Friends and Readers, I’m going to have to close comments here on the blog. While the Spam Filter does a fine job filtering spam, we’re just getting hammered and it’s interfering with WordPress server ops. Please drop me a line with any comments, though. Twitter works great. JC .
JCShepard.com Top Posts of 2012
2012 marked my first full year with the wordpress.org blog on a self-hosted platform. Y’all visited JCShepard.com a total of 2,600 times last year. September was your favorite month, with 364 hits (average 12/day). Your top posts of 2012 were: Little (Lego) House on the Prairie (Style) Commentary on some really cool Legos. High Google […]
Doing Our Broadband Homework
I met Mark Forseth in 1994, when as Chairman of the Traill County Economic Development Commission Mark hired me as Executive Director to help facilitate economic opportunity in the Red River Valley. TCEDC didn’t limit itself to recruiting footloose branch plants, but focused broadly on preparing communities across the county with a seedbed for growth. […]
FourSquare for Your Square
FourSquare for Business webinar, Thurs 10 Nov, Noon CST. The information superhighway was supposed to knock down the barriers of distance, putting rural communities on a level playing field with our urban brethren. And it has… except where it hasn’t. For every web app that lets rural entrepreneurs compete globally it seems another online trend […]
The Social Web and Disaster Response
Blandin on Broadband Blog noted this American Red Cross survey last year in a blog reflecting on the role of Social Media in the recent riots in England. Are YOU prepared to respond to citizens seeking help by way of Twitter or Facebook? Web Users Increasingly Rely on Social Media to Seek Help in a Disaster […]
iOS WordPress App
Test posting from WordPress iPad app. Altgeld Hall, University of Illinois Urbana Kinda cool, eh? -jc
Originality + Action = #OTA11
[v=k8waqwf1rBA] Innovation is the stuff of legend. Yet we understand so little about the process. Is the creative spirit in our nature or our nuture? Is it competitive or collaborative? Is it the chicken? Or is it the egg? Yes. That’s the answer I took home from the OtA Sessions—Originality and Action thnkfest in Sioux […]
Grassroots Engagement With Social Media
During a fast-paced presentation, rancher Jeff Fowle and organic dairy farmer Emily Zweber outlined how they have used social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and LinkedIn to connect with non-farmers. Both strongly emphasized the importance of the “human element” and the need to be genuine when using social media or else any attempts are destined to fail….
An Intelligent Community Framework
Improved productivity and growth can basically come from two sources: 1. You make more stuff, or 2. You make stuff better. The first option falls into the commodity trap. To overly simplify, there’s probably somebody somewhere on this big wide world that can make what you make, and do it cheaper. The second option is […]
By the way, Company Policy forbids…
I’m working on a marketing project for “real work” and looking now at specific roles Web 2.0 will play among our possible tactics. Actually, I’ve been using this entire website (and a couple other blogs) to tinker with Social Media. Some of that time’s been on company time, most on my own “personal improvement” time. […]
