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EP:004 – The Cotton Club Podcast

February 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In the first episode of ‘The Social Radar’ podcast Cotton Rohrscheib and Keith Crawford discuss a wide variety of topics related to social media, from desktop applications to wireless and mobile apps. Some of the applications discussed in this episode include Twazzup, Posterous, PicPosterous, Ustream U Recorder, Bambuser, TweetMic, My6Sense, Newsstand, Google Wave, Waveboard, Waze, Seesmic (Look, Desktop, Twhirl), Delicious, Diigo, and Toodledo.

In addition to social media applications we also debate the hot “Re-Tweets” versus “mentions” or “via’s” topic on Twitter as well as how trends play an important role in how we receive our news.  Keith also discusses his adoption of lists and how he uses them to manage his stream.

Applications & Products Featured:
  • Twazzup Beta web client for Twitter
  • PicPosterous iPhone App: $Free, share pics and video instantly
  • Ustream iPhone App
  • Bambuser iPhone App: $Free, stream live video
  • TweetMic Lite iPhone App: $Free, post audio clips to twitter
  • my6sense iPhone App: $Free, read and share “relevant” content
  • Newsstand iPhone App: $4.99, full featured RSS reader
  • Waveboard iPhone App: $1.99 Googe wave client
  • Seesmic Look Desktop App: Visualize twitter trends & updates
  • Seesmic Web Twitter Client
  • Toodledo iPhone App: $2.99 To do list app with Outlook syncing

Programming Note: My guest host, Keith Crawford, and I have decided to no longer use the name, The Social Radar, for our podcast.  I am publishing our previously recorded episodes to The Cotton Club Podcast for those of you who have requested them.

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#RefreshCA Meeting – November 17th on Google Wave

November 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Our November Central Arkansas Refresh meeting will be on the 17th as opposed to the last Tuesday because of the holidays. 

We are hoping that our November meeting will be pretty special, we are going to be discussing a hot topic, Google Wave.  Instead of a single presenter type format, we have been discussing a group led demonstration w/ moderators, and would love your input on the topic. 

So far Greg Henderson has agreed to be one of the moderators, if anyone else is interested in moderating let us know here.  The start time for the meeting will be around 6-6:30pm in the basement of The Flying Saucer. (Everyone please say a prayer beforehand that we have enough bandwidth that night to pull off a group demo of this product!).  Also, since this is one of the last meetings we will have this year, let’s try to set an attendance record that we can build upon in 2010.  Tell your friends, neighbors, and co-workers, that this will be one #RefreshCA meeting that they don’t want to miss!! 

If you need directions to the Flying Saucer, just click on the map below.  Also, we will be sending out RSVP’s and Event Notifications via Facebook and Twitter soon, please let us know one way or the other so we can get an idea of our headcount…


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Need Your Thoughts on Nov. #RefreshCA – Google Wave

November 4, 2009 By 14 Comments

Okay, so we decided at our last Central Arkansas Refresh meeting that we were going to hold our monthly meeting a week earlier in November due to the holidays.  Our meeting date is November 17th (which is the 3rd Tuesday), so please help spread the word about this…

Since the topic that we have all pretty much agreed upon is going to be Google Wave the idea has been tossed around that we do a group or panel demo of the product for the benefit of those that have not had an opportunity to play with it yet.  I think that this will also give those of us who haven’t spent a lot of time in Wave an excellent opportunity to pick up on some of the advanced functionality from those within the group that have spent some time with it.

What I have been kind of wrestling with is how do we do a group type demonstration like this?  Do we station people w/ laptops at each table and just have people gather around?  I am thinking that this is probably the best approach, but am open to suggestions…

Also, given the fact that there are still a lot of people waiting on their invites, and haven’t had an opportunity to really get up to speed w/ Wave, I think it would be worthwhile for maybe someone in our group (that has some experience w/ Wave) to give a 5 minute overview of what we are looking at, any volunteers?

I am really looking forward to this meeting, I think it’s going to be highly interactive, not to mention showcasing an emerging technology that is exploding on the scene, which is a the reason we do these meetings in the first place.  Okay, so…

    1. What are your thoughts on the meeting format?
    2. What are your thoughts on having a moderator or 2 to navigate us through the demo?
    3. Anyone interested in being a Moderator?
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First Impressions of Google Wave

October 20, 2009 By 7 Comments

Google-Wave-logo Okay, so I finally got around to checking out Google Wave today.  I have had the invitation sitting in my inbox for a while now and just haven’t had a free moment to check it out until today.  My first impression of it wasn’t all that great until I was able to wrap my head around the big picture.  I will be the first to admit that I am still learning all of the bells and whistles so bear with me…

The first thing I noticed when I logged in was that it’s an actual live conversation, as opposed to email which is lot less dynamic in theory.  Some of my friends from the Central Arkansas Refresh community (Keith Crawford, Bryan Jones, Rob McBryde, Arlton Lowry, and Greg Henderson) had already included me in a few waves that they had going so I jumped in to see if I could get the hang of it without actually watching the tutorials or reading anything.  Not so much…

Spend a Few Minutes and Get Up to Speed…

One of the first things I did out of the box was stick my reply in the wrong place and it hosed up the whole works.  No, I didn’t really hose up the works, but for someone as OCD as me, it was devastating.  It took me a few minutes to learn how to properly reply in between waves, and watching this video on YouTube sure helped out a lot too…

The Playback Feature is Cool…

One feature that I really think is neat is the playback feature, it allows you to get up to speed a lot faster than you normally would if you were working with email that was being passed around between several different people, all replying to various elements of a communication.

Sluggish Out of the Box…

As you might expect, Wave is not perfect in it’s current state, there are some bugs naturally.  One of the things that I noticed was that in Firefox I kept having issues w/ the page refreshing or getting locked up.  Someone suggested that I try Google Chrome and immediately that seemed to help out w/ the performance issues I was having.

Final Thoughts…

I am still playing around with the application right now, and have only spent a grand total of 30 minutes with it so far, but my initial thoughts were that Google is going to face an uphill battle rolling this solution out to the general public.  For the most part I think that our clients find email to be intuitive and easy to get up and running with out of the box.  With Wave, it’s going to be a lot different.  I’m not saying that I am a genius by any means but I can usually take a web application that I have never seen before and get up to speed with it pretty quickly, without having to watch a tutorial or read a manual.  I honestly had to take a step back and wrap my head around wave.

Now, do I think it’s a viable product?  Heck yes, I think it’s going to definitely find it’s place into our daily lives at some point, when I am not sure.  In the business realm we are looking for ways to increase efficiency and boost productivity.  Since Google Wave resembles a conversation more than it does an email, I think it’s going to relevant for sure.  I am anxious to see what the future holds for this product…

What is Google Wave?

If you are curious as to what in the world I am talking about, Google Wave is the latest tool from Google that is currently in preview mode right now for people to try out.  You have to have an invite to get into to try the software right now, I am not for sure how much longer that is going to be the case.  Here’s an explanation of Wave that I found on Google’s website:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

By the way, if you are currently using Google Wave, you can connect to me at: cotton.rohrscheib@googlewave.com.

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