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Alltop recently added a page for product management, and many (but not all) of the great product management blogs are on it. Tyner Blain made the list too - because of the great fans here. Thank you! As our product management community grows, we’ve added a couple goodies to help it get even better. Including [...]
Alltop recently added a page for product management, and many (but not all) of the great product management blogs are on it. Tyner Blain made the list too - because of the great fans here. Thank you! As our product management community grows, we’ve added a couple goodies to help it get even better. Including a Tyner Blain fan page on facebook.
productmanagement.alltop.comAlltop is a site with vetted, human-managed lists of “all the top blogs.” And they finally created the productmanagement.alltop.com page. A few bloggers tried to get the folks at Alltop to set up this page back in August, but we couldn’t make it happen. April Dunford, author of Rocketwatcher, an up and coming marketing blog with a focus on startups and incubators, finally made it happen a couple weeks ago. Thanks, April!
The cool thing about the Alltop page is that it is a great place to go browse for articles about product management. Whenever you finish reading here for the day, just click on the Alltop logo in the upper right corner, and you’ll go right to the page. The page provides a great way to see the latest articles from any of several top-shelf bloggers who write about product management. The organization of the page makes it easy to browse and discover a new (to you) blog so you can follow it. River of Product Management
The Alltop page, while not yet including all of the great product management bloggers, does add some concreteness to the sense of community that has formed and thrived over the last few years around product management. You can often get a sense of the community when conversations start to span multiple blogs. These conversations often start as product management authors comment on other author’s articles. Then they grow, as multiple authors build on each other’s articles with new articles - extending ideas, critiquing them, and otherwise engaging with each other. Sometimes, it can be hard to keep up. This “river” of product management news can feel like riding the rapids sometimes, but if you miss part of the conversation, you may miss your favorite article.
I’ve added a page to Tyner Blain, the Product Management River - available in the menu bar on top, that makes it easy to ride the river of product management news from the productmanagement.alltop.com bloggers. As new blogs are added to the Alltop page, their articles will show up in the river too.
What makes this page different from the Alltop page is that it pulls from all the listed blogs, like a river pulls from tributaries, to create one river of product management articles. The most recent articles are shown, in order, as each product management author publishes them. To make it cooler, the page automatically updates in real-time, so you don’t have to keep refreshing the page in your browser.
This is a great tool for staying on top of what everyone is saying [note: I created it for myself, because I wanted it - but feedback from other folks has been very positive, so now everyone can use it]. If you want to create something similar on your own site, just embed the product-management room I created on FriendFeed. Or use the product management river page on our site, and avoid recreating the wheel. Tyner Blain Facebook Page
A lot of people are starting to focus on social networks, social marketing, and social media. Social has entered the mainstream. April has a good article about social media and press releases, with real-world examples and advice. I really like it because she provides concrete examples that resonate with me as a product manager. And it makes a nice balance for the buzz-word-heavy, platitude-laden hype-fests that most articles about anything “social” seem to be. It makes me want to be more social. The Cranky Product Manager (CPM) created a fan page on facebook a while ago, and used it to run a survey for her readers. And now she’s got over 300 fans there, who can easily find links to her latest articles. Between the CPM and April and Alltop, I’ve been inspired to create a Tyner Blain fan page on facebook.
There are only 3 fans as of this writing, and I’m one of them. I’m not saying that we should have more fans than the CPM, but 100:1?! That’s just not right. Help a fella out. And if you have a fan-page on facebook for your corner of our product management community, tell everyone about it right on the Tyner Blain fan page. As we continue to come up with good ways to help grow the community through this blog and our facebook fan page, we will. Leave suggestions here or there, I’d love to hear your ideas! One More Thing…See, we’re getting in the spirit of this marketing stuff. There’s one more cool thing. Our product management community is about conversations. When those conversations happen as multiple articles, you can find them in the product management river. Whenever I comment on a blog, as part of these conversations, you can find it on the Tyner Blain fan page.
Those comments get automatically updated, and show up in the mini-feed as well. A great way to stumble upon the ongoing conversations. ConclusionYou can become part of the community without starting a blog or writing 1000 word articles. Just start commenting and asking questions, providing anecdotes, and sharing experiences. Do this on all the great product management blogs, or just your favorites. There’s no pressure to keep contributing, just do it when you can. It makes our corner of the world better for everyone. And become a fan of Tyner Blain on facebook today. 3 fans is just embarrassing.
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