One of my favorite blogs recently has been The Art of Manliness. It’s not a boneheaded celebration of dumb machismo, rather a thoughtful exploration of what being a man canand should mean in a post-feminist world. With values anchored in equality, the writers explore everything from employment and relationships to parenting, grooming and etiquette.
Last month, in response to the deepening recession, one contributor wrote “How To Network Like A Man.” It’s a great essay on networking, oriented around the story of a man losing his job and immediately putting to work his network of professional relationships to find new work. The advice in the essay isn’t gender-specific, and applies pretty broadly to almost anyone in a professional context — for web workers, good networking skills are even more valuable than understanding CSS or Photoshop inside out.
I’ve been at SXSW attending sessions, seeing product demos and interviewing tech company founders. I’ve also been asking anyone who identifies themselves as a web worker about their favorite web app and how it helps them with their work.
Here is the first of a series of short interviews with a variety of web working types, starting with venture capitalist and co-founder of Alltop, Guy Kawasaki, who reveals his favorite web app: the “ultimate marketing tool for Twitter.”
Since I started writing for Web Worker Daily last month, I’ve been trying to remember a web app I’d seen a year ago that make it possible to catch up on a lot of breaking online news in just a few minutes. That app was popurls – but now there’s something much, much better: Alltop.
Alltop’s the unannounced creation of Guy Kawasaki and his two partners at Nononina. (Yes – that Guy Kawasaki). The beauty of Alltop is by providing the latest of the best on say politics (or 20 other topics presently), you can get a sense of what’s really happening in that world, quick. Alltop refreshes every 10 minutes or so, so are really seeing what’s happening now.
Web Work 101: How To Escape The Cubicle
