Welcome to episode 001 of the New Media Cincinnati podcast, with your hosts, Daniel Johnson, Jr. and Matthew Evins.

This episode was recorded on Thursday, August 11, 2011. We met in-person at an Arby’s in Fairfield, Ohio and shared some of the discussion going on in the LinkedIn group, as well as about Sir Paul McCartney playing in Cincinnati recently.

Shout-out to sponsors: Jazzmania Productions and BlueHost.

Download this episode directly: Paul McCartney, Tech Hotspots, and WordPress Blog Spam – New Media Cincinnati Podcast – Hosts: Daniel Johnson, Jr. and Matthew Evins

Running time: 27:04.

01:40 Excitement around the August 13, 2011 NMC Second Saturday event. One in three people registered are coming for their first time. In 2011 there have been many new faces showing up at these events, demonstrating a continued interest in this space.

03:00 Sir Paul McCartney in Cincinnati last week for a concert at Great American Ball Park. Some are suggesting this might have been his last concert ever in Cincinnati.

04:23 Other bands from the 80′s in Cincinnati also last week: Journey, Foreigner, and Night Ranger. A couple days beforehand, Journey played on the Today show, sounding just as good as ever.

05:17 Business Week names Cincinnati 3rd most booming city for technology jobs.

07:05 NMC LinkedIn group – open for discussion but beware of the community banhammer for self-promotion.

08:41 Lisa Desatnik asked about suggested for preventing spam trackbacks on her WordPress blogs. Daniel uses the Disqus commenting plugin; Matthew uses a commenting plugin that uses Facebook Connect. Try Akismet (no longer free), Bad Behavior, Spam Karma (neither of have experience with that one)

14:17 Poll shared by Joanne Maly: Will You Abandon Facebook for Google Plus? – Most people say they won’t just yet.

15:14 Charles Egerton shared a link: Why Texting Is the Most Important Information Service in the World

16:50 Props to Crystal Thies, the LinkedIn Black Belt Ninja, for sharing things you didn’t realize you could do in LinkedIn for Tech Tuesday at the Clermont Chamber of Commerce. Very interesting are the different applications, honors/awards, projects, custom company pages, and using Signal to search status updates.

Connect with Matthew:

Twittter: @evinsmj
Website: http://evinsmj.net
Professional: http://mevinsconsulting.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/evinsmj

Connect with Daniel:

Twitter: @danieljohnsonjr
Website: http://danieljohnsonjr.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr
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Music played on this podcast comes from MusicAlley by Mevio. Used by permission.
Intro music is “Surf Babe” by Alamantra
Closing music is “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Blake Morgan

Betty Hakes gave this presentation at the April Second Saturday event.

We’ll update this page with audio when it’s available.

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• Affliate Marketing in 1997, Now & the Future (cash-bandit.com)

The Steering Committee has been discussing possible questions around privacy, the web, and social networking tools in preparation for tomorrow’s Second Saturday event.

Some background posts and resources that have prompted our discussion:

• Facebook Brings Facial Recognition to Photo Tagging
• Facebook Users Upload Record-Breaking 750M Photos Over New Year’s Weekend
• Help! My Boss Wants To Be My Friend On Facebook!
• Facebook’s Privacy Guide
• Foursquare Responds To Please Rob Me: Please Shut Up
• On foursquare, location, & privacy…

Twenty Questions About Online Nakedness And Privacy

The order below is in no particular importance, but useful for reference in the comments:

1. What are some must-haves for your privacy on a Facebook Business page? What are your must-haves for privacy on Facebook?
2. How private is too private? If you keep yourself totally locked down, then doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being social on social networks?
3. Does your IT department block social networking sites at your work? What is their rationale, and how does this hinder your ability to use social networking sites on your job?
4. From a legal standpoint, what can I do to protect what my employees are saying online, either as explicit representatives of my company/brand, or as themselves but otherwise associated with my company/brand?
5. What is your personal strategy for using Facebook? Do you use it to connect with family and old friends, or do you use it for business? Is there a way to keep them separate?
6. What steps have you taken on social networking sites to keep your profile private?
7. Were pictures of you among the 750M uploaded to Facebook on New Year’s Weekend?
8. What do you do when you realize you’ve been tagged in a photo? What if a questionable photo was live on your page for a week, and you happened to be offline but your boss and colleagues were not?
9. Should you or have you connected with your boss on Facebook?
10. What is going on with Facebook’s Instant Personalization? What are its benefits to me, and what can I do if I don’t want it enabled?
11. Should you really be concerned about posting where you are on sites like Foursquare and Gowalla or Facebook Places? Should you be concerned about the premise of PleaseRobMe.com?
12. Should you “geotag” your tweets (updates from Twitter)?
13. How can I manage what I say on Twitter best protect my privacy?
14. Describe some potential situations in real life in which you think it would not be best to connect online.
15. How do you tactfully decline a connection request (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz, etc.)?
16. How do you remove a connection/friend on these social networking sites? Do they get notified when I do this?
17. How does posting content online affect your career? We want our businesses to be high profile, but what about the behavior of our employees when that content is less than attractive?
18. Is there a benefit to having lists or groups of people on Facebook? Is there a way to control what people in these lists see? (Limited profile settings, perhaps?)
19. Should I accept a Friend request from a profile that is a business (i.e., not a human at a business)? Facebook friend vs Facebook page, etc., on Foursquare, too.
20. What benefit, if any, is there to being connecting with a venue on Foursquare?

Related articles

• Report: Facebook and Twitter Most Unsafe Social Networking Sites in 2010 (socialtimes.com)
• Ways to Protect Your Privacy on Social Networking Websites Like Facebook (computersight.com)
• Social Networking Etiquette (thinkup.waldenu.edu)
• How to Control Your Privacy With Foursquare and Other Geolocation Services (socialmediatoday.com)
• 4 Quick and Easy Ways to Protect Your Online Self in 2011 (socialtimes.com)
• What Your Business Needs to Know About Social Graphs (socialmediaexaminer.com)
• Year in Ideas: Social networking and the end of privacy (nationalpost.com)

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• Intellectual Property Rights Protection (socyberty.com)

Here are some video comments I recorded in response the the reaction to this month’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday being monetized.

Audio and video are not well-synced, and that probably indicates I should stop trying to record directly from my webcam into YouTube.

Click here to watch the embedded video.

As mentioned in the video, I think the discussion on finding value is one we should continue to have and it will be the topic for next month’s Second Saturday event.

Some related posts worth checking out:

• Laura Fitton is right. PodCamp was never free. (christopherspenn.com)
• Finding Value (managingthegray.com)

Crossposted to danieljohnsonjr.com

UPDATE: In case you didn’t already hear, this event is now FREE; i.e., no cover charge, no ticket charge, etc. You’ll still be responsible for your own bill at The Pub, however.

New Media Cincinnati began in October 2007 as a simple meetup group of people in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky areas who were passionate about new and social media technologies like blogging, podcasting, Twitter, etc.

The group consists of people who are using new and social media for a living, but also includes people who are simply involved as a hobby. Anyone interested in learning more about these technologies and in connecting with others is welcome to attend. New Media Cincinnati has become, as one attendee remarked, “the premiere social networking event in the Greater Cincinnati area.” The group’s mission has grown to one of promoting digital literacy in our community.

People who come to New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays

• make and foster business and personal connections with at least one other person,
• have face-to-face time with social media connections made online,
• learn from one another about social media technologies as we share best practices and other tips
• have the chance to talk about their own online presence
• have opportunities to share something they know with the rest of the group
• partake of food and drink and in general have a great time!

Connecting at New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays has led to new business and employment for some.

Sponsors

This month’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday is being brought to you by Daniel Johnson, Jr., The Pub at Rookwood Mews, and EJM Designs, a web design and internet marketing company.  Follow Eric on Twitter (@ejmdesigns) and check out his blog at http://ejmdesigns.blogspot.com.

Special thanks to The Pub for their continued partnership and support of New Media Cincinnati in 2010; follow them on Twitter @PubRookwood.

If you or your company is interested in sponsoring New Media Cincinnati, please get in touch with Daniel Johnson, Jr. for details.

Topic: Privacy in Social Media

As a springboard from last month’s discussion about Google Buzz, as well as some other news over the past month about location-based social networking tools, this month we will have a panel discussion on Privacy in Social Media. We will have three panelists approach their use of social media with different levels of privacy.

As always, we will leave ample time for the open networking that so many of us enjoy.

Event Details

• Event Tags
  • Twitter: #newmediacincy
  • Elsewhere: newmediacincy
• Questions? Contact Daniel Johnson, Jr. via the Contact page or see below.

More about the New Media Cincinnati web presence can be found at the website.

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Hey gang!

We’ve just sold out of all the tickets for tomorrow’s event. I know we’re all looking forward to getting together at The Pub tomorrow. We’ve just sold out the event!

I encourage you to check out the event page to see the list of who’s all coming; there are a number of you will be there for the first time tomorrow. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Some things to keep in mind:

• Special thanks again to The Pub for letting us use their patio, and to Chad Middleton from Outerwoven (http://twitter.com/outerwoven) for sponsoring the event. I know we’re looking forward to hearing what he has to say about how the tax changes in 2009 affect us as employees and business owners in the coming year.
• The Bengals-Jets playoff game will be happening around the time of our meeting. That may mean that parking spaces in the Pub’s lot could be taken up. I encourage you to use the parking garage across from The Pub – it’s free, too.
• My friend Bernie Warren (http://twitter.com/berniewarren) will be helping out with name tags. I’ll have blank tags and markers for you to write your name and, if you’d like, something you’re looking forward to in the New Year. Thanks for your help in advance, Bernie!
• You are encouraged to bring your cameras, mobile devices, laptops, etc. and create content during the event about the event.
• It looks like we’re going to be able to stream the event to the internet via UStream again. Thank you again to Don (http://twitter.com/drsceifers) and Vickie Sceifers (http://twitter.com/editvdo) for all your work in getting this done!
• If you haven’t already become a fan of New Media Cincinnati on Facebook, I encourage you to do so: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cincinnati-OH/New-Media-Cincinnati/77571459981

Agenda:

4:00-4:50 Arrive, open networking

4:50-5:00 Opening remarks, thank you to sponsors, and intro of speaker by Daniel Johnson, Jr.

5:00-5:30 Featured speaker: Chad Middleton, Outerwoven

5:30-7:00 Continued discussion and open networking

As always, if you have any questions, problems, or comments, please get in touch with me.

Make it a great day!

Daniel Johnson, Jr.
513.373.4442
http://twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr
http://twitter.com/newmediacincy

Event: January 2010 New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday
Date: Saturday, January 09, 2010 from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (ET)

Location:
The Pub Rookwood Mews
2692 Madison Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45208

For more information click here: January 2010 New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday

New Media Cincinnati began in October 2007 as a simple meetup group of people in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky areas who were passionate about new and social media technologies like blogging, podcasting, Twitter, etc.