March 13, 2012 • 9:25 pm 0
Regardless of how you feel about President Obama, take a minute or two to watch this video that his digital team launched about a month ago:
What impressed me so much about this video was how the Obama campaign’s digital team used Outlook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, and the Facebook timeline as background / context for photos and video from the past five years.
Filed under: News and Politics, Social Networking, Technology
December 31, 2011 • 4:55 pm 0
Over the winter holidays, I’ve been making some updates to a website where I list upcoming political and non-profit events in the Seattle metro area. The site is CivicCal (for Civic Calendar.) In addition to a listing of events, it also includes a list of organizations and a list of venues. I’ve been thinking about directions to take the site and I would very much welcome your input. A few ideas:
Please leave a comment, post on CivicCal’s wall on Facebook, tweet at @RobDolin or @CivicCal, send an email, or otherwise get in-touch. Thanks very much–
–Rob
Filed under: News and Politics, Online Communities, Social Networking, Technology
November 20, 2011 • 12:45 am 1
On Friday, I found-out about an awesome opportunity for friends in the DC area to see an exhibition basketball game played by current and former NBA all-starts. (http://bit.ly/ObamaClassic.) I wanted to share this info with friends in the DC area, so I started doing some investigation of the “People Search” functionality on various Social Networks.
Searching for just the words “Washington, DC” on Facebook yields a bunch of junk results, but by filtering to People and picking the Washington, DC location, I got a bunch of quick results of my friends in the DC-area. Here’s a link to the specific query: http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?lo=2427178&wk=&ed=&ny=&q=Washington%2C+DC&type=users
And here are the settings I used:
For LinkedIn, you need to click the “Advanced” link: 
And then set your options: 
Here’s a canonical URL: http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?searchLocationType=I&countryCode=us&postalCode=20005
Given these useful discoveries, I’m importing contacts from systems that have less robust people search (or out-of-date user profiles) like AOL/AIM.
Happy connecting–
–Rob
Filed under: Online Communities, Social Networking
August 3, 2011 • 6:36 am 0
I volunteer with the 43rd District Democrats in Seattle. One of our board members is running for Seattle City Council. Many of the board members are supporting him and have changed their profile pictures on Facebook to the “I’m with Mo!” logo that you can see below.
It will be hard to measure, but I’ll be curious to see if this has some impact on peripheral awareness of the campaign and people choosing to vote for Mr. Classen.
Filed under: News and Politics, Social Networking
July 23, 2011 • 10:36 pm 0
Earlier today, I was offered the chance on Facebook to upgrade to their new Messaging platform. I’m excited to see how this works so I went ahead and upgraded. I’ve heard that this is a slow roll-out so I also took screenshots so blog readers who didn’t have this feature (yet) could see it:
It looks like Facebook is offering me a chance to upgrade to their messaging platform.
Here’s the screens of what I went through if folks are interested:
(I’ll be turning this off if Facebook doesn’t have a good relevance system for limiting who can send me a Facebook message as a text.)
If you’re also using Facebook’s new messaging, please leave a comment with any tips and/or let me know what you think. Thanks very much–
–Rob
Filed under: Social Networking, Technology
June 30, 2011 • 5:48 am 3
June 7, 2011 • 8:33 pm 0
Try doing a search for the word “santorum” in your favorite search engine. It’s interesting that the first hit is not the Presidential campaign of Rick Santorum but http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/.
Through the wonders many, many people linking the words “santorum” or “rick santorum” to the aforementioned site, it’s the top hit on Bing (and some other search engine.)
It’s amazing the impact a large number of small websites and blogs can have if they work together.
Filed under: Social Networking, Technology
March 6, 2011 • 9:41 am 1
Below are some of my favorite posts from 2009 and 2010:
Filed under: Blogging, Microsoft, News and Politics, Online Communities, Social Networking, Step-by-step, Technology, Windows Live
March 5, 2011 • 11:13 am 1
If you’re interested reading some of my blog posts from 2006-2010, you can find them on http://RobDolinsSpace.wordpress.com/. Specific categories that might be of interest include:
Filed under: Blogging, Food and Drink, Humor, Microsoft, News and Politics, Online Communities, Personal, Social Networking, Step-by-step, Technology, Travel, Windows Live
March 5, 2011 • 8:44 am 1
I just migrated my Windows Live Space to WordPress, but I want to have my new blog’s visitors easily be able to share my blog posts out to their favorite online communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live. I noticed that WordPress has built-in buttons for Facebook and Twitter but not Windows Live. So I did a bit of digging and figured-out how to add a button to share on Windows Live Messenger. Here’s what I did:
Filed under: Blogging, Microsoft, Online Communities, Social Networking, Step-by-step, Technology, Windows Live
