Monthly Archives: November 2007

I need your help with my Net.Finance presentation.

Responding To Bloggers - Playing On Their TurfFor my upcoming Net.Finance presentation Responding To Bloggers – Playing On Their Turf I am focusing on the pros and cons of responding to bloggers when they write about your company.

I have a few examples of bloggers writing about their experiences with and opinions about their bank, credit union, credit card company, or other financial services provider, but am looking for more. Do you have examples of:

  • a blogger letting an FI have it on their blog
  • a blogger praising an FI
  • a company responding to a blogger
  • a company who SHOULD have responded but didn’t

Examples don’t have to be FI related, but it would help if they were. I have never heard of a Dell Hell happening in the FI world, but it’s just a matter of time.

If you have an example please either leave a comment here or email me at william (at) azaroff (dot) com.

Thanks for the help. I’ll credit you in my presentation if I use your example.

Give One Get One – the $200 laptop.

I’ve been loosely following the $100 dollar laptop for a while now. And now there’s a campaign where you buy one for yourself and one for a child in need in the developing world.

During Give One Get One, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.

In reality, the $100 laptop is actually $200, but it delivers on most of what was envisioned. The NYTimes has a great review of the laptop.

Here’s where you can find out more about the Give One Get One program, and sign up for your own laptop.

A whole ‘nother level of online community.

I love Open Source software. The self-organizing of people to collaboratively create something they feel is worthwhile is an amazing model.

I’ve written a lot about ChangeEverything.ca here, but I have never written much about Drupal, the platform CE was developed on. This week we launched a small bit of new functionality to the ChangeEverything community called nudge. It’s a fairly simple application:

…you use it to tell the creator of a change or the writer of a blog post that you’re inspired by what they’re doing… and you want to hear more. Click it, and ChangeEverything.ca instantly sends that person an email – including, if you want, a personal message from you.

But the thing I love most about it is that when we wanted to add this feature to the site, there wasn’t a module available that did this. So after custom-developing “nudge” for the CE community, we released it free to the world as a module for any Drupal site.

Now that’s community!

UPDATE: Here’s a post on the subject from Social Signal.