jeremyvaught

I feel a bit silly. CommonCraft.com has been putting out these short video clips that explain bits of Social Media, and I see them, I enjoy them, and I move on. Now I’m finally going to subscribe so I see when they come out with new stuff.

So here is the video about Twitter in plain English. Which I found at smcphoenix.com when making sure that tonights meeting is still in the same location.

I have neglected to post this here on my own blog, but Sean Percival interviewed me at Techcrunch 50 at the Seesmic booth about a month ago now.

The interview is largely about how I got hired by Seesmic, and Loic (the Seesmic CEO) commented to me and in Twitter it was a great interview, and a good example of how to get hired.  So thank you Loic, and thank you Sean.

One more note about Sean.  I first met him when he was working at Jason Calacanis‘ Mahalo.com.  He was creating a page on Mahalo about Seesmic, and I had just created the Wikipedia entry about Seesmic, which Sean emailed to thank me so it could be included.  Sean is also a friend of Eric Rice, and Eric speaks highly of him, so it just shiny happy people all around.

I just went to StartupSchwag.com, and was pleasantly surprised to find myself on the home page. And even more exciting! I’m right next to the star of one of my favorite videos. I posted it a while back, but I’m posting it again below the screenshot.

Can’t get the video? Direct link is here:

Hosted on Orange Island in Second Life, the panel was moderated by John Swords, run technically by Jade Lilly, and on the panel with me were, Torrid Midnight, CC Chapman, Stuart Warf & Mackenzie McArdle.

If you interested in what we had to say about Podcasting, Podcasting in SL, the future of podcasting, as well as answering questions from the capacity crowd, check it out at orange-island.com, a Metaversatility project.

Sheila Dee, Evo Terra’s wife, contacted me the other day and talked me into speaking at the upcoming Podcamp Arizona in November. Here is my page :)

We agreed my two topics will be “How I Use Social Media to Make Real Money” and “Is video conversation going to thrive, or fade away?” So I guess I’ll be speaking twice, once each day.

I started a group on Facebook last year called, “New Media.”  It has almost 11,000 members now and some very interesting things are discussed.  Recently a question was asked that I responded to, and I thought it interesting enough to post it here.  It applies to you if you ask yourself, “what should I do with my website to help me professionally” or more simply, “I have a website, now what?”  This is by no means an exhaustive answer, just some quick thoughts on how to get up and going quickly with a plan.  Please dispute anything.  I would love to hear your thoughts, either here or at the group on Facebook.

Terry Reith asked the question,

“I’m a television journalist in Canada and recently taught myself how to build a site. It’s clear to me that the future is online and these are the tools we’ll need to succeed. But aside from strictly being a vanity exercise how might people use their personal sites when they have nothing to sell? I do television and photography and quite happily give it away. My site is www.terryreith.tv. I’d be interested in seeing some examples of what other media people are doing as well.”

And my response:

“To easily update the content, I suggest setting up a blog. They are designed to update quickly, and are search engine friendly. There are many ways to go. My favorite is installing wordpress.org on my own site. But there are also hosted solutions like wordpress.com, blogger.com and typepad.com.

“Back to putting your content on your website. The advantages are displaying your work is to get credibility for it, become known outside of your initial influence, and then basically whatever you want it to do. :) There are many ways to raise the awareness of your blog. An effective one is to comment on blogs where your potential audience is reading. Don’t spam the comments with an advertisement for your site, but a valuable and useful response, with a simple link will bring visitors wanting to know more about you. Additionally, to bring trust to who you are and your message, it takes time. So don’t expect to drop in, make a comment or two, and magic will happen. Trust takes time. (this goes for your site as well, update as often as you can. No less than twice a month, but more than once every day or two can drive readers away)

“These are what I have for you just off the top of my head, hope this helps!
Jeremy Vaught
[A] King of New Media”

I keep forgetting to post this, but as you can see, I have finally done it. And I stuck the landing.

So this is me when I visited San Francisco and Loic (founder and CEO of Seesmic) interviewed me for the now defunct Seesmic Du Jour. Matt Galligan from SocialThing is in the first part, then I come on at about 2:20. Please ignore my gum chewing.

Early last year, when there was such a thing as an active secondlife.reuters.com I attended an event by Reuters with a lot of assistance by the company I worked for at the time, the Electric Sheep Company.

So the significance here is I was talking to Mel Mcbride and I was reminded of this, and that Reuters used the pictures I took of the event in-world for their story, and some pictures even made it to the main site at Reuters.com.

You can see the story here if you are even remotely interested.

Not so long ago I picked up an Asus eeepc 900. And so far, me likey. I’m not going to say a lot about it now, just to say that it is great when on the move, has great battery life, and is a wonderful addition to my full size laptop.

As a side note, you may notice I am at a Starbucks, and now that I have switched over from the T-mobile wifi to the AT&T wifi, I can have multiple devices online on the same login. It is handling my two laptops and my N95 being connected. Big ups to ATT for that.

I’m forgetting SXSW faster than I want to, so I’m capturing my memories here before they are gone forever. And admittedly, this could be a lengthy process because things happen that remind me of a moment at SXSW… and that’s when you will see it here. (hopefully)

So first. Might as well talk about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. You have likely heard of the exciting interview of Zuckerberg by Sarah Lacy. I was there, but left about half way, the interview was exceedingly boring up until that point I left. In hindsight, my exit must have sparked the revolt. :) I was sitting along the wall, near the door where Mark walked in. Here is a pic I took.

So later that day I was running around with my friend Brent Spore from iboughtamac.com and Justine from TastyBlogSnack.com. We were talking around deciding what to do, and Justine informs us we need to go see AJ and leads the way. When we get where we are going, we walk in the back of this crazy bar that looks like a former rock quarry, and sure enough, there is AJ. (who I later learned is @garyvee’s brother, who I also learned that @garyvee is kind of a big deal, even though I had never heard of him). So sorry to say this AJ, but more importantly, there was Kevin Rose and Mark Zuckerberg chatting. We were there all of 30 seconds or so and Kevin wanted out of there, (I later learned, nothing to do with us, they had plans) and was waiting for Mark to follow. But, we held him up. :) First, I took this pic…
And then we watched as Justine tried to ask Mark what his favorite snack is. Mark first refused to be filmed on video, which was pretty odd, since earlier in the day Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com had no problem with it. And I may be naieve, but at this point, Bezos is a tower of internet power, and Zuckerberg has to still bend his head way back to see Jeff way up there. Regardless, Zuckerberg refused the video, highly doubting that people actually answer Justine’s question about what their favorite snack is, I took this pic, and we were off.