs up your data rather than syndicating it or providing a single feed. [...]
Tweet Google Feed Server is an open source Atom Publishing Protocol server based on the Apache Abdera framework. Google Feed Server provides a simple back end for data adapters, which allows developers to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a database. Google Feed Server also provides the Feed Server Client [...]
Tweet Just doing some reading and organizing thoughts on Twitter Hash Tags. Seems like hash tag management is becoming a regular occurrence in every day business. Companies should be establishing, disseminating, and evaluating hash tags for their company. Seems like at a basic level a company should establish and regularly use # hash tags for [...]
Tweet My Firefox browser opens all my default tabs when it opens and gives me quick access to all my core web applications. One of these is Google Voice. I am still working Google Voice into my overall platform. It isn’t quite there. Today I was thinking about some good uses for it beyond receiving [...]
Tweet IT tends to scoff at cloud computing. But obviously, there’s a fear factor, too. If IT is too caught up in other projects to have the resources to launch some new initiative, the business side may threaten to use a cloud service instead.
Tweet I was just going through my Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, and Feedburner stats. I noticed in my Google Webmaster Tools that I come up number 7 in Google Search for Enterprise 2.0. So I went to Google and typed it in. Sure enough I’m number 5 for Enterprise 2.0. I even beat out [...]
Tweet Always on the watch for quality file management tools to suggest to people. Nomadesk virtual fileserver acts just like a hard drive, storing important documents in one place with local and remote access from a PC, Mac or iPhone. You drag and drop your files into a virtual fileserver and files are automatically encrypted, [...]
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Tweet I am doing a lot of research around using social tools in event and conference planning right now. I am researching usage of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social tools in event presentation and speaking at the moment. Planning, preparation and then ultimately presenting a session or keynote at a conference is hard enough. [...]
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Tweet I strongly believe in the cloud, and more specifically in Amazon‘s approach to cloud computing. I constantly battle people on my decision to use the cloud for my core IT infrastructure. It allows me to scale my infrastructure as needed and gave a completely new face to my IT strategy and operations. I can [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 6 – Restored Faith in the Clouds
Tweet I was really excited when I got this email response on my ticket from Amazon Web Services: We’ve reached out to the Amazon EC2 team and here are the next steps. In order for us to proceed, we’ll need to setup DNS PTR records for EIPs (incl xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) under your AWS account. Hence could [...]
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Tweet I woke up one morning and got an email from a project manager. The original email from a client had a returned email with the following email server response: Remote server replied: 550 5.7.1 … Mail from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx blocked using Trend Micro RBL+. Please see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup?ip_address=xx.xxx.xxx.xxx We were black listed. So I went to [...]
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Tweet Sending large amounts of email and ensuring they get received requires a lot of work and you need to make sure your mail framework is setup correctly and is healthy. This takes a lot of work and maintenance. First off I reserve 11 IP addresses with Amazon Web Services. I reserve these 11 IP [...]
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Tweet I needed to send a large amounts of email. We are talking 500,000 to 1 million emails in each send. These are emails being sent to encourage event attendance or interaction, so they need to go out quickly. The powers that be wanted to have emails go out in 24 hours. In the past [...]
Continue reading about Email in the Amazon Cloud Part 2 – Scaling Email for Large Blasts
Tweet Amazon is a great place to really take care of business when it comes to IT. First order of business at my new job last year was to take care of a really troubling “hostage” situation with their current server co-location contract. My boss said, “move us to the cloud”. I had used Amazon [...]
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Tweet I was going through the different areas of my Google Wave research this evening. It was time to learn more about the Google Wave Federated Protocol. I just haven’t had enough time to keep reading on the subject. So to update my research: Google released their open source version of the Google Wave Federation [...]
Tweet I was playing with Google Wave tonight. I am curious to see how I can use it. I keep thinking about using Google Wave as a content management system (CMS). I am starting with the basics. First I started a new wave and filled it with some dummy content. Then using the Google Wave [...]
Tweet I really like this contact information on this site I was researching tonight. The colors don’t really appeal to me. It is the fact that their contact information is clearly: Available on every page at the bottom. Provides Email, Phone, Twitter, Instant Message Links newsletter information Links to blog These are all mission critical [...]
Tweet I am doing a lot of research in applications and tools that are available out there for the event and conference industry. I am always evaluating broad categories of event technology, but recently I am focusing on: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google Wave There are limitless ways you can use these social and 2.0 tools [...]
Tweet While playing around with Google Fusion Tables tonight I came across the Open Data Kit (ODK). Open Data Kit (ODK) is a suite of tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data. The project’s goals are to make open-source and standards-based tools which are easy to try, easy to use, easy to [...]