This week I’m launching an e-commerce site to accompany Francophilia, the social network for francophiles I founded. It’s running on the Zlio platform. It has some limitations, but I’m pretty happy to be able to offer my francophile members one-stop shopping for French and French-themed products! Just found out my personal blog, frogblog, is ranked… [Read more…]
April 30, 2009
Mark Morford on Facebook: Old girlfriends, lost loves, long-forgotten friends, high school sweethearts, band mates, roommates, old nemeses, lots of former cheerleaders turned born-again Christian megamoms, and everything in between. All those old connections, those lives and chapters and periods of my life I thought I’d left behind so cleanly, so decisively, way back when?… [Read more…]
April 27, 2009
This is not a ladies luncheon, girls. No cucumber sandwiches. Instead, the Women Who Tech 2009 TeleSummit offers a dozen different panels on hot topics moderated by women who know what they’re talking about (from SlideShare, BlogHer, YouTube, MoveOn and more). Panels include Launching Your Own Startup, Social Networks and Diversity Barriers, and Innovation and… [Read more…]
April 22, 2009
Oh lucky me! I discovered Ykone, a sizzlin’ French startup last night when I saw their presentation at the Keiretsu Paris investors’ meeting. It’s a social network built around fashion brands that has really taken off in the couple of months since they launched. Delicious site (visually and in terms of interactivity), impeccable concept, an… [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
You must get separate personal and business Twitter accounts. Stop being lazy and do it now. Stan Berteloot, Marketing Director at KDS, gave the same bit of advice during his talk, “Follow Me on Twitter” at the STC France annual conference, where I gave a keynote address recently. This is what’s happening: Francophilia, my startup,… [Read more…]
March 24, 2009
I like teaching and public speaking because I love opportunities to share things that I find exciting. I gave my latest talk, The Sum of Your Parts: The Importance of Online Identity, as a keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication – France. The theme of the conference was Connecting… [Read more…]
February 22, 2009
Web 2.0 was all about social and free, kind of like the Haight in the 60s. We tossed our inhibitions to the wind and let it all hang out. Alas, groovy people, the pendulum is swinging, as it inevitably must do. A sure sign: I had to pay WordPress money to change the CSS of… [Read more…]
July 13, 2009
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