Last night a filter saved my life…
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 20th, 2006
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I’m having trouble with Gator news.
Learning to navigate through a new program or service is bad enough, cramming all that information into a single day is asking too much of myself.
My eyes are bigger than my mind.
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Is St. Francis online??
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 19th, 2006
Tagged as: Social Media
I’m still in awe over my Umbria trip. There’s always going to be a natural affinity between a Brit and that region of Italy. Hey, I’m no different the the next guy!
This week has been a sort of awakening. Seth repeats Nike’s Mantra and he’s right. When you do start something, the rest just can’t stop itself from falling on you.
On the one hand I’m still finding my way around the blogosphere, carefully tiptoeing from blog to blog in a vain attempt to see life from the outside. On the other I have learnt that sometimes, people you are taught to fear are often your greatest allies.
High profile social media is like the main event at a Las Vegas a boxing event. Yet for every testosterone-filled thug bulldozing his (so far not her) way through other people’s reputations, there are just as many willing to stick their own necks out for you.
Umbria was magical, but the blogosphere is even more surprising.
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Umbria and the long tail of tourism
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 16th, 2006
Tagged as: Long Tail
Shel gets his baggage sent to Azerbaijan, we get to bask in the fabulous Italian Indian Summer in Umbria.
Umbria is just south of Tuscany, and shares quite a bit with its famous neighbour.
Yet as it isn’t Tuscany, there are far, far fewer tourists (although we did have to wade through thousands of American and German faithful in Assisi).
Which got us thinking. OR me at any rate. If I were looking for somewhere to escape to, somewhere to take my wife when we’ve had enough, I would choose the long tail of Italian tourism every time. It worked this week-end, why wouldn’t it work again?
But as there isn’t an aggregator, a collective, personal view of long tail tourism for runaway parents, maybe we just stumbled on an idea…
Anything to get out of Milan really 
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Scratching the surface
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 15th, 2006
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I’m impressed. I never imagined blogging could be the new realm of like-minded professionals but this social medium has uprooted and tossed aside my fear of identifying myself and has, once and for all, demonstrated that even someone as far out on the long tail as me can add considerable weight to the debate.
I am a ghost writer. More than simply writing in someone else’s shadow, for the majority of my clients, I simply do not exist. I’ve been hidden away for so long I almost forgot my identity. But then along came a spider, sat down beside her, and scared my fear away.
There is something magical about the moment something clicks. The instant it dawns on you that what you have been doing so far was just scratching the surface, and that if you push a little harder, you can actually overcome obstacles you’d become so used to they have become part of your scenery.
Call it inspiration, call it discovery but from where I stand, that moment is happening right now. What’s really strange, is that the biggest encouragement has come from one of my client’s single largest competitors.
This form of encouragment is, I believe, a clear demonstration of just how important mutual professional respect is for healthier comptetition and, ultimately, a better relationship with the market as a whole.
So many thanks to Richard for his unexpected yet thoroughly appreciated comments both on and off the beaten track.
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Starting from scratch
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 12th, 2006
Tagged as: Me
The ongoing discussion over at Shel Israel’s blog is keeping me up at night.
Not only because it’s the single most interesting thing I have participated in professionally for years, there is also a serious time lag between my input and everybody else.
I don’t know where Shel is at the moment but I assume Richard Binhammer is in Texas, meaning he’s on the ball when I’m tucked up in bed…
Still, it’s a fascinating development, and one I am going to stay up for every step of the way.
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When the dust settled…
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 11th, 2006
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Yesterday I was part of the single most interesting event since I started blogging. That wasn’t too long ago either so I guess *events* lurk around every corner.
Masked Blogger claims he’s trying to reach Apple from the inside. He publishes an intriguing post and the world jumps. Apple has blogged!!
Within 12 hours there’s even an *official* response from Dell’s senior communications man and the thing looks like it’s about to snowball.
But it didn’t and in the time it took for most of the non-listening world to notice, the storm was over. Yet in just 48 hours MB had managed to raise enough dust to cover the entire Gobi desert.
The conversation has since moved on and MB is drawing his own conclusions. The one thing I truly felt is that some companies heard. No matter how far up or down the food chain, they noticed, gave opinions and shared their thoughts on the subject.
OK, I *defended* Acer and took a harmless pot shot at the press-release response from Dell but rivalries aside, an exchange of views took place and they weren’t at watercooler level either.
Some of the points on MB’s post today show that companies are both listing and willing to participate but also illustrate just how important it is for companies who come onboard the bloggeride to set the record straight.
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