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Facebook Changing the Width of Custom Application Tabs

Facebook has recently announced that they would be reducing the width of the custom application tabs from 760 pixels to 520 pixels in early 2010. I have not yet seen this change take place but Facebook is saying that the change is being made to accommodate some changes in their home design. You can read [...]


SXSW Extending the Interactive Panel Picker through Labor Day

Mountains of tweets, blog posts, emails and all out begging has been going on for the past few weeks as the New Media Fishbowl has been trying to get their panels approved for South by Southwest. The staff at SXSW has decided to continue to torture us by extending the voting period though the end [...]


How Cool Would it be? A Crowd Sourced Trip…

This is Part One in a two part series called “How Cool Would it be? ACrowd Sourced Trip… In post number one I will share my ideas, while in post number two I will take your ideas as well as mine and show how this could be implemented strategically. In about three weeks my wife [...]


Skills for the Social Media Ninja – Part 1 (Monitoring)

I love hearing the term Social Media Expert and seeing how widely debated the term is among different peer groups. I am far from “Ninja” status, but I can honestly say that I spend many hours training at the Dojo each day. I also love to hear when folks say “Your already a social media [...]


Is your blog or website “Real People” friendly?

Have you ever been walking down a busy street and glanced at the person on the left or right of you and wondered, “If this person visited my blog or website would they have a clue what half of the features are?” I have! Now,maybe that makes me weird, but I know for fact that [...]


Tim Coyne, The Hollywood Podcast, and ‘Chuck’ – Creatives and Community Podcast #2

Just this weekend I had the chance to talk with Tim Coyne of the Hollywood Podcast for episode #2 of the creatives and community podcast. We talked about everything from his podcasting and new media efforts all the way to his debut tonight at 8PM EST on NBC’s show Chuck. If you don’t have a [...]


Challenges in online community management.

As a community manager for Best Buy Remix I am facing some pretty daunting challenges. They are resulting from a number of things. I wonder how many people are trying to use web 2.0 tools to these levels? Am I trying to stretch it too far? Is there a solution I don’t know about? This [...]


Professional Video Collaboration… Community Style

Elastic Lab Using the Power of Social Media for Professional Content Creation Approximately six months ago I was contacted by my good friend Marina Martin about a new company that she had the the privilege to be working with. Elastic Lab, a professional video production house was to be entering the social media space and [...]


Welcome to keithburtis.com!

Hello old friends, new friends, and friends to be. This is my newly created personal blog. I decided that I wanted to create a place where I could talk about community, social media, business, work, life, family, love, hope, success and not feel constrained by the limits of a specific niche. Many of you may [...]