A Little Google Ranking Experiment

I'm hoping to make Common Craft the #1 result for a Google query on the term "Social Design". Right now, I'm around #3.

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Current Mood: Monday

The movie “Office Space” has a person in it that keeps saying to everyone “Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.” So very cheesy, but so true, at least for me. It’s Tuesday and I think have a case of whatever it is that seems to grip me on some Mondays.

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1000 Ways to Tell the Same Story

With all my recent and upcoming writing about “Social Design for the Web”, I fear being redundant. Instead, I want readers to say “Since Lee got on this Social Design kick, his writing has become more compelling and interesting.”

You see, I have a plan to brand Common Craft and the way I figure it, I need a few things to come together:

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This Feels Good

It's been a good day here at Common Craft.

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New Common Craft Business Cards

My new cards just came in from Overnight Prints (which I highly recommend). These are the real ones this time. The front has a slick "UV" finish and the back is more paper feeling (for easy writing).

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Common Craft does Social Design for the Web

A while back I wrote about the re-branding of Common Craft and first proposed the idea that what Common Craft does is “Social Design for the Web”. Since then, I’ve bounced this off of a number of people and the responses have been convincingly good. Most people tend to think that it makes sense.

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Help a Grad Student Get a Good Grade

My beloved brother-in-law is hoping to get responses to a 10-question online survey. His email said:

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My First Podcast Interview

Yesterday I had the honor of being interviewed for a podcast by Jake McKee at CommunityGuy.com. Actually, it was split into two interviews and both are online now. Here are links to the show notes, files and feeds...

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Test post from Qumana

Tris Hussey has been telling me about Qumana since the blog business summit, but didn't check it out for some reason.  At Northern Voice he did a lightening tools demo (a demo in under 3 minutes) and got me fascinated. So, I'm posting from Qumana right now as a test.  So far, so good...

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...And Common Craft Does What?

I’m always trying to figure out the best way to finish that introduction…lately because it’s time for new business cards. How do I answer that question the best way? So much rides on it sometimes.

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