Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Apple's iPad
It's probably all been said about Apple's iPad launch this past week, but I was particularly interested in the viewpoints of a few of my friends:
Steve Garfield concentrates on the limitations imposed on the device. He comes from the standpoint of a heavy video consumer who would like flash, ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Today, I am very happy to announce that I have joined Voce Communications- specifically, I am with the Voce Connect business group, working on social media programs for a number of their big-ticket clients.
Friends who have followed my job search know that I was looking for something that more explicitly ...
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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Yet again, Dunbar's Number is popping up. Professor Robin Dunbar first stated in the 90s that the maximum number of relationships our tiny human brains can handle is 150.
A Sunday article in the Times of London has brought this up anew, thanks ...
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
B.L. Ochman on Big Companies and Creativity
B.L. Ochman creates some of the most useful lists in the social media space. Her latest concentrates on the problems of big companies and why they don't swiftly embrace creative endeavors like social media. To oversimplify things: bigger entities move more slowly. If you ...
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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I read this short piece, "The Great Journalism Exodus," by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic. In it, he discusses the fact that many journalists are switching over to public relations jobs. That's nothing new, but we're definitely seeing more of it in ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
I have blogged already of the importance of having a network in place even when you are not actively seeking work. Another thought that has crossed my mind frequently is the actual makeup of a network. Every person has his or her role, no matter how many people make up ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
LaunchCamp in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 4 I'm proud to take part in the first LaunchCamp at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge (near MIT) on Feb. 4. There will be lots of resources and discussion on what entrepreneurs need to get their company off the ground, provided by a ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
This year, for the third year in a row, I'm riding the Pan-Mass Challenge. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, the PMC is a 2-day ride across Massachusetts that is the largest single fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston (if you would like to sponsor my ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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Inbound marketing? What the heck does that have to do with the job market?
Well, first a quick definition of inbound marketing from the Hubspot blog, in a post by Rick Burnes:
Inbound Marketers flip outbound marketing on its head.
Instead of interrupting people with television ...
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Seesmic Buys Ping.fm
I prefer Seesmic Desktop to Tweetdeck as a PC Twitter client, just because I like it. One feature I love is the ability to choose to direct a post to Twitter or Facebook, or both, or even to multiple accounts. It's also something I like about Posterous, which ...
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