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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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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 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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Monday, January 4th, 2010
This article originally appeared at Media Bullseye. Please click on over to see some even better articles on social media from an assembly of very smart folks.
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I am not one to post predictions or "best of" posts at the end ...
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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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