Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

We have an appointment scheduled with the Streamtime people for Friday at 11AM EST. They will be showing us the application, inside and out. We’re very excited about this, as we’ll have someone that knows what their doing show us the application and all the features that are contained within it. I’ll be reporting here once we’ve gone through the demo with them and our thoughts on the application, features, functionality, work flow and overall speed.

Personally I feel that Streamtime will end up being our choice over Studiometry. But only time will tell as we have yet to use Streamtime anywhere near as much as Studiometry. Both seem to boast pretty much the same features and functionality, so only time and usability will tell which one will win over my team and I.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to the Streamtime Demo they offer on their home page.

I’m also going to be going over a few of the applications that I personally use for my day to day tasks, to-do’s and projects. I’ve used a number of different applications in the past and while most seem fairly good and work out for the most part, there have only been a few that I’ve stuck with. I still haven’t pinned down one that I really want to use, nor have I got a good management system in place for personal productivity. I am however working out all the kinks with what I’m using and trying to get a good system in place. Once I’ve done so, I’ll outline an entire mini-eBook on the subject and release it here for everyone to download.

My goal is to eventually write a full eBook on the subject. What I went through, what I’ve tried and what failed and worked for me. Along with the final system I decided to use in the end. So without divulging too much information about the eBook and digressing too much from the topic at hand, I’ll leave it be.

So I’ve been reading up on a new type of marketing, whereas one utilizes social networking outlets to blast anything out there to the masses. We’ve all heard of Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and so on. But did you know that they are a huge untapped market, ready to be “cough” tapped.

After reading up on doing this type of marketing, the first thing that popped into my head was, this is going to take a really long time to do. Why would I want to input the same thing over and over again on all these web sites. There is a really good reason for doing it, either by hand or automated. Yes I said automated, it can be done and it isn’t “blackhat” either. Check out the bottom of this post, you see the button that says “Bookmark & Share”? Mouse over that button and see what it does. I know, you’re saying “But Mike, this is for us to bookmark you, not the other way around.”.

YOU’RE WRONG! Ok, now that I’ve got that out. That is incorrect, in order to get that button through OnlyWire’s web site you must sign-up for an account and in doing so, you gain access to their really cool online tool that allows you to post your stories, bookmarks and anything else you want to plaster across your social networking accounts for all to see. Granted this isn’t 100% automated, it still has some glitches and you still must go to most of the sites and input a small amount of information, namely captchas. But come on people, this cuts your posting time on all of these sites from a few hours down to around 15 minutes once you get used to it. There is also a Firefox plugin that allows you to do the same postings, but within your browser, btw I use Flock and it works with it as well.