One month later...
Yes, it's been exactly one month since I last posted, which means I need to alter my style and post more often. Period.
It's been so long that I've even added a feed from my Chatter Lineup to this blog (see top right column). This is a precursor to our FanChatter widget for bloggers, coming soon.
So where do I begin again? Here goes, in no particular order...
-I have a great idea for building the FanChatter user base in bunches, but it depends on getting some help from my many friends who work for Minnesota's major sports teams. More on this later, lots more, but know that I'm working on it.
-The site is improving. After a development timeout that lasted a few weeks, we've made the mobile tools much easier to use and we've added PHOTO UPLOADS!! Yes, you will now be able to take sports fan photos with your phone and upload them directly to FanChatter...
...but wait, we're still testing the photo uploads, so be patient. It's gonna be really great when we get it working, though, and I'll let you know about it here...
...And as for mobile, our site copy needs updating to catch up with the new easier tools, but that's all ready to go. I'll dedicate another full entry to mobile soon (before another month passes) to explain how a FanChatter user not using FanChatter Mobile is like human beings using only 10% of their brains.
-Then there's Facebook, valued this week at $10 billion (and they thought Zuckerberg was crazy when he turned down Yahoo!'s $1 billion offer). We think we understand Facebook -- at least as well as anyone else who started their profile after they opened it up to old peopl... I mean... non-.edu email addresses -- and we know that FanChatter needs a Facebook app like yesterday. Let's just say we're trying to raise some money to Turn (That) Mutha Out, and if I lost you at non-.edu, then step off because u probably Can't Touch This.
-Also this month, Marc Ecko became my hero (again), this time by buying the Bonds 756 ball, putting it to a vote, and ideating his way into sports history immortality.
Not only that, but I work in advertising by day, and this guy is showing all of us glorified spammers that anyone who's still marketing like it's 1999 is going to be oops, outta time.
See my Ecko post at the Fallon Planning Blog (proof that at least I was blogging elsewhere... for work, no less).
-And finally, way back on August 30 we sent out the first ever TWiCh (This Week in Chatter) e-letter to all of our registered users. If you missed it, I've posted it in this blog (back-dated to the 30th). The second one is coming this week to announce the photo uploads and new mobile tools, and from now on I'll double-publish each new TWiCh e-letter here at TBTBNL...
That wasn't so hard. Like riding a bike. More like running. The trick is just going out and doing it every day. Come to think of it, I haven't run for a while either.
CUBS IN! CUBS IN! CUBS IN! CUBS IN!
