I was looking for a good place to get T’s done for the group and I ran across Cafepress.com. You should really go check it out. They have all kinds of stuff you can create. I tried to do some versions of shirts we might want to use. I think I like the off white with the brown logo best personally. Does anybody have a preference? Pat can you help me out by doing a PNG of both the brown and the black logo? The final product will be much better that way.
Citizen ads are new to me. Stacey mentioned them to me so I searched and found this business week article about them she had mentioned. Seems this latest fad exploits the idea of having your product/community zealots produce your advertising. Interesting, I wonder if this will really take off? Is it a really something people should consider or not. Any opinions?
I noticed that TechCrunch was using this, should we add it? They have a write up on AddThis you may want to review as well. If we want to add the AddThis widget to our site, the customization tool is here. We can try it out here and see if we think it will be something to add to the RV.Net Blog.
Benefits of AddThis Widget are:
Jose sent a link to Pick-n-Click Ads in to me. It is a great example of a company attempting to take advantage of the long tail of advertising. This site appears to allow you to pick and click to create your own ads in the following media:
Stacey at Ehlert would like to explore creating something like this online for marketplace ads in their publications.
What if people could fill out, choose a couple of creative layout options, pick which of our magazines they want to run in, put in a credit card and get an ad placed. And the ad uploads to the appropriate magazine ftp site, the production coordinate grabs the ad and it runs. They could have the option of running the ad in print and online. Since Boating Industry and Powerboat seem to be the two mags with the most marketplace ads it would be great if we could test something with those two sites in particular.
Any ideas how we could pull something like this off?
Chuck, Stacey and I meet with Fullscreen Publications a couple days ago. This is the second time I have reviewed their product offering. The biggest difference between what they had 2 years ago and now is:
Their product is absolutely amazing. It would be perfect for a magazine, event, Tour business or even a product like CSP. Go to the site and click portfolio and the watch. Hot.
I thought this tool looked very cool and compelling. They have many kinds of snapsohots you can add to your site. Click here and scroll down to see all the options. The configuration tool is here.
Can we add this to our our blog, article server and user contributed content server at AGI? What about the directory sites, etc . . . . What do you guys think? How can we use this? Can we integrate it with the Forums?
www.gasbuddy.com has Javascript you can add to do a zip lookup for gas prices. There are several options available to add links to your site. Props to Stacey for sending this on. Check out the GAS Temp page too – it rocks. After Chuck went to the site to get up to speed on it he noticed they had several scripts that would enable embedding. See below for the zip look-up example:
Imagine this integrated on sites where people are doing trip routing and we know the zip they are traveling to. We could display the price of gas. Or even more simply, just show the top 10 place to get gas in their local neighborhood. Pretty cool huh. Chuck is going to look into the top 10 and let us know.
I subscribe the MIT Journal so if anybody wants to read the full article let me know. Excerpt from the article below:
“There is a new wave of business communication tools including blogs, wikis and group messaging software — which the author has dubbed, collectively, Enterprise 2.0 — that allow for more spontaneous, knowledge-based collaboration. These new tools, the author contends, may well supplant other communication and knowledge management systems with their superior ability to capture tacit knowledge, best practices and relevant experiences from throughout a company and make them readily available to more users. This article offers a paradigm that highlights the salient characteristics of these new technologies, which the author refers to as SLATES (search, links, authoring, tags, extensions, signals). The resulting organizational communication patterns can lead to highly productive and highly collaborative environments by making both the practices of knowledge work and its outputs more visible. Drawing on case studies and survey data, the article offers managers a set of ground rules for implementing the new technologies. Continue reading »
