it's taken five years to get to this point.

by that i mean it feels that it's taken me five years to be ready from a digital footprint space to be a brand advocate for technology and brands that i enjoy.

the .tv advocacy has been an amazing validation of blogging and being a videoblogger. more and more companies are realising that they need advocates out in the digital frontier and ontheground at events fighting their corner for actual real life usage.

every manufacturer is tightening up on r&d and development these days and companies/brands can be made or broken based on quality products and the background ethics of the business via social media channels in a moment.

we live in a realtime, on demand world with a customer, consumer base of people globally that demand devices, technology and elements that help us live our lives. the true power of social media elements to the engagement of people in all chains of a business are here. it's allowing anyone to connect with a brand and visa versa.

my advocacy is quite simple. and that's why it works well for me. it's a paid blogger position that requires me to produce video media, blog posts or social network support as a remote advocate (read: almost a virtual worker invested in the companies projects and products) basically doing the things i'm already doing with fibrecamp but as part of a team of already well respected social media people who have been building up their own personal brands for the last few years.

i'm very keen to show some of the more dynamic cleantech, greentech companies in nottingham how to do the things i do across a variety of services so they can get their message out about the products they are working on.

it's a really exciting arena - fusing together new technology, new ethical ways of working with technology that invests much needed thought about the ramifications of the devices they are making and how we use them.

this makes for really interesting video content for the realtime web and opens up a new fibrecamp space that we are very keen to move into and document -- i'm hoping we can use our .tv advocacy to launch a cleantech .tv channel for the east midlands and nottingham area.

i think all companies that do business over the internet should have brand advocates even if just internal workers who have a clear outline of what they can do and say via social networks within the business all over the world in a digitally connected sense.

it's daytime somewhere in the world and people want information about your brand, do you have the right operatives in the right location?

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quicklink | galacticast (node666)

so @tom_geraghty asked the question late last night, i think i must have crashed an hour out before he sent this out.  i'm guessing this was some drinking fuelled tweeting on toms behalf but i think it was a totally valid question.  i think the greens windmill is a good choice.  vantage points for taking out daily bunches of local zombies with a nice view of the hill.  

had to repost this video that the videobloggers of the yahoo community group i was part of in 2005/06 when i first started getting into regular video blogging using blip.tv as my video host of choice.  i really need to start going through all that content - it's a past life that i need to start adding some ambient context too.  i have like 4 years worth of video moments that i need to start to have a proper catalog of.

maybe when the ipad2 drops i'll start to progress that player idea i have. ...

it will be a shame that seesmic.tv will go down tomorrow.   i need to record an audioboo about what was the awesomeness that was seesmic, the fact that the threads of conversation will probably be consigned to the depths of nowhere are a big shame.  having all of my videos will be great but it's just a shame that they will no longer make much sense if they are not able to be played in the conversation format thread that they existed in.

if i was a smart bear, i would work out how to stich together all the public threads and release those somewhere into an archive.org location - but that's me, because i do things that have an archive value later on.

it's a shame we throw money at things that have so much potential to fundamentally change the way people interact with one another only for them to be ripped away because of maintenance, market share and lack of future vision.  

RIP seesmic.  i knew you so well.. .

quicklink | http://areyoudisconnected.co.uk

seriously.  i know how lucky i am.