August 14, 2007
While writing a draft post on a wonderful Wordpress plugin, Gregarious — which really wasn’t going anywhere exciting or interesting (probably will remain a draft forever) — I thought about an experiment I’ve been trying for the past several days.
If you Google “make digg homepage“, you’ll see around 10.7 million results. Most of the articles focus on the type of content you should write, catchiness of headlines, adding Digg widgets…….and a bunch of other tips that mean @#!* all if you don’t have a lot of regular readers and/or Diggers.
This experiment I mentioned is based on one of these articles that made the Digg front page a few days ago. Only this time, the author actually seems to know what he’s talking about. Brett Borders of Copybrighter wrote a step-by-step guide, which can be traced back to a simpler version from THE HORSE’S MOUTH, Mr. Calacanis back in December of last year.
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August 14, 2007
Over the past year or so I’ve come to the realization that sometimes the most important thing you can do in life is keep your mouth shut. Personally or professionally, employee or employer, it’s in your best interest to keep your cards to yourself.
Too often we feel the urge to share our opinion because we feel entitled to have one. True enough, in the free world it’s your right to have an opinion, but remember: The workplace is a dictatorship, not a democracy. Employees often miscalculate their place or even more dangerously, their relationship with the boss. Before you speak, put yourself on the receiving end of your comment. Without rationalizing, how did it make you feel? You can bet it’ll make them feel the same way. Now with your job on the line, is it worth sharing?
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August 13, 2007
Wow, time sure flies. August 1st was the exact two year marker since Young Go Getter was first created by Eric. I’ve been a member since that day and a partner for a little over a year.
What began as just a phpBB forum, then morphed into a horror-show of iframes (I already apologized, back off!), finally became the Wordpress/Vanilla mashup you’ve come to love.
It’ll be interesting to look back on YGG a year from today as we reach triple digits (inside Flight of the Conchords joke). I know it won’t look anything like it does today, but I haven’t the slightest clue what it will look like. Let’s worry about that when the time comes.
So to all of the unbelievable readers, members, and supporters of YGG, two cheers to helping us stay above water for over 700 days and motivating us to keep at it.
That’s right creepy Elmo. Yahoo. We’re 2.
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August 12, 2007
This was quite the busy week in business and blogging. Hence, the longest collection of Entreprenews to date. Enjoy!
8 Essential Strategies to Saying “No”
Thanks to Verne for this link
Our pals over at FSw share 8 different ways to tell your client to piss off, pleasantly.
Look Behind Our Shirts: Shirt.Woot Exposed!
An extensive photo documentation of Woot screen printing their shirts. Very cool.
Original Design Gangsta
For all the designers in da house. A video rhymin’ and mixin’, terminology from the creative world we live in.
Age, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Precocity
As time passes, so does opportunity. A bit of number and factor crunching to get your ass in gear.
Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part II: Feature Creep
Features are great, when needed. But if they’re let lose, they can creep into every nook and crany, and result in what’s known as ugaly-as-myspac-a-citis.
Cycle of a Fan
An illustrated look at the difference between being a customer and being a fan.
Chrysler Rebranding
Looks a little less ugly, I guess.
Taberu Me: Peanuts as business cards
Your paper business cards suck in comparison to my nuts. (nastiest pun you’ll ever hear from me)
Eric Staller: Light Drawings
Light art has been getting quite a bit of publicity lately. But these gorgeous captures date back to the late 70s, while today’s artsies were still in diapers.
9 Ways to keep hucksters, shucksters and slimeballs at arms length when starting your own business
How to avoid those “turn your dollar into $13,426.53″ jerks, and save yourself from plenty of headaches and lawsuits.
The new ProBlogger is up
Title says it all. And may I add, about damn time Mr. Rowse!
Baker’s Edge
Who doesn’t love the crunchy edges of brownies? Now everyone can.
10 Ways to Write a Great Lead for a Blog Post
Great articles are nothing without a great lead. Bookmark this goody.
Is good enough enough?
Deadlines and restraints usually result in “good enough”. But what if you changed your objective?
The Ten Most Obnoxiously Overquoted Movies
If you ask for the TPS reports one more time, I’m, going, to, SNAP!!!
An Interview With Ben Gillbanks from Miniclip
We featured and loved one of Ben’s Miniclip games not too long ago. Now, our beloved young go getter, Adnan, went one step further and interviewed him. Great job Adnan.
Have a link or article you think should make the Entreprenews? Send it to us before Saturday each week, and if we think our readers will like it, we’ll include it and give you due credit. hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.
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August 12, 2007
From the feedback we got in the Forum, it was time for an upgrade to the Directory. So I spent the morning building a new direction for it, and went with the gallery format instead of a tag cloud.
We were just looking to give you a reason to drop by there every now and then, and make it easier to view and visit the sites. In my opinion, it looks a helluva lot better.
All of the dead sites were weeded out, and we encourage anyone that would like to be featured in the Directory to take a moment, register in our forum, and we’ll add it for you.
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August 10, 2007
“It’s another way for us to engage with our advertisers and our audience” said Chris McCumber, senior VP of marketing and brand strategy for USA.
The preformatted fluff to the right, care of USA Network’s Chris McCumber, is in regards to their latest project (USA Network and NBC Universal) called Didja. Like, “Did ya see that?”. Ha ha, he he, hilarious. Didja is said to be an archive of old and new TV ads, movie trailers, and other stuff that usually interrupts the content you’re trying to enjoy.
“Both efforts are designed to give NBC a bigger share of the ad revenue being generated by streaming video.” Exactly. Didja is being made to help NBC milk a medium for as much as they can.
Look at what TBS has done with Very Funny Ads. They transformed an annual highlight show on their network, into a popular online archive of some of the funniest ads. Conceptually, being that their tagline is “very funny”, such a site ties into their brand perfectly.
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August 9, 2007
You have to thank The Phat Phree for putting this list together. And you have to pity The Phat Phree for having to find and watch every ad in this list.
Odds are you haven’t seen the majority of these, being that some are older, and almost all of them would have been run at off times in small regions.
My observation: small retail, fast food, automotive, and insurance businesses, should be banned from advertising on television.
I would pick a favourite, but it’s so damn tough, when they’re all so great.
The 50 greatest local TV commercials.
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August 8, 2007
As I said yesterday, we want to try some new things to increase the interaction and participation here at YGG. One of the ideas I came up with last week was to let the face(s) of our community be the face of our community, literally.
See that mysterious fella’ in the top right corner holding a YGG sign? Yes, that is in fact me, but I’m getting a little sick of myself.
So here’s my idea: shoot a creative picture of yourself holding a YGG sign (see below) and we’ll feature it as our logo. We’ll rotate through all of the submissions so a different young go getter appears each time you view a page.
Maybe we’ll even pick the most creative picture each month and send you a prize.
Being that we tend to be featured in quite a few galleries and articles, depending on who’s pic shows up when the screenshot is taken, you could permanently have your glorious face in some of the popular galleries. That’s D-list stardom right there, baby.
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August 7, 2007
Things have looked a little strange across YGG this past week or two. I said we we’re trying to fix some “significant bugs” and optimize the site, when in reality, we we’re building a new theme. It’s not too different. Just nicer, easier to read, and aimed at building this community, not just the blog, into a behemoth.
We came up with the name Mr. Clean for the theme, somewhat because of Eric’s polished dome, but mainly because we really focused on stripping out all the crap (Adsense, excess space, etc…) so everything flows in a nice grid pattern.
We’ve also scribbled down a few plans on napkins somewhere (I really shouldn’t have thrown those out), for some interesting things to help up the forum participation and members, while allowing you promote yourselves in interesting ways. More details to come over the next few days.
There are still a few little tweaks we have to handle to make this release “official”, but I’m so damn tired, that I’d much rather have released the theme then held off any longer.
So here it is, YGG, Mr. Clean…….and we’d love to hear what you think.
If you have a request, suggestion, see a bug, have a hankerin’ for some ass kissin’, please do so in the comments of this post. Get at us while we’ve still got a bit of honky rhythm left in us, and we’ll do what we can to have the site at 100% asap.
PS for the 18% of our readers that still use Internet Explorer 6 - first off, upgrade your browser, damnit! Second, we made a special stylesheet just for you, so the blog and it’s comments don’t look like crap, as they did before. We’ll work on rolling out another special IE6 stylesheet for the forum in the next few days.
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August 6, 2007
We’ve received a few e-mails this morning saying that the forum has been prompting people for a password and looks a bit strange. We’re working on fixing some pretty significant bugs and transferring YGG to a dedicated server at Media Temple.
So we’ll be off and on for most of the day, but everything should be back to normal tomorrow.
Thanks for your concern, and step outside for some fresh air, you YGG addicts! :)
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