Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159.
Mark Story is one of the great group of ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Five Reasons Why your Business Conference Sucks: When I finally met Mack Collier at the recent MarketingProfs B2B Forum Tweetup, I joked that now that we had met in person I no longer need to link to is blog.
I lied.
Mack actually used the conference as a positive example in a ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159.
Best known as one-half of the Dean Martin and ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Acronyms for social media proliferate, and tortured acronyms to describe social media practices have become commonplace.
That tears it. I need to do one. Here's mine:
J- Jump in, the blogging's fine
U- Understand your message, in case noone else does
S- Swearing in text isn't as fun as in person
T- Trashing ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Together, we are doing a small but significant part to find a cure for cancer. Please consider sponsoring me- at any amount- in the 30th annual Pan-Mass Challenge, an incredible 2-day journey through the Bay state the first weekend in August. You may donate at http://pmc.org/DH0159.
Well, here we are in ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159.
Though I have been using social media to raise money ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I think every day about some aspect of my "new" media consumption habits, but I rarely put them together. Here's a bunch:
- TV is all time-shifted. This started in the VHS age. I watch a bit less, too, as Web time creeps up
- News consumption is completely fragmented. No daily ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live:
For one thing, it changes the way we read TIME Magazine, I guess. Actually, for an ultra-mainstream publication, TIME delves deeply but still in plain English about such things as Hashtags and live-Tweeting of events. This is a much better article than I ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159.
There are some people in the "strictly social media" whom ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
One of my reasons for blogging is to experiment. What drives traffic and conversation? Which communication platforms are more effective?
One of my "experiments" is seeing what happens when my friend and very popular social media guy Chris Brogan (www.chrisbrogan.com) links to me. In January, he liked one of my ...
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