TechCrunch has the news tonight: Scoble to leave Fast Company.
Back in 2003 I wrote a Corporate Blogging Manifesto. Rule #13 is “don’t write if your life is in turmoil.”
It’s even harder to write when you are negotiating for stuff. But it’s really harder when you also are trying to deal with your career while continuing to do your job. This week I uploaded something like 20 videos to Fast Company TV. Whew! I am visiting as many companies as I can as quickly as I can (yesterday I saw two more, today I’m visiting another three) so that I can get a good bead on what I should build next and also to get some ideas of where to take my blog.
I’m building up quite a white board of things I’m going to do here. One thing is I’ll be moving off of WordPress.com soon to a hosted version of WordPress. That way I can really play with some of the newer plugins and widgets that I haven’t been able to use here.
Also, I’m really loving the new low-cost cameras like the Flip Mino HD, which costs about $200. Almost all of my most recent videos on Fast Company TV were shot on these low-cost cameras.
Anyway, I can’t talk about what I’m doing next yet because it’s not completely decided. I’m working on that and hope it’s in shape so we can announce something at the SXSW conference.
Oh, one thing I’ve learned over the past year, and especially this past month, is who my real friends are. Thanks to Bob Safian at Fast Company for helping guide me (I’ll still be writing a column for Fast Company thanks to him and David Lidsky, my editor). Kudos to Rocky Barbanica, who was my producer. In the past couple of weeks I’ve learned I can’t replace him by not sleeping. My editing sucks and it’s good to have someone thinking about shots, audio, and all that. Thanks to Seagate for being a dream sponsor the past two years. They did everything I asked them to do and they rarely asked me to do anything in return and they made doing hundreds of videos per year possible. Seagate deserves lots of credit for supporting the startups who always got on my show for free thanks to their sponsorship (lots of other places, like the Demo Conference, charge startups to get access to the audiences they’ve aggregated). Thanks to Brian and Julie over at Seagate for all the great support over the years we’ve been partnering together.
Well, onward, I’ll be back here more soon. Thanks!
Hey Robert,
If you’re open to great ideas, lets talk. (http://media.tearn.com/2009/01/robert-scoble-blogger-extraordinaire.html)
If you have great ideas, we can make it happen, fast.
Go for your dream!
Go for your dream!
Robert,
Whatever comes next for you I’m betting it will be huge. I look forward to seeing what it will be. Best wishes!
Robert,
Whatever comes next for you I’m betting it will be huge. I look forward to seeing what it will be. Best wishes!
Robert … best wishes in whatever comes next. Keep smiling!
Robert … best wishes in whatever comes next. Keep smiling!
Good luck in your next adventure. And, thank you for the rule #13 – it’s given some great guidance for the coming weeks for my own work
Good luck in your next adventure. And, thank you for the rule #13 – it’s given some great guidance for the coming weeks for my own work
See you as SXSW. Exciting times indeed. As my friend Tom Morey once told us, it doesn’t take an expensive drum kit to play some sweet beats. Play your notes, express – the space is yours to fill.
See you as SXSW. Exciting times indeed. As my friend Tom Morey once told us, it doesn’t take an expensive drum kit to play some sweet beats. Play your notes, express – the space is yours to fill.
While video is very popular, I think your writing skills are even better. Maybe a change of pace is warranted. Thoughtful opinion pieces on the technology scene and the people who are involved from veterans to newcomers. It will also give you more time with the family.
While video is very popular, I think your writing skills are even better. Maybe a change of pace is warranted. Thoughtful opinion pieces on the technology scene and the people who are involved from veterans to newcomers. It will also give you more time with the family.
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Good luck man! Love your blog!
Good luck man! Love your blog!
spins are — great…
spins are — great…
Mazel Tov! Change is good for the soul. I am confident that you will succeed (again).
You were the first A-lister that I ever called and had a conversation with when you were wandering around the Washington Mall.
mak
Mazel Tov! Change is good for the soul. I am confident that you will succeed (again).
You were the first A-lister that I ever called and had a conversation with when you were wandering around the Washington Mall.
mak
Robert, best of luck in your new adventures. Of course, you’ll succeed wildly. …Very smart Rule #13 — you’ll help a lot of people with that, I’m sure. …Given your transition, I sure hope you’ll say yes to my invite to have you back on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show. (Emailing you now privately.)
Robert, best of luck in your new adventures. Of course, you’ll succeed wildly. …Very smart Rule #13 — you’ll help a lot of people with that, I’m sure. …Given your transition, I sure hope you’ll say yes to my invite to have you back on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show. (Emailing you now privately.)
i think you are going to do something with video, no?
i think you are going to do something with video, no?
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Robert,
How am I going to write something inspiring for you to put on your wall at the next company if you don’t tell me where you’re going?
Sorry that you’re leaving FC – Inc. just asked me back for blogging, so you’ll see more of me there.
Won’t see you at SXSW, but will look for you at Web 2.0.
Robert,
How am I going to write something inspiring for you to put on your wall at the next company if you don’t tell me where you’re going?
Sorry that you’re leaving FC – Inc. just asked me back for blogging, so you’ll see more of me there.
Won’t see you at SXSW, but will look for you at Web 2.0.
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I’m not going to sugar coat this. Seagate just dumped your million dollar contract. You should get extremely drunk and spend a month hopping from bar to bar.
The good times that let you live this lifestyle won’t be back for at least 5 years.
Get depressed, get very depressed.
I’m not going to sugar coat this. Seagate just dumped your million dollar contract. You should get extremely drunk and spend a month hopping from bar to bar.
The good times that let you live this lifestyle won’t be back for at least 5 years.
Get depressed, get very depressed.
Robert: see you at SXSW next week. Just add me to the long list of folks wishing you well. That said, you’ll navigate these uncertain waters better than just about anybody I would think.
Thanks,
LionelatDell
Robert: see you at SXSW next week. Just add me to the long list of folks wishing you well. That said, you’ll navigate these uncertain waters better than just about anybody I would think.
Thanks,
LionelatDell
Always onward and upward, Robert. We’ll be with you wherever you go! (Note that I’m not saying ‘Good luck’, because I don’t really believe in “luck”
Always onward and upward, Robert. We’ll be with you wherever you go! (Note that I’m not saying ‘Good luck’, because I don’t really believe in “luck”
Robert- First, Chris is a moron. Second, I really did like working with you. We had a lot of fun and accomplished even more. Can you still keep a secret? I doubt it!
Rocky-
Robert- First, Chris is a moron. Second, I really did like working with you. We had a lot of fun and accomplished even more. Can you still keep a secret? I doubt it!
Rocky-
Your one of my fave tweeters. i hope all goes well. Forced changes have always worked out my way, with lots of worry in between. I would never got into the games industry without being fired by the lawyer (pronounced liar, lol) I worked for, and never gotten out of games in time without problems. I could go on, but I wish you all the best wishes.
Your one of my fave tweeters. i hope all goes well. Forced changes have always worked out my way, with lots of worry in between. I would never got into the games industry without being fired by the lawyer (pronounced liar, lol) I worked for, and never gotten out of games in time without problems. I could go on, but I wish you all the best wishes.
If your next endeavor is a targeted business, would love to get you blogging on Compendium Blogware.
Either way, I’ll still be reading and following. Best of luck.
If your next endeavor is a targeted business, would love to get you blogging on Compendium Blogware.
Either way, I’ll still be reading and following. Best of luck.
Great to hear from you – I had been having withdrawals.
good luck. hope you still blog. this is the only tech blog i follow and i love your business and career insight also.
Great to hear from you – I had been having withdrawals.
good luck. hope you still blog. this is the only tech blog i follow and i love your business and career insight also.
For two hundred thousand years social networks were simultaneously economic networks. If that were true with today’s social media, then we wouldn’t be in such a horrible mess.
If you want to help, then I suggest you put your weight behind getting advertising distribution turned over to social media users via an open ad network. This would make companies more accountable and allow tons of people to start making money from the Internet. This would inject trust back into buying, increase consumer confidence, and rebuild the world’s economy from the ground up.
For two hundred thousand years social networks were simultaneously economic networks. If that were true with today’s social media, then we wouldn’t be in such a horrible mess.
If you want to help, then I suggest you put your weight behind getting advertising distribution turned over to social media users via an open ad network. This would make companies more accountable and allow tons of people to start making money from the Internet. This would inject trust back into buying, increase consumer confidence, and rebuild the world’s economy from the ground up.
oops, I put in my old blog address. The new one is here and explains how Silicon Valley can turn this around:
http://dawnsplan.wordpress.com/
oops, I put in my old blog address. The new one is here and explains how Silicon Valley can turn this around:
http://dawnsplan.wordpress.com/
Thanks ,it s nice to “hear your reason where you have been not here and write some inspirations for me.however.I am glad to hear your back,and one thing ,when you get another time of turmoil,just be here ,and write some confession, with that action I am sure,Hundreds of us,will be ready to Offered you “something”hope that not much word to say here
Thanks ,it s nice to “hear your reason where you have been not here and write some inspirations for me.however.I am glad to hear your back,and one thing ,when you get another time of turmoil,just be here ,and write some confession, with that action I am sure,Hundreds of us,will be ready to Offered you “something”hope that not much word to say here
Like others, this too is one of the few blogs I follow – going to check out that camera. Hoping to hear from you again soon.