Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Blogging

  • Google Reader and the loss of serendipity

    One of the most critical losses to the blog reading community with the rollout of the new Google Reader is the loss of its internal sharing, something that many of us came to rely on for serendipity. Why? Because in many cases, other people in our Google Reader network found new blogs, new items to share, new and interesting perspectives through what our friends shared. With Reader’s new changes pushing everything to G+, it’s mighty hard now to see what your friends thought was important in the blogs they read daily.

    Library Clip Art

    Let’s take a brief moment to talk about the power of serendipity. Serendipity is loosely defined as finding something that you did not expect to find, a happy accident, and a pleasant surprise. Serendipity is more than just an accident, however – it’s a related accident. Here’s a good example: when you’re at the library, browsing at the shelf, trying to find the book you were looking for, you notice that there’s a series of books on either side of it that are even better than what you’d come looking for. That’s serendipity. Another simple example: you go to a conference to hear a popular speaker and wind up standing at the lunch line right next to them. Serendipity is sort of an accidental upgrade of your circumstances.

    That’s what made Google Reader such a powerful engine of serendipity. You weren’t just finding random blog posts on random things. You were finding things that other people who you followed for a reason were finding, and it was all related.

    So what do you do if you still want your daily dose of serendipity? On the consuming side, you’ll want to check out the topical categories at sites like Topsy and Alltop. Both of these provide you with some level of discovery, some level of serendipity. I’ve started using the Alltop marketing feed in Flipboard as a way to randomly find related items, and it’s better than nothing.

    On the publishing side, you’ve got a few options if you want to help encourage serendipity. On Twitter, I publish a feed every morning of the top 5 items that I thought were worth paying attention to called #the5. You can monitor this simply by searching for #the5 in Twitter search. I also publish a weekly newsletter that you can subscribe to which will round up and wrap up the week’s #the5 entries. You can also save and share items in Instapaper as well, and then permit Facebook, Twitter, or email followers to find your shared items that way.

    Most of all? Share a blog you’re reading every week with your friends, by whatever your preferred sharing method is, but tell a friend about a blog you’re reading that you think they might not be (but should be). Your friends will get to know you, you’ll be fostering serendipity, and who knows? They might share something back that will change your morning reading list forever.

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  • On recycling blog posts

    I’ll gently disagree with Chris Brogan’s idea about recycling blog posts yesterday. Go read it if you haven’t.

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    Here’s why this is a bad idea. Senior master instructor Ken Savage of the Winchendon Martial Arts Center likes to compare life to a wheel on a wagon. Each year, the wheel turns around and you’re back to where you started. What we often fail to take notice of is the distance that the wheel has traveled in that year. Each year, we’re further down the path than the year before. Each birthday that rolls around is another year of travel, and a lot happens in that year. You learn a lot. You change. You grow. The wagon is in a different place, too. The terrain is different, the environment is different.

    11 years on the path

    If I write a blog post in, say 2008, about something “evergreen” and then just repost it as is or link it up without changing it, I’m giving short shrift not only to my readers, but also to myself. By doing that, I’m failing to acknowledge that a lot has happened in 3 turns of the wheel and who I am today in 2011 should have even more insight, even more value to add.

    If you want to recycle older stuff, especially stuff with no interactions or comments on it, take just a couple of minutes to polish it up, rewrite parts that have changed, and add in anything that you’ve gained from your experiences as the wheel has turned. Then take your old post, redirect it to preserve any inbound link juice, and let the world know about your newer, more updated perspective on things.

    When you think about it in terms of real world recycling, the exact same thing happens. The old is crushed into raw materials, melted down, impurities extracted, and then reformed into something new. Don’t just hand someone a “used bottle” blog post – truly recycle it and give them something fresh.

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  • Finding connections in blog comments

    Borrowing an idea from Tom Webster‘s social media monitoring, let’s take a look at your blog’s comments today.

    Start with WordPress (any blogging software will do, however). Open up your comments section and look at only approved comments, as I assume you de-spam your comments regularly before approving them.

    Comments ‹ Christopher S. Penn : Awaken Your Superhero — WordPress

    Open up your text editor of choice and begin copying and pasting the last 10 pages of comments into it. If you’re feeling more sophisticated than copy/paste, open up MySQL and do an export of the post text column only to simplify the next steps.

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    Dedupe it if your software allows you to dedupe by line. Remove any obvious formatting or data-only lines and you should be left with a large text file of your recent blog comments.

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    Now fire up Wordle and feed this large chunk of text into it:

    Wordle - Create

    Two questions for you:

    1. Do the largest words in the cloud express an intended focus of your blogging? That is, if you blog about marketing or social media, are the comments you’ve received indicative of that? If not, your content may be somewhat off target.

    2. Are there words or word associations in the cloud that you didn’t expect to find in there? For example, in my cloud above, I found that people was unusually prominent and it turns out that the word people is used very heavily when referencing how to build social networks like Google+.

    Got a blogger you respect? Run their comments through the same mechanism and see if you have anything in common with their audience. Here, for example, is Chris Brogan:

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    So, what are people saying about your blog posts?

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  • Disaster Rice Tabbouleh

    One of the best disaster prep foods I’ve always found to be reliable is good ol’ brown rice. It’s dense, full of nutrition, keeps reasonably well (not as good as white rice, but you sacrifice nutrition for longevity), and is relatively easy to make, especially with a rice cooker.

    In advance of Hurricane Irene, in addition to all the other sensible disaster prep stuff, I put on an extra large pot of rice as well. Now that the hurricane has blown through, I have a lot of cooked rice on my hands. Luckily, there’s a great rice salad that you can use the leftovers with, using ingredients familiar to anyone who knows the middle Eastern dish tabbouleh.

    Disaster Rice Tabbouleh

    Ingredients

    • 1 large pot of cooked brown rice
    • 1 large cucumber
    • 2 medium onions (medium = tennis ball size)
    • 1 medium carrot
    • Basil
    • 1 teaspoon Salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
    • 1/4-1/2 cup lemon juice
    • Jalapeno sauce or other spicy sauce

    Directions

    • Chop up all the vegetables into small cubes.
    • Mix in a large bowl with the rice.
    • Add in the rest of the ingredients except the jalapeno sauce.
    • Stir.
    • Add in jalapeno sauce to preferred spicyness.
    • Let sit overnight.
    • Eat.

    This makes as little or as much rice salad as you want. It’s very tasty and super easy to serve. It’s best cold, which also means that it’s great for taking to work. It works on the same principles as bulgur wheat, so any recipe for tabbouleh can also use brown rice instead of the wheat.

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  • How to market your blog

    I was delighted and excited to share some of my ideas, strategies, tips, tools, and methods for how to market your blog at Boston’s WordCamp 2011 event. As the video can be tough to see in spots, I’m providing the mindmap for the session, so that if you attended (or even if you’re just curious), you can follow along on your own device and not have to rely on squinting at the screen. The video is below as well.

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    How to Market Your Blog
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  • How to distill content curation for real impact

    How do you cope with the flood of information that swamps your inbox, blog reader, and mobile device every day?

    How do you find and isolate all the good stuff, separate the wheat from the chaff, and use the information you’re receiving to actually move the needle?

    Alembic distilleryThe same way that you get the good stuff out of crude oil, weak brews, and perfume herbs: distillation. If you slept through high school chemistry class (or were interested in an entirely different kind of chemistry, as many of my peers were), distillation is the process of heating a raw material to extract a chemical based on its boiling point, then condensing the distilled product separately. Cognac, for example, is distilled wine from high-quality ugni blanc grapes. It’s distilled twice in copper pots, then aged for two years before being sold for consumption.

    The same process that works for cognac works for content curation. It’s not enough just to subscribe to a bunch of blogs and read a bunch of tweets, not if you want to take all of the information you receive daily and make it useful. Here’s the process I use on a daily and weekly basis; feel free to modify or adapt it for your own needs.

    Reeder on the iPad

    I start every day with my blog reader on the iPad. I’ve subscribed to about 2500 different blogs across a spectrum of topics, and each day I hit the main topic areas, such as economics, marketing, social media, development, etc. I skim through rapidly, looking for bits of information and data that catch my eye, read into articles that do, and then share them via Google Reader. I do this specifically on the iPad because it lets me focus better on just reading the news with no other distractions.

    Google reader shared items

    If that were all I did, I’d still be swamped with information, since I share 20-30 different articles a day, if not more. The first distillation pass is what I cull out for #the5 on Twitter every day. Of those 20-30 articles, which 5 of them are the most worth sharing? Some days, that’s easy. Some days, that’s a very tough call. But forcing myself to distill out only 5 different pieces of information makes me focus on the stuff that’s truly important to me, stuff that I’d want to really remember. One of my general rules of thumb for stuff in #the5 is that if I didn’t learn something, I don’t share it.

    #the5 distilled

    The second pass of distillation occurs weekly, as I prep each Tuesday night for a recording of Marketing Over Coffee. I actually subscribe to my own #the5 tweets as a separate RSS feed so that I can see just the most important articles of the week that I thought were good enough to share. I’ll star key items in that feed so that I have a very compact list of stuff that should be headline discussion topics and then bring those with me every Wednesday morning when John Wall and I record the show.

    The final stage of distillation, the stage where I know something has got to be kept or else, is when I take distilled items out of this process and put them into reference tools like Evernote or Instapaper, ensuring that I have them on hand for when I need to reference them later.

    This three-phase process wasn’t automatic or something immediately contrived. It just evolved that way as the amount of information thrown at me increased, and this was a handy way of filtering it down until only the gems were left. It’s probably not right for you and your information processing style, but I hope it gives you some ideas and inspires you to try multiple levels of content curation to distill out the things that you really need or want to remember and learn.

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  • Weekend Foodblogging: Spicy Bacon Onigiri

    If you’re not familiar with the traditional Japanese dish onigiri, you’re missing out on one of the handiest portable foods there is. Onigiri date back at least to the 11th century, if not older, and were a food used by many Japanese, especially in the military, since they stored and traveled well. Onigiri are traditionally rice balls filled with some salty food to act as a preservative, such as pickled plum or bonito, but since modern technology has given us refrigerators and such, the need to restrict fillings to preserved items is somewhat less mandatory.

    Onigiri - The First

    This recipe is, as far as I know, original. That’s not to say that putting bacon in things is an original idea, but this application isn’t something I found at a restaurant and tried to imitate. It’s fairly straightforward to make and is wicked tasty.

    Filling:

    • 2 strips of finely chopped, crispy thick-cut bacon & the rendered fat
    • 1 tablespoon of finely chopped fresh parsley
    • 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
    • 1 tablespoon of panko Japanese bread crumbs
    • 1/4 teaspoon or to taste Sriracha chili sauce (adjust depending on how spicy you like spicy)

    Onigiri:

    • 1 full pot of cooked, cooled short grain white rice, ideally sushi rice
    • 1 package of nori seaweed sheets

    Instructions:

    • Cut the nori in half diagonally with a pair of scissors.
    • Take all the filling stuff, put it in a bowl, and stir very well.
    • Form rice “patties” with your hands that are about a half inch thick and about 2 1/2 inches across.
    • Take a small spoonful of the filling, put it on one patty, put a second on top, and mould into a ball or triangle shape, depending on how traditional you like your onigiri
    • Fold the triangular piece of nori around the rice ball when you’re ready to eat. (don’t put it on in advance or it gets soggy and nasty)
    • Enjoy!

    The filling is something that should be a little sparse but spread across the tongue as you chew; that’s why I make this with two rice patties instead of the traditional method of putting an indentation in the rice ball and filling it. Using two flat patties lets the filling spread out a little more and be more present in every bite.

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  • Who are you reading?

    Photos from Dallas, TexasI’m always on the lookout for new sources, new points of interest, new things to research, new ideas. I would imagine you are, too. I’d like you to leave suggestions for who you’re reading in the comments below. Here’s the criteria for who I’m looking for you to share:

    • The original content test. As much as I love Techcrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, etc., I’d much rather subscribe to the sources they read. Who is writing original stuff? Share them below!
    • The first test. When you open your blog reader, whose blog do you go to first? Share them below!
    • The blind retweet test. Who are some people who are so worth reading that you automatically retweet their stuff first, then read it, because you know they are always providing ridiculously good value? Share them below!
    • The dark horse test. There are some folks who are pretty well known, like Chris Brogan, Mitch Joel, Avinash Kaushik, Jason Falls, etc. that most people know. Who don’t we know but is writing at the same level of value and quality? Share them below!

    If you include a link (please do), there’s a good chance the comment will be moderated by Disqus, so I’ll approve it manually – thus, don’t hit submit comment a whole bunch of times if nothing appears. I’m out of the office today, so come back at the end of the day to see all the comments, or if you folks leave a phenomenal list, I may take the time to publish it as an OPML file for everyone.

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  • Who you want to be

    Take a few moments now to look at the following digital properties.

    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Your blog
    • Google (for your name)

    Do you see the person you are?

    Or do you see the person you want to be?

    If you don’t like what you see, if you see someone who isn’t inspiring to you or others, if you see someone who complains too much or doesn’t say enough of value, then make the conscious choice to change this now.

    Who do you want to be? Who are you supposed to be?

    Warcraft player

    Imagine a Future You, the person you want to be, the person you are supposed to be. What would you find in their digital channels? Would Future You be tweeting about a lukewarm burger or a cranky flight attendant to an audience of 50,000? (would anyone care?) Would Future You be relentlessly spamming your Fortune 500 executive connections on LinkedIn with random, pointless quotes or repetitive book pitches? Would Future You be waxing poetic about your intestinal bug and its vivid consequences for 2,000 words on your blog?

    Probably not. Future You would probably be a great deal funnier, more noble, more insightful, more helpful, more kind, more gracious, more powerful, more connected, more wealthy, more happy. Take another few moments and decide what things Future You would think, say, write, and do. Make a list of things that Future You would be retweeted for, recommended about, or blogged about, and post that near your workstation, on the back of your phone, on your iPad case, or wherever you do your communicating with the world.

    Here’s the good news. Future You is within your reach right now, beginning the moment you stop reading this post and put your fingers to the keyboard to communicate again. Put away Present You and start communicating with the world as close to Future You as you possibly can each day, and sooner than you think, they’ll be one and the same.

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  • How to arbitrage data and become a leader

    If you’re unfamiliar with the word arbitrage, it means this:

    In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

    If you extend the idea of arbitrage – uneven levels of supply and demand that benefit someone who can transfer supply to where demand is – then data arbitrage is the idea of taking information from information-rich areas and moving it to information-poor areas.

    Old money sign

    If you can develop the practice of data arbitrage, there’s a very good chance you’ll have a valuable, profitable skill that few other people have. Let me give you a couple of examples to jog your brain.

    Here’s a tip I often cite in my Blue Sky Factory email marketing lectures. Suppose you are responsible for your company’s email newsletter. Rather than just guess randomly at what might be a good subject line for your newsletter, why not search for the words you think people would be using on Twitter? Let’s say you’re writing a newsletter about financial aid, which was my old career. Hit up Twitter search and suddenly it becomes clear what people are talking about right now.

    • FennellaMiller: College process almost over , reviewing financial aid
    • ashCiERA: need to go see what my financial aid looking like for the summer.. !
    • jshureb: Bitin’ the bullet and sending back the financial aid letter………………..

    There’s a very good chance people will respond more favorably to the words and language used by their peers rather than by something you just dreamed up one afternoon, which will in turn make your newsletter much more successful. In a very short amount of time, you’re taking data from a data-rich environment (Twitter) to a data-poor environment (your company’s newsletter) and achieving results that other people in the same role do not.

    Second example: maybe you’re responsible for writing blog content for your paper business. You need to know what’s going to get people’s attention. Again, rather than just guessing or slapping together posts randomly, you head over to Quora and see what the hot topics are in paper.

    • Why are legal pads always yellow?
    • Is using 100% post-consumer recycled paper worth it?
    • What sort of things could you do to make your business card look unique, especially if you’re hand-making them?
    • What is the name of the process where a logo or text is pressed into paper?

    People are asking questions, many of which you presumably have the answers to. You’ve got blog post titles and articles pre-written for you based on the questions people are asking, and as a bonus, you’ve got an audience primed to hear the answer once you’ve written it, since you’re answering their question! You’re arbitraging between a data-rich environment (Quora questions) and your blog (no questions), and then back again from your head (professional knowledge) back to Quora (people who want answers). Your blog will have content people are looking for, and as a side benefit, there’s a good chance you will achieve some impressive SEO results, since you’ll be using phrases people actually search for.

    The lesson is simple: look for areas where information is rich and areas where information is poor. Find a way to broker that data between the two areas and at the very least, you’ll become an authority in the data-poor area, if not a community leader. If that community is your target audience, then there’s a good chance you’ll develop plenty of business from it as well, and at no cost other than your time and information-brokering abilities.

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