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Personal weblog of Robyn Tippins, PR and online media consultant, social networking industry analyst, podcaster, journalist, SEO junkie and gaming geek.

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  • All Me Posts Are Pirate Speak Now Mateys

    Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 01:27 in blogging, geek, community, Yahoo!, talk like a pirate, pirate day

    Support your favorite pirate today! Yeah, it’s on the 19th this year, but I like to party like a pirate a little early. Never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day? Only cool people do it, so if you aren’t doing it… Well, you already ...

  • Robyn Tippins at ConvergeSC

    Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 14:19 in Web 2.0, social networking, community, Yahoo!

    Marketing Socially: Robyn Tippins from Converge SC on Vimeo. FYI, the very first of my talk is cut off, but what you miss is my telling you that I started a diaper company in 1998, at age 22, and in month one, using forums to market it, we grossed ~$...

  • NetworkSolutions - Solutions Stars Videos

    Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 19:19 in Personal, blogging, Web 2.0, Advertising, social networking, affiliate, pr, problogger, Yahoo!

    At BlogWorld Expo, I was interviewed by Network Solutions to answer a few questions that their customers might have. There are a serious of almost a dozen videos up now, with some major big names in social media, but with my ego being monstrous, I&#...

  • Open Yahoo! - Hackday 2008

    Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 13:16 in Web 2.0, geek, Yahoo!, open

    It’s always nice to be around a throng of smart people, but when those people are developers and those developers are crazy creative and ready to hack, it makes your day even better. Hackday 08 has finally arrived! Since Web 2.0 Expo, a few tr...

  • Open HackDay At Yahoo!

    Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 14:30 in geek, Yahoo!

    This is one of those things that you don’t want to miss. It’s limited to a few hundred developers and priority is being given to those devs who are hacking. Please request an invite here and add your name to Upcoming if you want to atte...

  • Community Management Wiki

    Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 16:24 in Web 2.0, social networking, Yahoo!

    Tilly and I set up a wiki over the weekend (thanks to a HUGE load of help from Wetpaint) and the barebones of our Community Managers group is up and running now. Community Managers Wiki I love working with CMs because they are motivated!  I sent out...

  • Goodbye Yahoo! Developer Network Interns!

    Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 22:33 in geek, vlog, Yahoo!

    Yahoo! Developer Network - Interns! from mattt on Vimeo....

  • Mojave Experiment - Vista Revisited

    Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 23:20 in Yahoo!

    I hate Vista. Seriously. After hours of trying to get the damn thing to install on more than 3 PCs, running the beta for 6 months and then running the OS from Jan 07 to May 07, I hate this OS. Leopard had me at hello, but Vista pissed me off withi...

  • Yahoo Offers Up OpenID

    Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 12:10 in geek, Yahoo!, open

    Via TC: But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only approximately 120 million valid OpenID accounts. In one move, Yahoo more than triples that number. I found ou...

  • Google Makes More Enemies

    Posted on Saturday November 17th, 2007 at 14:17 in problogger, Yahoo!

    I can never understand what it is that makes a large company think that they are indestructible, but apparently Google continues to believe that because they are the god of search that this will always remain the case. (Disclosure, I work for a sear...

  • BlogWorld Expo Highlights

    Posted on Sunday November 11th, 2007 at 03:01 in geek, Yahoo!

    I just got back from BlogWorld Expo and am still decompressing. I’m not going to try to list everyone here, but suffice it to say I met loads of cool people, Liz being my usual partner in crime, as always, Wendy and Christina joining in when po...

  • A Few Yahoo! Product Suggestions

    Posted on Friday October 26th, 2007 at 09:39 in geek, Yahoo!

    I’ve taken some time over the last few weeks to pay attention to different Yahoo! services. In addition to being an employee I’m a huge Y! service lover, from Upcoming to Del.icio.us, from Music to Widgets, they’ve really built/boug...