Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
First off, a piece of personal news: today marks my last day at SHIFT Communications. It has been a great ride and I am leaving some friends, particularly a great team, behind, What's next? It is too early to tell tales, but my next move is sure to include explicit responsibilities ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
I'm not convinced you, as readers, care deeply what my top posts for the past year were-- or what I consider to be the top posts.
However, for reference, I thought I would catalog the top posts by popularity. Caveat: I left some posts out, as I wanted to stick to ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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It is common to talk about problem solving as breaking down the problem into manageable chunks and tackling them one at a time. We apply this or similar methods based on our own experiences and training.
In a recent conversation with Mike Volpe of Hubspot, I realized ...
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
This summary is for the benefit of blog subscribers who might not see some of the gr eat content over at MediaBullseye.com. Please visit there for my full article with details on how and why I made these changes. How has your social media usage? How will it change?
I started using ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Running gloves work w/ keyboard (these are from New Balance). Works pretty well. Posted via email from doughaslam's posterous
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
I frequently tire of the "xxx is dead" statements that are cavalierly thrown about the social Web. Here are a few, real and imagined, that caught my eye lately, and why they may not be true.
RSS is Dead: I understand that Steve Rubel is saying in his post, "As the Decade Closes, ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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Notice I didn't say "death" of privacy. I still dislike it when people say something is "dead" when we know it isn't. However, a number of things have been popping up recently that make me wonder if people are concerned enough about ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
As a follow-up to my previous post on personal branding, I would like to ahare the first bit of the panel I was part of on December 9, at Dan Schwabel's Personal Brand @ Work event.
In this excerpt, I explain my approach to personal brand (or reputation) not only from a PR perspective but from a ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
I was thinking about the concept of "personal branding" quite a bit lately, thus this Social Media Top 5.
I was invited to speak at one of Dan Schawbel's Personal Branding events, therefore I must be (or have) a personal brand: I was actually flattered to be invited to participate in ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Putting together a very difficult jigsaw puzzle (pictured) with my family, I experienced a lot of the feelings, frustrations, despair and elation that I equate with many tasks, including those in my work. Let's have a look at the process:
Blank Slate: Ever have to write a document and start out ...
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