Breaks the typical advocacy website into its constituent parts — different types of pages have different goals — and lists the most meaningful metrics to look at for each. Really useful!
Digg’s button tutorial doesn’t show you what buttons look like for each set of code. Nor does it include the additional code needed to float your Digg badge to the left (or right) of your blog post text. This how-to does.
Marshall K.’s big-picture meditation on APIs, while ostensibly focused on the business logic behind whether/not to provide an open API, is good reading for anyone considering a small-pieces-loosely-joined approach to architecting web solutions.
I really like the way my fave time-tracking tool, SlimTimer, made use of this new service. Pretty great feedback mechanism, if you’ve got the cojones to really listen to your users.
After trying to track down the details on Flickr’s position on blogging other people’s photos, I finally scored: Stewart Butterfield weighs in on a debate about this very issue.
Tish Grier says: “When a company creates an online community … moderation is necessary to keep the inhabitants of that space safe from stupidity.” Not policing; just presence and attention.
Brogan writes a job description for the community manager role — and I can’t think of 5 other people who’ve worked the role with the vigor and success he’s made of it. “When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen….”
Brilliant service built off twitter API — grabs your “following” list, analyses for likely connections, presents you with a list. Results included MANY people I read in other contexts but hadn’t yet found in Twitter.
I'm Ian Wilker, a web strategist and project manager. I help organizations engage the social web -- the blogosphere, online social networks, content-sharing services, and other emerging media.