February 12th, 2009
Not sure why I’m posting this video…
by Joshua Porter | 
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…because I can’t stand watching footage of myself, but I just stumbled upon an interview of me at last year’s Voices that Matter Conference in Nashville. I figured some folks out there might find it humorous/silly/blackmail material.
Designing for the Social Web with Joshua Porter
WARNING I did not wear any makeup for this interview. The producer people seemed to want me to put some on, and I said “Can I not?”. They weren’t pleased about that…but I wanted the world to see me in my natural state, you know? Next thing you know I’ll be Dove-transformed into Matthew McConaughey.
Anyway, it’s an interview in which I explain a couple high-level ideas from my book Designing for the Social Web. We talk about:
- The Usage Lifecycle
- What newspapers can do to get more readers
- The problem of sign-up
- Having authentic conversations with your audience
There is also a part 2, in which I talk a bit about optimizing for Google, but I can tell you it all right here: write unique, interesting content.
These videos are part of the nice Peachpit Video library, which include videos from speakers that I enjoy learning from such as Jeremy Keith, Molly Holzschlag, Robert Hoekman Jr., Nathan Shedroff, Gene Smith…and well you get the idea.
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1. Michael 3:54am, Fri 13th, 2009
Nice, but not embeddable – would have liked to post it at knallgrau.tv – any way to get it embedded?
2. Josh 5:58am, Fri 13th, 2009
@Michael, not sure. I didn’t see a way to embed it…
3. Jeremy 9:19am, Fri 13th, 2009
Stumbled upon this a few months ago while trying to find a video of you speaking. Good points.
Amen your point about watching videos of oneself, cant stand it. From an objective view though, nice job. I enjoyed it.
4. Amie 2:09pm, Sat 14th, 2009
Just started watching and I have a totally shallow comment: where’s your shoes, Josh?
5. Farhan Ahmad 9:42pm, Sat 14th, 2009
The vacuum tangent, haha
Nice interview. Talking about the sign-ups, I think you will like our (ShopFiber’s) new sign up process
(based on your review).
6. monique 7:13pm, Sun 15th, 2009
the most important is the interview.
Did the interview success?
“in which I talk a bit about optimizing for Google, but I can tell you it all right here: write unique, interesting content”
This is helpful for me, i’ll try to wriet a unique content too. you may review my new blog.
most of them are a unique content.
Monique
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I think that Joshua Porter is good guy. Keep walking forward.
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10. Debbie Chan 1:41pm, Fri 27th, 2009
I have heard unique content is a myth…heard it twice today from some blackhat sites…I am new so don’t know who to follow
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11. Johny 8:25pm, Fri 27th, 2009
I think that there is no duplicate content penalty, however google will filter the duplicate results and show the one that has more authority or popularity.
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12. Nancy 12:36am, Sat 28th, 2009
Well it’s nice, explaining what your up to so that people can actually understand it better. like this wu yi tea it must know by all what it really do.
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I agree with Monique!
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15. me2everyone 10:39am, Sun 29th, 2009
I think Google does two thing with Dup content. They look for both date of the posts as well as the pagerank of it.
16. Angelina 1:48pm, Mon 30th, 2009
Great interview. I wouldn’t have the guts to put up a video of myself.
17. lesterholtco 10:04am, Tue 31st, 2009
Yeah I wish it was an embeddable video, that info would be good on my site.
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