Rob's Mind Flow

Random thoughts. Many topics. Find something interesting to you.

3 Questions you should be asking about your blog

Write on a regular basis, pick topics people care about and be upfront about relationships you have with sponsors.
via michellerafter.wordpress.com

These are very basic questions, but how many times have we failed to aske them about our blog? or any piece of content for that matter.

What is one post per month really worth? what about 7 a day? What does regular mean to you and your audience. It isn't the same for everybody.

Pick topics people care about. Most of the time. If I were to be totally honest, I blog for me not you. I ramble and store ideas. Put things here that have helped me and I want to remember. I hope that you'll read it and learn from it as I have. But I primarily write for myself. It's not that I don't consider the audience that may read this. But I don't have that audience yet. It's not that I consider you the reader it's just that I don't know you yet. Overtime. I'll come to and then perhaps my writing will change a bit - perhaps not. Time will be the tell.

And about sponsors: Obviously, I don't have any now. May not ever have in. But I will be honest here. I won't deceive my readers.

Anyway: Read and learn from the post mentioned above. Enjoy.

MonoTouch Beta

Finally have my beta invite for MonoTouch. Looking forward to digging in, learning, providing the great guys who put it together some feedback and most importantly, building some iPhone apps. I wish I could dig in and get going right now but alas, I have other work to get done. (That’s a good thing.)

I’ll be posting over the next few days and weeks with my experiences using MonoTouch and how well the app building process goes. Curious to think what Apple thinks about using a Microsoft (mostly – c#) to build an app for the iPhone.

Socially Famous

I found this fascinating quote today:

I guess it’s some basic human desire to be famous. Even if it’s just “famous” in certain circles

New Comm Biz » You Do Not Have to be Social Media Famous., Aug 2009

Read the whole article @ http://www.newcommbiz.com/you-do-not-have-to-be-social-media-famous/

If you’re willing to invest the time, Social Media can work for you. Heck, perhaps it will even work for me. Personal investment to learn the tools and take the time to participate. Remember that it is social. Social skills are needed. You still have to be able to carry a conversation.

I’m late to the social media game. But I’m here now and I’m playing. I’m not a quarterback, not even on the field yet, but I’m participating in the practice and keeping the bench warm. I’m building my skills and increasing my knowledge so that when it is my turn or my clients turn to get out on the field I’ll be ready.

Waiting for my MonoTouch Invitation

While the title may seem a bit strange or suggestive it's not. MonoTouch will allow us c# developers to more easily build apps for the iPhone. Take a
look at http://www.mono-project.com/MonoTouch if you want more information. I have some iPhone apps in the works and man would this really speed things up.

If they would just send me my invitation I think my life would be complete. Well, probably not, but I would really like the invite to
participate in the beta. We'll see how it goes.