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Milk or Medicine?: A Choice You Shouldn't Have to Make

Submitted by Riche Zamor on February 29, 2008 - 4:14am

The past few days on the campaign trail have been inspiring and humbling to say the least. I have met people from all over Alaska in the short week and a half I have been here, and needless to say their stories are extraordinary. Yet, these are stories I have heard before. There is the story of the parent who cannot feed their child, or the child who feels they have no one to turn to so they turn to a liquor bottle, and the retiree who has become so cold and bitter to the world around them because they have been their needs have been ignored for so long.

I helped a woman move a bed today, and it changed my life.

Submitted by Riche Zamor on February 9, 2008 - 4:40pm

Yes, I know, who hasn't right? But this was different...

I walked out of my house this morning on my way to Mayorga Lounge to get some work done. Bertie, one of the house cats, was driving me nuts. Great cat, my favorite of the three by far, but he gets in these moods where he wants all this attention and I just melt and give in.

RSS is the new Email

Submitted by Riche Zamor on January 29, 2008 - 4:54pm

RSS to me is going to be the next email. Alot of people make the argument that "RSS hasn't caught on as much...", but I don't completely buy it. Over 65% of consumer marketing sites use RSS feeds today...that is a huge chunk of the web! Now, what I personally feel is happening...well, marketers are not sure what to do with it.

Microblogging with Twitter and Drupal

Submitted by Riche Zamor on January 14, 2008 - 7:49pm

I have been playing around with Twitter tonight, trying to see how well this can integrate with Drupal. There is alot of buzz starting to brew about how Twitter can be used as a tool for advocacy, political campaigning, and possibly even fundraising. I was personally looking for an easy way to do some micro-blogging from the road. To be completely honest, I am not a huge blogger (as you can see from the frequency of my posts), because it requires me to take time out of my busy days to sit down and formulate coherent thoughts into posts like this one (ugh).

RSS is the new Email

Submitted by Riche Zamor on January 13, 2008 - 7:54pm

RSS to me is going to be the next email. Alot of people make the argument that "RSS hasn't caught on as much...", but I don't completely buy it. Over 65% of consumer marketing sites use RSS feeds today...that is a huge chunk of the web! Now, what I personally feel is happening...well, marketers are not sure what to do with it.

Microsoft opens beta of Popfly mashup builder

Submitted by Riche Zamor on October 18, 2007 - 12:21pm

Microsoft started an open beta program for its consumer-oriented mashup builder Popfly on Thursday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Popfly is a hosted application that enables people to assemble mashups by dragging and dropping components, rather than writing code. It's built with Microsoft's Silverlight Web browser plug-in.

Google Extends Their Social Agenda To Maps

Submitted by Riche Zamor on October 17, 2007 - 6:31pm

It’s no longer a secret that Google is working hard on developing social features across the board. Now they’re putting a face on all the content generated by users on Google Maps by integrating their Google “Shared Stuff” profiles.

Social Networks Versus Online Communities

Submitted by Riche Zamor on October 8, 2007 - 6:15am

I have been rather suprised by the amount of people I have met over the past couple of months that are not familiar with the differences between an online community and a social network. In my mind, I classify them as two distinct genres with some overlapping features.

I define an online community as a gathering place for individuals interested in engaging others with like-minded interests and sharing information for consumption by the community or the greater populus. In this category, I place the following forms of communities:

1) Forums

2) Blogs

3) Wikis

Salesforce is in your Face...Book!

Submitted by Riche Zamor on October 8, 2007 - 6:11am

So I have had the opportunity to work with <a href="http://www.thefaceforce.com" title="Faceforce for Salesforce">Faceforce</a>  a little bit over the past few weeks as we get a client up and running on <a href="http://www.salesforce.com" title="Salesforce website">Salesforce</a> . To this point I am impressed with this tool and it's integration with Salesforce.

The Issue of Usability with Online Technology

Submitted by Riche Zamor on October 8, 2007 - 6:05am

As a person who loves CMS and CRM systems as much as the next techie, we all must admit there the user interface for many systems not the most welcoming. Non-technical web and database administrators more times then not have a pretty steep learning curve when coming into a new system that has the exact same features as it's top competitors, but organizes functionality in a completely different way.

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