Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
...and look what is #5! Do I Twitter too much? I especially love the Tweet captured in this screenshot. Meta!Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies.
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Microblogging as replacement for blogging? Hogwash!
Those of you who know me, or at least have read this blog a fair bit, know I use Twitter. A lot. Twitter is commonly known as microblogging, which has begged the question often in the past year: will microblogging, specifically Twitter, replace blogging?
The answer, ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
1) Earth hour: Google leads the way in environmental conscientiousness by going to an energy-saving black homepage. I was so impresses I printed out 50 copies for my friends. Make that 36- I ran out of ink
2) The Great Tweeterboard Outage of 2008 leaves dozens of Twitter addicts unsure of ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
I have reached the next big step in training for the Pan Mass Challenge: getting my bike tuned up and repaired. My 17-year-old ride is not yet ready to retire (I hope).
The Pan Mass Challenge is a 2-day, 160-mile ride to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, an organization that ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Those of us in social media, particularly the marketing and communications practitioners, have long been aware of The Age of Conversation, a collaborative book in which 100 marketing authors bring one page of their ideas on the topic of "conversation." the book is a remarkable exercise in mobilizing a passionate ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Time for another Social Media top 5, after another long week of being immersed in the biz:
1) Marketing guru Seth Godin says you don't need to bother having a resume. Instead, just write a string of best-selling books.
Actually-- a great idea-- the resume needs an update, but people ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Somehow I found this distrubing- yes, there's a Hilary card too...Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies.
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
A quick thought on all the social media networks, messaging tools, feeds and virtual worlds out there.
Dave Huston asked on Twitter: "Staring in awe at the front page of friendfeed.com ... where does it end???"
Of all the thousadns of messages out there, this one caught my eye.
Why? Random timing ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Time for the weekly Social Media Top 5, a collection of japes, jeers, jerks, and general thoughts about social media, real and imagined.
1) First up, the big buzz at SXSW Interactive this past week was the keynote, in which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy. Much ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I guess I can say I have officially started training for the Pan Mass Challenge (http://www.pmc.org/) in August. The 160-mile bicycle ride across Massachusetts benefits the Jimmy Fund, helping research treatments and cures for cancer in children.
For now I am biking indoors at the YMCA to keep in shape. It's ...
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