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On January 8th, 2012% 
by Uncle Alan
It’s easier today than ever before.
When I was a kid, we had three local TV stations. It was a big deal when a PBS station opened up, giving us another viewing option. My dad put a huge antenna with a rotator and signal reception booster on the roof, so we could pick up six more stations from Kansas City, about 60 miles from Topeka.
Two of those six Kansas City stations were independents. They played re-runs and old movies, like cable super stations do today. The other four were affiliated with the same “big three” networks and PBS. They usually played the same shows we got on the local stations during regular programming hours – with a fuzzier picture.
At night, . . . → Read More: You — The Next Larry King?
On December 26th, 2011% 
by Uncle Alan
Whether you use your own blog, or post to Facebook, Twitter or some other social media platform, many of us communicate regularly online. I’ve pointed out before you can take these posts, gather them up, and easily put together a book. Twenty-six year old author, Shawn Michael Severud’s done just that. Severud has just released perdida: essays to be read while intoxicated, a collection of Jack Keroujac-esque essays the author admits are collected directly from his own blog posts on a broad variety of subjects, exactly as they were originally posted: devoid of capitalization of any words.
"perdida: essays to be read while intoxicated” is a collection of Jack Keroujac-esque essays the author admits are collected directly from his own blog . . . → Read More: Past Blog Posts Provide Fodder for Fiction
On December 5th, 2011% 
by Uncle Alan
Back in May, I provided you parts one and two of The Fundamental You, a video training I created a couple of years ago. At the time, I promised I’d post parts three and four “in the next week or so.”
It turns out “or so” won – and it was six months.
I’ll bet you thought I forgot. I did, but that doesn’t make it right to call your Uncle Alan on it — so show some respect, will ya?
Seriously – I apologize for the delay. Here’s part 3 of The Fundamental You – the complete training in making yourself memorable the easy way, by accenting the real you. I originally charged $297 for this training when it was conducted . . . → Read More: It’s All About You — Part 3
On May 15th, 2011% 
by Uncle Alan
Last week, I presented you Part One of my truly unique FUNdamental You training. This is four video sessions designed to help you build a solid persona or brand that can take your business into the stratosphere. They were originally released in 2008 as a $197 program and the information is just as valuable today as it was then.
Possibly more so, when you add the new power of social networking to the mix today.
It’s actually fun when you do it by focusing on you – the real you – the FUNdamental You.
Here’s Part Two of the four-video series: //
Let’s discuss. Got questions? I’ll help. Got added suggestions or ways to apply what is here to . . . → Read More: It’s All About You…Part 2
On May 8th, 2011% 
by Uncle Alan
Yesterday I told you about the importance of considering social networking impact when you name your business. It’s almost important enough to warrant re-naming your business, if you’re not too entrenched.
This brought forth a lot of requests for more details about the branding process itself – an important part of naming your business. This, also, should be done with an eye toward the impact your brand will have on the socially connected prospects and customers you are now already seeing daily and will lose if you don’t get in front of them in a memorable way.
So – it’s time to pull out my Fundamental You training!
I originally sold this for $297 and later offered it as a bonus only . . . → Read More: It’s All About You…
On November 19th, 2010% 
by Uncle Alan
You’ve most likely heard about Facebook’s new messaging system, announced this week. During the Web 2.0 Summit, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a good deal of his presentation time participating in a pretty intense interrogation from Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle.
I thought it was interesting Zuckerberg said Facebook didn’t set out to build an email product. Instead, he described the system, which combines email, SMS, IM, Chat, and other forms of online communication into one in box, along with @facebook.com email addresses, as a “modern message system.”
I’m certain everyone with an “in” box will be pleased to hear that the focus has also been strong on using the “social graph” to solve the spam problem associated with most email services. . . . → Read More: New Facebook Messaging System: Mark Zuckerberg’s Philosophy Revealed
On November 19th, 2010% 
– Two Free “Gleansight” Benchmark Reports Released –
by Uncle Alan
Gleanster, an IT market research firm that benchmarks best practices in technology-enabled business initiatives, has announced the publication of two free “Gleansight” benchmark reports that document best practices in listening to the voice of the customer.
You know I love bringing great late-breaking valuable research and reports to your attention. We all have to stay abreast of current and future trends if we’re going to thrive as social publishers. This research, based on the experiences of hundreds of companies, can be downloaded for free from the Gleanster website.
The reports are entitled Social Media Monitoring and Customer Feedback Management. Both reports are 21 pages in length and include a vendor landscape section with analyst . . . → Read More: New Research Benchmarks Best Practices in Listening to the Voice of the Customer
On November 16th, 2010% 
by Uncle Alan
For this site, specializing and focusing in on a target market means aiming its content at slightly more than half the population! Apparently, their choice was a good one. They focus on online videos of interest to women and they’ve been lauded as one of the two most popular video destinations on the Web.
Now SheKnows ( http://www.sheknows.com ) has announced the launch of its new video channel, SK TV, which will serve as a one-stop online destination for all the original video series being created, produced and edited by SheKnows, as well as its extensive video-on-demand library of original clips on every topic.
For years, SheKnows has produced and distributed video on its site. But that video content has always lived . . . → Read More: SheKnows Launches SheKnows TV
On May 11th, 2010% 
On a whim, I visited http://www.prweb.com and entered a search for “blogs,” just to see what’s new. I found a pretty interesting new video series — one I always thought would be excellent and wish I’d put together myself.
The series is called The Mess Before Success. It’s a collection of 25 impromptu interviews with leading successful entrepreneurs, revealing the obstacles and crap storms they’ve faced along the path — and how they worked their way out of or around them.
It sounds interesting. I’m gonna give it a try and I’ll report here on what I found.
The press release I found included a photo I can use in my story. I did.
It also included a YouTube video. I could have clicked the . . . → Read More: A QUICK Mess
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