Community: What I Know

Reblogged from Welcome to Trixieland:

As I leave behind my Community Manager days at Xbox, I want to share some of the things I’ve learned over the years. So CMs and CM-hopefuls, take note! 1) It’s not about you Being a community manager is not a chance for you to become a celebrity or to pump up your ‘personal brand’ (puke). If community is a party, you should strive to be the host with the most, not the drunk dude with a lampshade on his head or the lady surrounded by suitors like Scarlett O’Hara at the Twelve Oaks picnic. Your job is to …

Some good pointers on how to deal with your community!

Project 365: One Week Later

Although this is my main blog, it’s not being used for WordPress.com’s Project 365.

My idea for that was to play at least one videogame each day and blog about it, I may play a few games some days, but will just blog about one. It has reached day 7 and is there for anyone to read if you would care to do so, each post should only take a couple of minutes!

Anyway, if you want to read about my Project 365, go to mentalaceman.wordpress.com.

Thank you!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 79,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Stop with the Facebook Status Paranoia Already

If there’s one thing that annoys me most about social networks, it’s the people who don’t understand them and especially Facebook where you get countless sheep copying and pasting text because they don’t really understand what it means. Viral statuses are the worst affliction to be set upon you, you know they’re moronic and just there to cause unnecessary panic, but you don’t want to say anything because they’re your friends.

Project 365, But Not Here…

I started the Post-A-Day WordPress challenge at the start of this year and due to other commitments, I stopped in April. This time will be different (yeah, you hear that all the time :p ) because it’s part of my plan to get more gaming done and a bid to get my Xbox 360 Gamerscore up to at least 50,000 by the end of the year (2012).

[HOW TO] Embed Tweets with Twitter

Did you know you can embed tweets into blog posts? What if your site isn’t a blog, but you want to embed a tweet and don’t use a WordPress installation which means you can’t use the Blackbird plugin?!

Twitter now allows you to embed any tweet (unsure about tweets from protected accounts, but I’m guessing you can’t) using html code that you simply copy and paste into your post/article to be shown in a unique style. You also have the ability to tweak the tweet to how you want it, so just how do you embed a tweet direct from Twitter?