Mobasoft, LLC http://mobasoft.com/wordpress Internet Applications & Design Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en © mbailey@mobasoft.com () mbailey@mobasoft.com() 1440 Internet Applications Design mbailey@mobasoft.com No no http://www.mobasoft.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/orange-crush-5242006/images/logo.jpg Mobasoft, LLC http://mobasoft.com/wordpress 144 144 10 Ways to Fake Transparency http://mobasoft.com/wordpress/2008/11/20/10-ways-to-fake-transparency/ http://mobasoft.com/wordpress/2008/11/20/10-ways-to-fake-transparency/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:22:34 +0000 mbailey http://mobasoft.com/wordpress/?p=392 Hey there - thanks for checking this out - you are on your way to making it to the top, so why not take a bunch of short-cuts and get there quicker!?

Face the facts

Maintaining a Social Network takes a lot of time.

Transparency is one of the key methods to ensure that your efforts are noticed and well received.

Who has time for that?

Here are 10 ways that you can automate the process.

  1. Use Twitter (you should already be doing this) and hook up an automated follow-bot which will send a (Direct Message (DM) to new followers.
  2. Publish goals as if you think positive all the time.
  3. Obscure your message with shiny distractions. “Win an iPod”, etc.
  4. Distribute skewed facts which people will accept on face value alone. Spin, spin, spin.
  5. Write a book or a blog as if you are the expert, and never interact with your readers.
  6. Act as if everything you are saying is already common knowledge.
  7. Take advantage of and exploit the insecurities of others.
  8. Create the illusion of a problem then step in and fix it publicly.
  9. Praise everyone who agrees with you and ignore or block those who don’t.
  10. Ask for help or solicit ideas as if the customer is part of the process, but of course, you can never implement those good suggestions. Just keep doing things your way.

By the way, if you are going to attempt circumvention of being human, with all the positive and negative that it entails or you are always pushing a message, or constantly talking about your product/service - please feel free to never contact me.

Michael Bailey
Thought Leader and Serial Entrepreneur
"Cultivating the landscape of the online multimedia community"
Cell Phone: 816-517-6487

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YES

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Seems there’s a large group of overly sensitive people out there.

Here’s the video from YouTube and below is the text of what is said in the advertisement.

It’s a woman talking, as if she’s thinking outloud and I don’t see anything wrong with it at all.

The rants going around all seem to be centered around the “baby carrying” portion of it, as if Motrin is somehow saying that they are stupid for doing it, or that they only do it to be “in fashion” (most of them admit that it IS a fashion statement).

Anyhow, I just wanted to take the effort to “put it out there” that I liked the ad, it got people talking (it’s Ibuprofin, how else would that be exciting?)

Wearing your baby seems to be in fashion.
I mean, in theory it’s a great idea.
There’s the front baby carrier, the sling, the shwing, the wrap, the pouch and who knows what else they’ve come up with
Wear the baby on your side, your front, go hands free.
Supposedly it’s a real bonding experience.
They say that babies carried close to the bod tend to cry less than others.
But, what about me?
Do moms that wear their babies cry more than those who don’t?
I sure do.
These things put a ton of strain on your back, your neck, your shoulders.
Did I mention your back?
I mean, I’ll put up with the pain, because it’s a good kind of pain.
It’s for my kid.
Plus, it totally makes me look like an official mom.
And so, if I look tired and crazy, people will understand why.

MOTRIN, we feel your pain.

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One of the items which I’ve scribbled on the whiteboard is listed under a heading of “Conversation Studio”

  • Video
  • Images
  • Text
  • Audio
  • Links

I’ve glanced at it more than a few times and then I finally saw it - VITAL

Those are the 5 things which we all use in some form or another in our online conversations, which are really not much different than real world conversations, except that most of them are not done in real time.

So, as MobaTalk Beta comes closer to launch, the 15 second pitch is this:

MobaTalk is an online Conversation Studio. It combines the five elements which are vital for online communications. Video, Images, Text, Audio, and Links.

The next 10 days will be a marathon race for me as I continue coding the site. I am anticipating the beta launch to take place as I demo the service on October 29th, 2008 at the Highlight Midwest event.

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I guess that I was incorrectly referred to as “Michael Perry” in the video.
While that is a cool name, I’ll stick with my own, Michael Bailey ;^)

I think that they did a great job putting together the screencast.

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MobaTalk Multimedia Messaging | Video

Add your own video commentaries here
http://mobatalk.com/twitter/recorder/?add=debate08

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MobaTalk in iTunes, originally uploaded by mobatalk.

The RSS Feed is almost 100%. More testing and then it will be live. You’ll be able to subscribe to all videos from an individual, or subscribe to any hashtag of choice and keep up to date on the video conversation.

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MobaTalk Multimedia Messaging

Another piece of the puzzle successfully tested out - now bringing all of the goodness online so that everyone else can enjoy the simplicity.

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GoogleReader, originally uploaded by mobatalk.

Right now, it doesn’t look like the fullscreen mode is going to work in Google Reader, but I’m going to keep working on it. At least the video embeds and plays within the reader, so that is certainly a great first step.

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clintus_ipod, originally uploaded by mobatalk.

Working on the MobaTalk RSS Feeds for iTunes and Google Reader

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For anyone who clicks on that link from the Twitter stream, it will take them to the direct view page on MobaTalk, where the video will play automatically.

On that direct view page, there is now an embed code for that video, so anyone else can easily copy it and use it on their site.

Here is one such example.

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A few more pots of coffee and it will be ready for some alpha testing. :^)

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I’d like to see something like this in a poster format, or even something better, like on the side of a 20-story building ;^)

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