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How do you encourage your community to welcome new users?

I noticed a ?new? feature on facebook today when I added two facebook newbs as friends today. Although I’ve seen research presented that says it doesn’t matter if someone is welcomed as to whether or not they will come back I’d like to think it doesn’t hurt. And who doesn’t like to feel welcomed?

The Red Sox Win! What it looked like in Seattle.

This was my view from Seattle watching the Red Sox win the 2007 world series with a bunch of screaming sox fans we discovered on Meetup.com at the Spitfire.

What Apps do you Rock on your Phone?

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to “tag” in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I’m going to extend it to “connected applications” that aren’t SMS or voice.

I should stop complaining. I love Google Reader

But today I realized that taking it offline means that it will only sync recently updated feeds. I was hoping to use my flight from Dallas to Seattle to read some items that have been sitting in there for a while, but it only seems to like syncing recent items. You’ll notice the cut-off when you go offline and see your unread item count change.

What I’m Reading and Writing – Testing a WLW Plugin

I have a shared items feed from google reader, but I’ve been struggling with how to share that content more broadly through my main blog feed. I didn’t like mirroring my shared items since it felt like content stealing and I share more than I write, but at the other extreme I don’t generally like blog posts that are links without commentary.

Follow the Community Server Developer Conference Live

Kevin Harder is live blogging Telligent’s Community Server Developer Conference. Check it out.

Are You Ready for Smarter Spenders Bursting Your Bubble?

Is your company, web site, or business model ready for the smarter customer spending habits being created by data transparency? The world of data transparency is one where anyone can access, slice, dice, pivot, and extrapolate on their own about your products is almost here. The cost of doing so, like other commodity driven resources is quickly approaching zero. If your business doesn’t embrace it then you are going to be one of the people complaining about the “bubble bursting” on Web 2.0.