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  What’s Ahead for chi.mp in 2010 As we roll into the year 2010 here at chi.mp, we’ve spent some time reflecting on how chi.mp has evolved and what our goals are as a company. To ensure that chi.mp continues to progress we have decided that we need to focus on doing what we do best: give away free .mp domains on [...]

  7 months on
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  What’s new at chi.mp! Our User Experience Designer, Cory Shaw, has made giant leaps in progress regarding the chi.mp owner experience!  He has redesigned our chi.mp website and completely re-hauled owner site navigation. The dropdown menus on the .mp sites make navigating, creating content and publishing much easier to do.  The View My Site links will show you how others [...]

  9 months on
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  What’s new at chi.mp! Collect, connect and promote your digital life and your chi.mp site by using some of our new features! Promote your site with Twitter! Choose the Preview link on your site and you will find the Twitter logo. Add a personal video or images to your Bio statement. We upgraded the HTML editor which now allows you to [...]

  11 months on
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  Social Media & Social Change One thing I love about chi.mp is its big heart.  As an organization, chi.mp is generous and altruistic, seeking to improve the world we live in as much as your online experience.  This week I had a chance to spend time with Jean Russell, also known online as NurtureGirl.  I asked her some questions on [...]

  11 months on
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  Why Privacy Matters The teen who lost her job after calling her work “boring” on Facebook, or the woman fired for calling her boss “pervvy” in a status update did not suffer from a deficit in privacy.  They were fired, rightly or wrongly, for poor judgment.  Most people understand that their posted content exists in the public domain.  [...]

  11 months on
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  What’s All The Hubbub About? It’s got a funny name, but PubSubHubbub, recently released to Google Code, may prove quite useful. PubSub is short for publish/subscribe, an asynchronous messaging paradigm. A publisher produces messages and subscribes consume those messages. PubSub is often used in distributed software systems as a way for pieces of the application to communicate with each other [...]

  11 months on
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  Beyond the Resume “The online world works as a living, breathing resume,” according to Leslie Poston.  She’s right.  Your qualifications and references can no longer be constrained to a sheet of paper.  Consider how I evaluate potential hires . . . Google them Check their LinkedIn page and connections Verify their interests and work product across the web For [...]

  11 months on
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  New and Notable chi.mp, Tara SG, taraSG.mp! There are some chi.mp sites that make you look twice.  It could be that cool background design, an avatar, or perhaps even something in the Activity Stream that grabs your attention and makes you want to find out a little bit more about the site and the person behind it. If you’re new to chi.mp and/or [...]

  12 months on
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  Organizing Your Digital Life Image by jazzmasterson via Flickr My personal quest for digital organization never ends.  The circa 1970 steel file cabinet in the corner of my office slowly empties, as my computer desktop and hard drives fill.  My stuff is everywhere. This is an aspiration of chi.mp - to simplify your digital life.  By collecting and organizing contacts, activity [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Atom Syndication and chi.mp You may not know this, but you can subscribe to any chi.mp site’s activity stream and read it in any news feed reader like Google Reader, FeedDaemon, NetNewsWire or any web browser or client that supports Atom feeds. What’s an Atom feed? In a nutshell, an Atom feed provides a way for you to subscribe to [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Product You I recently had a chance to sit down with Liz Strauss and discuss personal branding.  Liz is a social web strategist and community builder, who has written extensively about personal development and its intersection with professional development. Liz writes most frequently at Successful Blog and is a founder of the highly successful business bloggers conference SOBCon. [...]

  ~1 year on
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