Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Podcamp Boston 4 is Coming, August 8-9: I'm a little disappointed that I have a partial conflict on the 8th (it's family, so I'm not exactly sad about it), but I plan to be around as much as possible outside of that. I have had some involvement in PodCamp Boston ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
The other day I received a FedEx from "Grasshopper." It turned out to be a bag of chocolate covered grasshoppers- real bugs, a treat from Thailand. Attached was a tag saying I was one of only 5,000 "influentials" to receive this package. What about this campaign?
-In the spirit of Groucho ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
In my Great Personal Social Media Experiment, one of my lessons is learning how the tools I use affect the people with whom I communicate.
Onbe of my methods is running my Twitter messages through my Facebook status. The risk? Sometimes heavy Twitter use (during webinars and Boston playoff games) floods ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
For the last year or two, I have been writing periodic articles for Media Bullseye, an online (and print) magazine run by my friends at Custom Scoop. Lately, I have been writing a monthly column called "New Tools, Old Rules," loosely based on the idea that while social ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Time flies-- too much to gather material for my weekly roundup and commentary, but I did want to get this in after my trip to Austin, Texas last week:
I have often said, as have many others, that as great as online social networking is, meeting people in person. Most recently ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
UPDATE: New link for sponsor page: http://bit.ly/pmcdh
It has been a while since I have posted an update on my preparations for the Pan-Mass Challenge, a two-day ride across Massachusetts. I am riding for the second year, raising money to help fight cancer. A few notes:
I have been overwhelmed by the ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I thought I could approach reading two social media-related books in the same way. I couldn't.
Don Tapscott's "Grown Up Digital" is aimed at someone like me, gen-X and older folks who may need to underdstand the Milennials' mindset. The author, like me, is looking at this from the outside ...
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Nielsen says "Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth": It's troubling that one of my favorite social networking (and marketing) tools is suffering from a lot of abandoned accounts: over 60%, really? Is this due to the recent celebrity presence spawning more curious signups who then walk away?
I ...
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