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You’re Doing It Wrong! Wrong, I Tell You! WRONG!

September 24, 2009

I am often struck, in the online space, by how quick people are to judge others. By how people rush to point out how someone else is doing it wrong. Oh, yes. Taking cheap shots, ridiculing others, or otherwise belittling people seems to be a favorite pastime ’round The Interwebs. “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!” While [...]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

September 15, 2009

I don’t understand all of this … sniping. When it comes to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed … whatever … each of us has a favorite. But what’s with all of the vitriol? Grown people, professional people are practically foaming at the mouth over things as small as Facebook adding @ tagging as a feature. It’s the [...]

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Are You A Responder?

September 10, 2009

Responsiveness. How are you with that? If someone sends you an email, leaves you a voice mail message, text, or attempts to connect with you in some way, how and when do you respond? Do you respond at all? What’s your order of importance? Clients? Friends? Sure, those are a given. But riddle me this: [...]

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Where Do College Students Stand On Tech?

August 22, 2009

I happened on a copy of an alumni magazine published by Loyola College in Maryland. In this issue (Fall 2009), the college polled 123 students about their personal technology use. The results are pretty interesting! And there’s one student who still has a record player (does anyone, other than me, miss the snap, crackle and [...]

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Your Affect is Chafing My Effect. Now, Lay Off & Lie Down.

August 19, 2009

I can’t take it, I tell you. I just can’t take it anymore. I need to know why it is that grown people — educated people, no less — can’t seem to grasp basic and, yes, I’ll say it, simple rules of grammar. Why is it so hard to understand the differences between “your” and [...]

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You Can’t Stop Me, You Can Only Hope To Contain Me

August 18, 2009

Can you think of an industry that has to deal with a more constant barrage of PR-related idiocy than sports? OK, maybe politics, but that’s not so much an industry as a giant trainwreck, constantly in progress. But I digress. Sports. An industry that is in as dire need of some good PR and social [...]

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Is Facebook Really Twitter’s Bastard Stepchild?

August 5, 2009

What is it that people have against Facebook? Why is it seen as a lesser medium than Twitter? I’m fascinated. As I flew across the country last night, I decided to catch up with some friends on Facebook, and by chance, got involved in a conversation about how people use the site, and more interestingly, [...]

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Don’t Be That Guy

July 22, 2009

Ahhhh, the Social Web. Does anything else hold such promise these days? Does anything else have such potential? Anything have more people using it … and doing so in a totally ineffective way? What got me thinking about these questions was this: I’ve recently seen a massive influx of people from my past business life, [...]

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Trying Twitter On For Size? 10 Tips For Newbies

July 7, 2009

Of late, the Interwebs have been all a-twitter about, well, how to effectively use Twitter. We’ve seen posts by Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan) about how to become a re-tweet magnet and Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) and how he tweets; Mashable (@mashable) has list upon list of best practices & tips for use of the micro-blogging site. What’s [...]

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It’s Actually Work? My Inner 5th Grader Says, “DUH!”

June 10, 2009

Social Media is all the rage. Twitter this, Facebook that. Be part of “The Conversation”. Indeed, this is the business of my business: counseling smaller businesses and startup companies on how to integrate the power of the Social Web into their marketing scheme. But more and more, I see articles and news tidbits whose general [...]

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