Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009
A Patent for "Podcasting?"
Podcasters are a pretty strong, tight-knit community. I recall (because I was in the middle of it) when Apple tried to defend trademark applications for "podcast" and related terms by sending cease and desist letters to companies like Podcast Ready (a client at the time), and the ...
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Friday, July 31st, 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.
We have reached my minimum fundraising goal, but we can still use help from more people like these Heroes. ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
An article in Entrepreneur Magazine this week talked about "The Pitch." In essence, the article writes to "shut up" until you have crafted a useful story for your target, rather than just having a "static pitch." (http://bit.ly/359QWd). While the 2-3 weeks recommended to craft such a pitch is often impractically ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 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.
We have reached my minimum fundraising goal, but we can still use help from more people like these Heroes. ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
I have questioned the myth(?) that summer is slower in business, but of one thing I am certain: summer changes your routines.
As father of an 11 year-old, I appreciate day camp, as it gets me and my son up and out on a schedule similar to the school year.
I thought ...
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Monday, July 27th, 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.
We have reached my minimum fundraising goal, but we can still use help from more people like these Heroes. ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 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.
We have reached my minimum fundraising goal, but we can still use help from more people like these Heroes. ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
The Newest Entrant in the Twitter Primer Business is... Twitter
A primary rule in communications is tell your own story. Twitter has been happy to let others do that for now.
What with books about how to use Twitter proliferating (my biased choice: Twitter for Dummies by Laura Fitton, Leslie Poston and ...
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Friday, July 24th, 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.
I have just $150 left to raise as I write this I have reached my minimum fundraising goal (with ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
I was flipping through one of my favorite trade magazines, BtoB, and taking in the latest issue as a whole, thought:
Is social media becoming normalized in corporate marketing?
There are still many "shiny object" articles focusing on tools like Facebook and Twitter, but there is a much stronger undercurrent now ...
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