Social Media – Bradley Holt

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Decentralization as a Strategy

March 8, 2011 – 11:23 am

The other day Chris Dixon tweeted: strategy != tactics. Having a website was strategic in 1995, seo was strategic in 2005, mobile is strategic today. Chris is likely talking about startups here (since startups are the focus of much of his writing). If you’re not sure what the difference is between a strategy and tactics, [...]

By Bradley Holt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged CouchDB, Decentralization, Diaspora, Mobile Computing, Privacy, SEO, Startups, Strategy, Ubiquitous Computing | Comments Off

Common Good Vermont

December 23, 2009 – 4:18 pm

The other day we launched the first iteration of the Common Good Vermont website. From the about page: Vermont (pop. 621,000) is a small, tightly knit rural state proud of its independent spirit and high levels of civic engagement. Vermont’s independent sector (3000+ organizations, $4 billion annual revenue) plays a primary role in the delivery [...]

By Bradley Holt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Cloud Computing, CommonGoodVT, Folksonomy, Found Line, Vermont, Web syndication, Zend Framework | Comments Off

Project Retrospective

October 6, 2009 – 5:40 pm

When Peak Organic Brewing Company started in 2005 they asked us create their website (yes, it’s a table-based layout — this was 2005, get over it). When it launched the website included (and still includes as of this writing) the ability for you to “share your peak experience” with other users of the website by [...]

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Tagnabit Usage

June 15, 2009 – 4:56 pm

It’s been two weeks since we launched tagnabit. I want to share some information about how people have been using tagnabit. Some of the most popular tags used so far include: btv BTV is the airport code for Burlington, Vermont (where we are located). This tag is pretty heavily used on Twitter to represent our [...]

By Bradley Holt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged acmedia09, acmne09, BTV, btvsmb, champ400, cxage, iranelection, PHP, tagnabit, tek09, Zend Framework | Comments (1)

Tagnabit Launched!

June 1, 2009 – 11:37 am

Last night we announced the launch of tagnabit, a social media aggregator. It’s “a service that aggregates tags from popular social media websites. It is useful for conferences or other events. Participants can use a shared tag across Twitter, Flickr, Technorati, YouTube and Delicious. Tagnabit then aggregates this content in one place.” The idea originally [...]

By Bradley Holt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged acmne09, CSS, Folksonomy, Found Line, jQuery, tagnabit, tmdvt09, XHTML, Zend Framework | Comments (1)

ACM-NE Conference

May 26, 2009 – 3:43 pm

Last week the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region (ACM-NE) had a conference here in Burlington, Vermont. Organizers of the conference encouraged participants to use a shared tag, acmne09, on sites such as Twitter, Flickr, blogs, YouTube, and Delicious. We created a website for the conference (similar to what we had done for Town Meeting [...]

By Bradley Holt | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged acmne09, BTV, Folksonomy | Comments (2)

TMD VT Social Media Recap

March 4, 2009 – 5:19 pm

Wow, thank you to everyone who participated and helped make Town Meeting Day Vermont ’09 a social media success! In the spirit of openness, I wanted to share some things that Jason and I learned from the tmdvt.net/09 experiment. First of all, some disclaimers. It’s important to note that we were just one small part [...]