Follow The Prince

Follow The Prince

Archive for April, 2011

Finally, a subject that has no distinct answer.  Love is perceived as a polarity of hate, which in this case, values it an extreme measure.  This instantly creates stipulations around this unfamiliar subject.

When you see love in movies or television, you are being projected a vision of stability and limitation.  Guarantees and rules do not enable anything to truly grow.  At least, not like “network effects“.

I see love in everything.  In this blog post.  Behind the products of Facebook.  Layered in the keys of Avicci‘s beats.  How my mother thinks about me.  During the creation of Prometheus Springs.  The way I truly get excited when I see someone experience that same feeling. In preparation for TED talks from their speakers.  In everything, but only in moments.

When thinking about love it is more balanced than anything.  It happens without force and unfolds naturally.

Take all of the successful networks and new businesses that are growing exponentially.  They are all companies that deliver love.  Their intentions are to build products that people love.  In doing so, employee’s make sure to build things they love.  In turn, there is an exponential effect that we are only beginning to understand.

Writing this post about love to hopefully inspire you to look at everything with love, is simply love.

What is love to you?


 

Are you a celebrity or do you manage a celebrity brand? Are you looking to humanize your online identity?  Well then this is for the both of you.  There is not much content targeted for celebrities to consume, so I thought this would help a little bit for the artists looking to manage and grow their following online.  These 7 tools will get you started on your road to connecting your community.

WhoSay is a service that helps artists, athletes and iconic personalities connect with their fans. When you see someone posting via WhoSay, you’ll know that it’s real, authentic messages, photos and videos coming from your favorite people.  As an artist you own your content, as it is then ‘pushed’ to your preferred networks as a WhoSay post.  WhoSay is growing their business model with their celebrities to create more opportunities for online monetizing.

Celebrity endorsements in social media.  I have never worked with Ad.ly but have colleagues who have.  Test it out for yourself.

Started as platform for musicians, however the digital game is enabling musicians, actors, directors, writers, and any form of artist to use mp3, video, and various forms of intellectual property to connect with their audiences.  Topspin connects you to your fans by creating tools that help you market, sell, and track your results across the web.

iTunes is self explanatory.  They had a record earning this 2011 Q1 for over $1.5b!  You can sell anything digital on here.  Awesome.  Use it.

This is the most artistic community on the web, besides those awesome people over at DeviantArt.com.  Like every single artist in the world, seriously.  Maybe Tumblr will squash Twitter?  I really really like this and yes it is necessary to have this, a twitter, and a facebook.

Obviously the most gigantic network on the planet.  Literally.  People keep saying 500 million users, but that was last year.  I’d say at about 750m now and 1 billion by the end of the year.  It’s not stopping.  I guess if you don’t want your product social, then don’t use it.  Oh yeah, and Facebook Credits are basically the new monetary system.

Not sure how long this will last, but it’s good for now.  My twitter followers have already trickled to my other networks, so the dependance on this platform is sketchy.  They are currently in turmoil at the offices and there hasn’t been much innovation.  However, I hope they turn it out.  Ironic to me it seems that what everyone says about Twitter is actually true about Facebook, while all the negative comments about Facebook actually reflect more on Twitter’s actions.  None the less, it’s a great tool and I hope someone Facebook’s this MySpace.

 

If you have any suggestions on tools that celebrities, artists, or individuals looking to grow their online social presence, then please leave them in the comments.  How have your experiences been with these tools?