http://chadhutchins.com Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:42:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article, authored by Tony Wright, is a nice breakdown of the traits of two types of entrepreneurs; builder entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurs. Builder entrepreneurs are those who "designed, coded, played sysadmin, and played all sorts of other production roles for their startups". Tony goes on to write that business ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/24/im-a-builder-entrepreneur-what-are-you/ As social media continues to sneak its way into the mainstream, several are trying to figure out the optimal way to engage their users, clients, members, students, opportunities, constituents... the list goes on. The best way to start understanding how social media may work for your situation is to start ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/21/enjoy-marketing-simple-steps-to-using-social-media/ I found a handful of interesting links this morning from my Google Alerts I thought I would share, all having to do with social media and how it is playing a big part in today's world. The following article does a fine job explaining how social media played a large ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/18/how-obama-really-won-the-election-and-more/ Interesting video interview with the Ruby on Rails founder. source: O'Reilly Also... testing to see if my Wordpress Twitter Updater Plugin is working. http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/12/short-interview-with-ruby-on-rails-founder/ What is that, you ask? Social Web Research is something for everyone. The world is changing. Traditional marketing mediums are losing their competitive edge. Look at how president-elect Obama took the election, with a grass-roots, very much web-enabled approach. By using the social web mediums, Obama and his team were ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/11/social-web-research-launches/ Although I would rather the election to have gone the other way, in McCain's favor, I feel Barrack has the potential to do a lot of good. So, in short, this is all I have to say. Congrats Obama. http://chadhutchins.com/2008/11/04/congratulations-to-barrack-obama/ A few of my friends are convinced that they need to learn a programming language, and I am very excited about that. Having web programming experience is unbelievably valuable, especially if you plan to do any business in the web-o-sphere. Before you can lock yourself in your room for a ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/09/13/want-to-make-a-website-start-here/ Last night, a few friends and I had dinner with Michael Staton, a founder of Inigral. Michael has been in Abilene this week visiting ACU. ACU will be piloting Inigral's Schools on Facebook. In our conversation, an interesting topic was brought up about the make up of a successful start-up. ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/09/11/michael-staton-web-start-ups/ Back during my TeacherHubs.com splint, I somehow corresponded with Jeff O'Hara, one of the founders of Edmodo. Edmodo is a micro-blogging service for the education niche. If you are familiar with Kevin Rose's and friends' Pownce.com you can easily imagine what Edmodo is, simply by imagining Pownce catered to Teachers ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/09/02/edmodo-the-pownce-of-education/ Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. From the Digg article description: "Today we’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more ... http://chadhutchins.com/2008/08/27/mozilla-labs-introducing-ubiquity/