Jeff McNeill - Internet Marketing - Chiang Mai, Thailand

Just a Post

jeffmcneill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:07:23 +0000

Here there. Now that everyone else has gone home it’s just you and me here. Let me blather on for a few moments, it helps me unwind and I am comfortable doing this with you. Thanks for lending your understanding ear and the sounding board so I can hear myself think and get your feedback. I appreciate that as well. Even when it seems I don’t agree, your words stay with me and I consider them carefully. Because you’re smart and you care, and I trust you.

So I’ve been doing a lot but feeling that I haven’t been doing enough. Sometimes there is frustration. But in retrospect even in the area I feel the slowest in, the results are there. I just need to adjust my mind, sometimes, get the real data, get clear.

Thanks for listening, this helps. And you, how are you doing? Ah, yes. I heard about that. Is that important to you? Ah, I see. I think you are doing great. I was talking with our friend the other day and we are both impressed with how you handle everything, but still make yourself available. One thing that inspires me is the way you show kindness. That is probably the most important thing to do in life, but I forget that, and you help me remember.

Well hey, let’s do this again soon. I miss you when we don’t see each other as often as we should. Cheers, friend.

Nokia N900 with Maemo

jeffmcneill — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:49:49 +0000

Nice. Can’t wait to see competition heat up with Droid, Iphone and this Nokia…

The Future of Work

jeffmcneill — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:41:25 +0000

This is a pretty tasty snack, rife with possibilities. A bit Polyanna-ish and not very even-handed. The world is becoming a hybrid of work styles, not monolithically mobile and on-demand. In any case, this is the sort of work style we have at Lanna Innovation and SEO Chiangmai, namely mobile, from anywhere, but with pulsations of common location meetings. For service delivery we still need a certain percentage of face-to-face, especially in the education division.

Regardless, enjoy this presentation. One particular item of interest was the primary value of outsourcing noted as not being financial but innovation.

The Future Of Work

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Anatomy of Web Projects gone Awry

jeffmcneill — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:39:18 +0000

The current list of web projects has gone a bit haywire. Here is how they are organized in my head:

Lanna Innovation

http://lannainnovation.com – ล้านนานวัตกรรม is the operating organization for the nexus of Thai language and culture products and services

http://chiangmaibest.com – Local directory of the Best of Chiang Mai
http://ediblethailand.com – Thai cuisine for the Farang traveler in Thailand
http://eslthailand.com – English language learning for the Thai market
http://howtolearnthai.com – Thai language learning for the adult Farang market
http://seochiangmai.com – เอสอีโอ เชียงใหม่ offers SEO/SEM services for local businesses seeking access to the Farang market

SEO Indochina

http://seoindochina.com can be conceived of as an overarching organization which under it the various brands of ESL, SEO, Best, and Edible are arrayed. We have a complete array of Indochina (Myanmar/Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam) offerings in the wings and some brand expansions with the Edible brand.

In addition there is the brand http://calendarasia.com which will act as a clearing-house for calendars, timezone information and planning, especially in Indochina but extensible to the 3.8bn people and places of Asia

Mandalay, Myanmar/Burma

[http://edibleburma.com](Edible Burma – A Burmese cuisine food guide for travelers) | [http://ediblemyanmar.com](Edible Myanmar – A Myanmar cuisine food guide for travelers)
้http://eslburma.com | http://eslmyanmar.com
[http://mandalaybest.com](Mandalay Best – The best of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma))
[http://seomandalay.com](SEO Mandalay – Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, Myanmar (Burma))
[http://seoburma.com](SEO Burma – Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, Myanmar (Burma))
[http://seomyanmar.com](SEO Myanmar – Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, Myanmar (Burma))
[http://seoyangon.com](SEO Yangon – Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, Myanmar (Burma))
[http://seorangoon.com](SEO Rangoon – Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, Myanmar (Burma))

Vientiane, Laos

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Viet Nam

Can Tho

Danang

Hanoi

Hoi An

Hue

Saigon

Nepal

China

Edible SE Asia

Parliament Press

http://parliamentpress.com is the operating organization for English language projects around practical knowledge for professionals

http://brandartifacts.com – Branding design and Marketing strategy artifacts
http://openflight.org – The dream of the flying car crowdsourced and realized
http://rationalresume.com – A rational approach to resume and career management
http://sourcegirl.com – Open source application directory
http://strategywisdom.com – Classic strategy such as Sun Tzu’s Art of War

Jeff McNeill Sites

[http://donnagh.com](Donnagh – Second life, virtual world, and augmented reality)
http://jeffmcneill.com – Personal Site
http://zenchine.com – Haiku and Image Meditations

Personal Branding Exercise – Google Yourself

jeffmcneill — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:00:04 +0000

Googling oneself can be interesting. Of course each search result is a sample and it is important to use a browser that is not logged into Google. Here are the latest results for three permutations of my name:

Jeff McNeill

7 of 10 SERP results – positions 1,2,4,5,8,9,10

jeffmcneill.com
- Online Faxing Options blog post
Massey University – Jeff McNeill (someone else)
Linked In
Flickr photostream
Jeff Mcneill Facebook (someone else)
Jeffrey McNeill publicpolicy.co.nz (someone else)
BlipTV
Identica
MySpace

“Jeff McNeill”

Same results as above (usually this is at least a little different, but not this time)

jeffmcneill

8 of 10 SERP results – positions 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10

jeffmcneill.com
Flickr photostream
- Flickr people (profile)
User:Jeffmcneill – Wikipedia
Twitter
Massey University – Jeff McNeill (someone else)
Linkedin
Myspace
Jeff Mcneill Facebook (someone else)
BlipTV

Takeaways

BlipTV is important (I haven’t posted any videos there in a while but a few are up there), this was a bit of a surprise. Note: Vimeo also came up in the second SERP page.
MySpace is still important
LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr, Identica, and Facebook are important
Having your name as a domain name is important
Universities generally rank highly

Blogging since 1996

jeffmcneill — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:13:37 +0000

According to a soon-to-be-deleted Archive.org cache my jeffmcneill.com site has been around from at least 2001. Blogging somewhat regularly has been going on since 2006. What does that mean? Who knows.

Ok, it is a bit much to say blogging since 1996. After all these pages look more like early Yahoo! than blogger, which I was familiar with back in 2000. Ev gave a talk in my Masters’ program just before the Pyra labs meltdown.

Before that

revolver.com 2000
concept.com 1996

Those domain names would be gold now. Ah, all hypothetical, hypothetical gold. ;P

Just a memory…

Nowadays I am an SEO, Internet Marketing and Ecommerce consultant in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I blog here, there and a few other places. Lots o the Twitter as well.

Why I am not in India or Nepal at the moment

jeffmcneill — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:06:32 +0000

I have had plans to travel through India (briefly) and in Nepal (for about a month). I am postponing these plans. This means it will likely be next year to get to Nepal. Simply, right now is not a good time, but for good reasons.

When I began planning the trip about 10 weeks ago, I was busy but a bit bored. My projects were all long-term and not a lot of visible progress could be seen. I wanted to do something, and have some adventure. So I began the travel planning. Since then actually several things have changed and there has been visible progress in many of my long-term projects.

I have lost 8kg and gotten the body into shape through 5 days/week in the gym
I have new clients as an SEO, Internet Marketing and Ecommerce Consultant
The first publication from a new business partnership is almost ready for the printer, and we have begun several other projects

In sum, now is not a good time to travel as I have responsibilities to myself and especially to other people to continue these projects and move things forward.

I love travelling, but it turns out now is not a good time. Sometime near the end of December or at the latest in February and March will be a much better time. Likely Cambodia will be the destination then.

Designing the Moment – Robert Hoekman, Jr. – Book Review

Three Simple Habits of Effective Teams

jeffmcneill — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:46:56 +0000

3 Simple Habits of a Highly Effective Team

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Facebook and Twitter Status Update Tools

jeffmcneill — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:49:13 +0000

There are many ways of managing social media messaging. A lot of this has to do with work style and personal preference. It is not yet possible to maintain all the conversations in a single place. Therefore we have to make do and find a way that supports the messaging needs of our networks as well as something personally sustainable.

Facebook Twitter Integration

Since the majority of communication is on the Facebook and Twitter platforms (for me, currently), the first question is how to integrate or provide for some kind of dual-management so that messages do not have to be manually repeated or conversations lost track of.

Facebook as primary interface

Link your Facebook Page to Twitter allows for Facebook-to-Twitter message forwarding by type of message (status updates, links, photos, notes, etc.). What is great is that it continues the functionality of pages to act as full profile accounts, just as it is now possible for a page to fan another page.
Twitter – Facebook app is an embedded Twitter client inside of Facebook (apparently for those who can’t bear to have another browser tab open). It also provides and option to allow Twitter to update Facebook, an can be enabled on a given page as well as the logged-in account, for those who want to echo everything from Twitter to Facebook (see Twitter as primary interface, below).

Twitter as primary interface

Selective Twitter – Facebook app echos each Twitter tweet that has ” #fb” in it to facebook. What is nice is it allows for profiles and fan pages and has a nice interface that allows for setting different twitter usernames to different pages. Created by Andy Young.

A third interface option – HelloTxt

HelloTxt is a great option for updating Twitter, Facebook, Identica, MySpace and LinkedIn, as well as many other social sites you care to use. I enabled the Jabber option and just open my chat client and send the message and it reliably updates all my accounts’ status.

Multi-account Twitter interface

I realize there are other offerings out there, but after testing HootSuite and CoTweet, for me the best multi-account tool is the simple, quick and effective TwitIQ.