Category Archives: My Services

My Little Circulation Celebration

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Well, I told myself I was going to have a little celebration when I hit 100 subscribers to my RSS feed. That happened this morning. Woo hoo! I’m really glad that 100+ of you find the info here of enough interest to stay subscribed. I will try and keep posting things that are useful and interesting. Readers who are unfamiliar with RSS, or who don’t know how life changing it is should check out my Intro to RSS.

Here’s how the numbers break down, in case it’s of interest. I hope this isn’t obnoxious enough that people unsubscribe!

Introductions to Blogging, RSS, Tagging Posted

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So, in the spirit of being more accessible to new users, I have finally taken the time to post some introductory articles here and link them from the sidebar. Now when visitors to this site look on the side, one of the first things they’ll see is:

Introductions to:

Please do check out the intros and share any suggestions for revisions. Readers of my old blog may remember that I had posted there introductions to wikis and podcasting as well. For now at least, I’m just going to concentrate on these three items on the list. The field of Web2.0 tools is so huge that I need to specialize to some degree. I’ll keep reading and posting about various weird tools, but what I really want to be doing with clients is setting them up with the life-changing pyramid of feeds, tagging and blogging.

Feeds can be set up to automatically deliver information on any subject and items of interest can be tagged into your social bookmarking archive. This information then makes great fodder for blogging. It’s a beautiful system, really.

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Blogger is Down Right Now

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After trying to load a blog hosted on blogspot and failing, I noticed in my RSS reader that Blogger is having database problems today. They say that some sites are unavailable and the service in general is slow. You can check out the Blogger Status site for updates. If you use blogger, you should subscribe to the RSS feed for that page. I subscribe to the company feeds for all the vendors that I know any of my clients use, and I put them in a seperate folder. So I get pretty fast information on service problems – automatically. At least I do from companies that are communicating with their customers.

For other advice on getting your RSS feeds organized, check out “Getting RSS Organized.” For an in-depth introduction and list of RSS resources, check out RSS Syndication: What, How and Why.

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My Services

I work as a trainer and consultant in the use of Web2.0 tools. These include:

  • Blogging – publishing short writings online, quickly and easily, as part of the interlinked conversation in the blogosphere
  • Social Bookmarking- get your bookmarks off your browser, make them richer, reusable and sharable or private
  • Advanced Search – find what you want quickly, even automatically (before you know it’s there to find)
  • RSS (rich site summary/really simple syndication) – create your own personalized newsdesk for headlines, updates, emails and anything else you want delivered into one place to save time and know more, faster
  • Podcasting – listen to and create “radio on demand” for communication with the world or members of your organization, whenever and wherever is convenient for them to listen
  • Wikis – webpages that anyone with permission can change, with all previous versions saved and automatic notification when changes are made. Great for group development of documents.

Seperately or used together, these are incredible tools that open exciting possibilities for research and communication. I can teach you how to use, integrate or upgrade your application of any of these tools. In some cases, I can be hired to use these tools myself to assist in your projects.

I like to work with:

  • Non-profit groups
  • Small businesses
  • Individual activists and academics
  • Other web2.0 enthusiasts and technologists

The easiest way for me to help you is to have me perform a blog or web site optimization or evaluation for you. Send me an email about it!

Blog optimization is one of the things I’m best at. Be sure to check out a selection of feedback from my previous clients and my list of recent citations elsewhere on the web (sidebar).

Client Feedback

This is what some of my recent clients have said about my work with them:

“We’re very excited at the expertise and experience Marshall brings to our blogging enterprise.”
-Curt Hopkins, Director
The Committee to Protect Bloggers

“Invaluable…very informative and very well thought out.”
-Emily Howard, anti-racism organizer

“Since I’ve been in communication with Marshall, I feel like for the first time I have a clear picture of what’s really out there on the web.”
-Justin Kistner, Founder
The Portland Internet Company

I hope you’ll contact me to work with you or your organization. Or attend one of my online training sessions in the use of new web tools.

My Contact Info

I can be contacted in the following ways:

  • by email: marshallk@marshallk.com
  • Skype: marshallkirkpatrick
  • Gizmo:marshallkirkpatrick (another VOIP program just like Skype, but with one-click record.)
  • AIM: MarshallKirkpatr

Feel free to contact me with any questions you have. Or, if you are interested in recording a conversation together as a podcast, send me an email with whatever ideas you have. Wouldn’t that be fun?