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Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter
Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
Over at Harvard Business Review, Tammy Erickson observes most tweets are not very interesting: Frankly, most people’s tweets are neither interesting nor fun to read — certainly not on a daily or hourly basis. Many, not at all. I say this with no condemnation, since I admit mine are pretty...
Since my blog has been broken a lot recently I missed this excellent overview of Five User Experience trends by Gene Smith. I can’t help but agree with all of them: Services as Software – Gene is one of the first people in the UX industry to admit that good...
Google: Forms & Landing Pages are Key
A fascinating post by Googler Gavin Doolan: If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign. (This graph) shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of various parts of your website. I love that: “theoretical overview”. In other...
I recently posted this quote on the 52weeksofUX site, but I like it so much I’m going to post it here as well: “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day...
As I sit looking at Tweetdeck this morning, scanning over 40 avatars of people I know and don't know, I wonder how much of my interaction is influenced by what a particular avatar looks like. Am I more willing to converse with someone who has a realistic avatar? A smiling...
The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing
If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it....
Reality Overlaps
Internet connectivity is essential. It’s as simple as that. You need to find Internet periodically, just like you need to eat and use the toilet periodically. You might be able to go without it for a day or two, but basically, let’s face it, Internet access has become a fundamental...
Outside Victoria Station in London, I met my friend AJ Pape. It was exciting, because this is the first time I've met someone from p5y.org face to face, though I've been volunteering for almost a year now. I am in communication with several people from the organization per week,...
It's our fourth night staying at Susie's home in London.As we were on the bus coming here for the first time, my son asks "How far is it to your friend's house?""I don't know, I've never been there," I answer, suddenly thinking about the choice of words. I don't actually...
It was going to happen sooner or later. My personal e-mail address has gotten to the point where there is practically no truly personal mail in my inbox. We haven't migrated from dead-tree and ink letter-writing to electronic letter-writing. We have migrated to no letter-writing.Why would you bother anyway? If...
Facebook and twitter are constant reminders of what a loser I am. I know in real-time exactly what parties I'm missing, what fancy restaurants I'm not eating in, where I'm not vacationing, and the beautiful weather I'm missing by being inside.At first, I felt pretty good about all the parties...
In-Office Out-of-Office Replies
Have you been getting a lot of e-mail lately, responding to your e-mail, telling you how often the recipient answers their e-mail?You know, the mails that say: Dear Colleague, [polite explanation] I am checking and responding to my mail twice daily. [more polite explanation]. If you need urgent assistance [contact...
Social Media Explorer
Collaborate With Me On Collaboration
Collaboration, though vague in definition, seems to be one of the more powerful end results of successful social media efforts. Whether it’s collaborating internally to improve business processes and efficiencies or gang-tackling a product improvement with your own customers, social media tools seem to tear down silos and connect people...
Conference Productivity Tips For SXSW
South by Southwest Interactive begins in ernest tomorrow as geeks from everywhere descend upon Austin, Texas. If you’ve heard of “South by,” you’ve probably been told it’s an amazing experience that is largely defined by parties and networking. Conference productivity is often tossed by the wayside at these things, but...
Sysomos Offers Location Based Monitoring Service
Social media monitoring firm Sysomos is launching a free location-based monitoring service today it’s calling FourWhere. The tool mines publicly available Foursquare data (tips) and mashes them up with a Google map of the location you’ve entered. There’s no sign-up or account required. It’s just clever link-bait and enthusiasm-building from...
Get Ready For Firefly Funnel Cake Fandango!
Some of you know my dad, Chillie Falls, owns a funnel cake trailer. He even blogs about his adventures selling cakes all over Virginia and elsewhere. You also probably know that I’ve been known to put on a party or two in my time. And yeah, sometimes they sound like...
An Example Of What Is Killing Newspapers
Sunday’s Courier-Journal, Louisville’s daily newspaper, is one of the few tactile media publications I still read. I get the paper every day delivered in my RSS feeds, but Sunday mornings with local newspapers are still useful, if for the experience alone. My wife enjoys perusing the coupons. I like reading...
Is Your Blog Your Social Media Hub?
Corporate blog expert Debbie Weil has asked the question, “Should blogging be the hub of your social media efforts?” Tomorrow afternoon, Jay Baer and Chris Baggott will take a stab at answering that in a Compendium Blogware webinar of the same name. Sign up now. Seats are limited. While Debbie has...
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I met Juliette Powell at the We Media event last week in Miami, and was impressed by her views on web culture. Here's an interview with her, when she satarts by talking about... me? Well, the idea of publicy. We Media Interview Juliette Powell from KnightCenter on Vimeo. The notion that you...
Robin Chase on Why Car Data Wants To Be Free
Robin Chase is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, thinks that the strnaglehold that car manufacturers have on car data makes no sense: Driving By the Numbers Current federal law requires annual emissions and safety inspections for all cars. A mechanic plugs an electronic reader into what’s known as the onboard...
Social Business Summit: London and Austin
Thursday this week I will be participating in the Dachis Group's Social Business Summit, speaking on Publicy and The Erosion Of Privacy (incidentally, I am speaking on the same topic tomorrow, at the We Media conference in Miami). Dachis Group is also partnering with Somesso to hold a Social Business Summit...
William James once wrote, "You can judge a man's intelligence by how well he agrees with you." In that regard, David Gelernter is my main man. In a recent but oddly titled piece at Edge.org (what a nice name!), Gelernter could have been reading one of my recent slide shows: -...
Watching Socialtext's announcement this week about the newest major release of their flagship technology, I knew that had done some great work. I got the demo today, and it looks really great. Socialtext has extended way past the baseline functionality that made them a pioneer in social technology for business. They...
Digital Billboards: Very Shiny
Since I don't drive much, I often miss trends like digital billboards: - Matt Richtel, Electronic Billboards Called Another Driving Distraction The billboard industry argues that the new signs are part of a larger technological and economic shift to a paperless society (no more crews hoisting and removing ads from billboards)...
Logic+Emotion
A Conversation Worth Sponsoring (Thank You To The Art of Shaving)
When Aaron Strout approached me about participating in Movember (through the Movember foundation which facilitates donations for Mens health issues such as testicular cancer), I was a bit apprehensive. I mean, I do a lot of talks/work with clients and......
How To Create Advocates For Your Business
So what is customer advocacy anyway? Well for starters, they don't have to be your customers—they can be any part of your entire constituency. Employees, business partners, friends—you name it. But here's the point. You need them more than ever.......
Six Social Media Trends For 2010
Originally posted on The Harvard Business Review blog In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielson Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in......
After recently updating some visuals to my Flickr collection, it occurred to me how much of my precious time has gone into producing these artifacts only to "give" them away (specifically for use of blogging and presentations—I ask for attribution,......
Nussbaum on Design, Disruption and Innovation
Originally posted on the Dachis Group Collaboratory Sharing ideas and insights with Bruce Nussbaum, contributing editor at BusinessWeek, is always a pleasure, so it's fitting that he's one of my first round table interviews. Previously assistant managing editor in charge......
Metz, The Social Concept
Sales 2.0 Chat: Miller Heiman's Richard Blakeman on Strategic Selling & The Social Customer
“The behavior that [a consumer brand like] Abercrombie wants is ‘who’s gonna want it where, by when’ If [they] don’t have that framework, then all of the social data is noise.” – Rich Blakeman, Miller Heiman About a year ago, I lost a consulting bid proposal that I made to a...
Sales 2.0 Chat: Salesforce's Brett Queener On How SMEs Might Have To Embrace Social Cust Mgmt
“If you have a screwed-up customer process and you deploy Salesforce, all you do is screw your customers faster,” he said. Brett Queener is, admittedly, not the “guru” of social customer relationship management at Salesforce. He bestows that title on SVP Product Marketing Kraig Swensrud and Chuck Ganapathi , SVP of...
Sales 2.0 Day Two: The Notion Of Social Enablement
“Sales 2.0 is still reactive – we need to go into a proactive mode.” – Gerhard Gschwandtner, Selling Power. The Sales 2.0 Conference kicked off its second and final day at the Four Seasons San Francisco today, with a rock-solid keynote by OracleCRM’s Mark Woollen . I’ve packed my Sales 2.0...
What To Read Before You Hit The (Sold Out!) Sales 2.0 Conference Tomorrow
I’m about to head to Chinatown for an afternoon of chilling and reading, but before I take off, I wanted to share a quick reading list for what you’ll want to digest before heading over to the Sales 2.0 conference. If you can’t print out and read these bad boys...
Why The Social CRM Strategies For Business Seminar Is A Lot Like The Velvet Underground's Albums
Brian Eno once said that even though hardly anyone bought the Velvet Underground’s albums at the time they first appeared, almost everyone who did formed their own band. The sCRM Summit in Washington DC had a similar vibe. The small conference took place at a snowed-in Westin, a few blocks from...
To My Client Dal Jones (1971-2010)
Dal, I know it’s probably kind of weird to think that I’m writing you a letter. I’ve even got an unanswered email from you from the other day in my inbox. I’m still kind of in shock, buddy. I’ve never lost a client before. This is strange, and very sad....
Altimeter Group
Altimeter Report: The 18 Use Cases of Social CRM, The New Rules of Relationship Management
18 Use Cases That Show Business How To Finally Put Customers First Social and CRM: How Companies Will Manage Their Social Relationships Over the last six months, I’ve been working closely with Ray Wang who is well known in the…...
Social Strategy Webinar Slides Now Available
Jeremiah Owyang and I held a webinar entitled “Developing A Social Strategy” that had over 495 participants asking very insightful questions — we had a great time sharing the information and got new ideas on how to develop our thinking…...
Welcome Michael Gartenberg, New Altimeter Partner!
by Charlene Li A hearty welcome to Michael Gartenberg, the newest partner to join Altimeter. With the addition of Michael, we now have seven partners along with a staff of five other people. We also recently moved offices in San…...
Google Buzz and Kids – Parental Control Nightmare
by Charlene Li Like many parents, I try to take steps to keep my kids safe online, making sure that they understand not to share personal information online, or even to use their real names. They know how to write…...
Welcome to new Altimeter Group partners: Alan Webber and Lora Cecere
I’m pleased to announce that Altimeter Group has brought on two additional partners to meet the growing demand of our clients, which now number over 40 retained clients. Alan Webber and Lora Cecere each bring with them unique areas of…...
“Socialgraphics” webinar slides and recording now available
Thanks to everyone who attended the webinar we held today on “Understanding Your Customers’ Social Behaviors“. Many people wanted to attend the webinar but weren’t able to because of schedule conflicts. So we’re making the slides and a video recording…...
Jon Burg's Future Visions
I love being a Dad. I love my son expecting me to get him out of bed in the morning and then plop him down on top of my still sleeping wife. I love my son running to me when......
Guy drives up to a McDonalds drive-through and says, "I'll take one." Then he pulls around to the other side, and is handed a coffee. This happens night after night. Eventually he decides that this is his last time going......
you might be a social extortionist if
Yesterday I wrote a post on extortionist social influencers. Some of the commenters (including my wife) asked where I draw the line. Because to be honest, I have pulled rank and mentioned this blog in dealing with poor customer service......
when influencers become extortionists
Note: All of the actions below have occurred in real life. I have read the complete transcripts and email records. Dear Social Extortionists, By now, many smart brands are familiar with the game you play. You call and you threaten.......
wishes and dreams : google's big social play beyond Buzz
Buzz isn't the be all and end all. It's a product, a tool in Google's growing tool belt. At some point these tools are going to come together to create something fantastic. Below are three utilities that will bring Google's......
how not to get ignored in social
Social is a value exchange. Plain and simple. The more value I create for you, the more valuable I will be to you. A relationship is only as strong as the least interested party. The more I ask of you,......
ReadWriteWeb
Universal Check-in App Confirmed: Brightkite's Stealth Service
We write this for you, the tired, the weak and the weary, the dogged attendees of the South By South West festival in Austin this weekend. We know that you're exhausted, but it's not from the booze, the parties or the product pitches - it's the endless location based check-ins....
Google Takes Small Steps for Buzz, Points to Big Solutions for Social Networking
Buzz, Google's controversial attempt to unseat Facebook as the most mainstream of social activity stream readers, just made some much-needed changes that Facebook could learn from as well. Buzz users now have more granular control over what social interactions with content trigger an email sent to their email inboxes and explicit...
Small Business Web Directory Launches at SXSW
Upon first glance we were skeptical. Generally when someone says they're launching a business directory it's an SEO play with little value to users. Nevertheless, the small business web directory is a pleasant surprise. The group is providing a variety of useful resources to help startups integrate services and scale...
Privacy Is Not Dead: Danah Boyd Talks About Privacy at SXSW
During today's SXSW keynote, social media research Danah Boyd, who works for Microsoft Research New England and is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talked about online privacy. Specifically, she focused on how users can navigate issues around online privacy and how developers can help...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating ...
Weekly Wrapup: Bike Trails, Location Madness, SXSW, And More...
Our top stories this week were about cutting the strings that tie us to our desks. And also about stalking celebrities at SXSW. Read on for our coverage and analysis. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including Real-Time Web, Mobile Web and Internet of...
Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet Marketing Snake Oil)
I met her during my freshman year of college, though she was two years my senior. We’d exchange greetings when we passed in the dormitory hallways. Nine years later, we met again when we were assigned to the same tables at a local luncheon. She told me she worked in...
How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media
Did you know that New York City offers more opportunities than the standard tourist attractions? Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? I know when my parents come to NYC,...
11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s
A few weeks ago, I posted about the seven characteristics of highly effective online video. Taking this theme a little further, I decided to branch out into the blogosphere, but using the number seven this time around was a tad too limiting. There are at least ten characteristics...
Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account
As we know, Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform and enables businesses and individuals to build strong relationships with customers and peers. I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I consider my...
Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging Manners Would Do
As a blogger, I’m sure you receive a fair number of emails pitching you with products. As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. We both have difficult jobs. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and...
5 Things True Social Media Experts Do Online
This is a guest post by Glen Allsopp, a 20-year-old genius who has been in this industry for as long as I remember — and you can tell he’s got a knack for brilliance. Follow him on Twitter. There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding...
HireEzy - Hire and Rental Software
lastest statistics on the internet growth, including internet usage and social media. Put this research in to an amazing presentation...
Rental or Hire Equipment Safety Instructions
Hire and Rental companies regularly provide a range of equipment that requires some form of safety instruction. There are a number of issues that hire and rental companies need to consider in their approach to OHS, not only to their customers but also their off site staff....
American Event and Event Rental Industry Fights Back!
In a recent post , we discussed how the downturn in the American economy was leading to a substantive downturn in the $175 Billion corporate meetings market. Now a coalition of event and meet industry- including event rental and event hire companies, as well as planners and organizers are fighting...
Resources for Hire and Rental Entrepreneurs
To support rental and hire industry growth we have started this list of tools and sites that entreprenuers can use....
Series One SEO for Rental Hire Companies
This is the first in a series of articles designed to help your hire company or rental company improve your website rankings....
Hire Software & Rental Software for Mac and Windows
HireEzy is a full business management hire software and rental software for Mac and Windows operating systems....
MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog
How I Was Wrong About LinkedIn (with 2 Mini Case Studies)
I’ve always considered LinkedIn more of a place to prospect for a job than anything else. And since I haven’t been in the market for one in a while, I’ve paid it little mind. Plus, if I’m being honest: I’ve always thought LinkedIn was kind of … well, boring. If Facebook...
Considering a Social Media Monitoring Investment? Ask Questions First.
Social media monitoring is all the rage. You’d think that it’s a just cool, trendy thing to have as a marketer, right? Wrong. Social media monitoring (SMM) is a serious tool that shouldn’t be taken lightly, alas it might just become shelfware (you know, the stuff that sits on a...
MarketingProfs B2B Ramp Up: Making Your Website Sticky For The Future
According to Bob Knorpp, president, Cool Beans Group, “the essential rule about writing a company’s website content is this: It’s not about the past, it’s about the future.” Have you thought about your website from that perspective? We recently had a discussion with Bob to ask him a few questions about...
Reusable Bags: Fashion Statement?
Many grocery stores offer consumers reusable shopping bags these days at .99 a pop, on average, and some retailers have even given them away to do their part to cut down on plastic bag waste. Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, estimates using just one reusable...
Interview With Seth Godin: Linchpin
In this Marketing Over Coffee brought to you by MarketingProfs: We talk with Seth Godin about his new book: Linchpin Marketing Over Coffee with Seth Godin Direct Link to File Show length 23:30 00:52 What’s Linchpin about? 02:30 How do entrepreneurial linchpins fit in to large organizations? 05:40 Who are the artists? 06:55 Can you get beyond...
How To Build a Brand Internationally
Congratulations! Your company is successful locally, and now you want to share what you do with the world. In many ways, the process will be like re-starting your business. Many of the activities you performed to launch your initial business are the same you will employ in each of your...
louisgray.com
GMail's Invite Marketing Coup Was a Myth
For the last six years, marketing teams and Web services have pointed to GMail's invite-only approach as on of the most successful examples of driving user demand in a time of scarcity. At one point, GMail invites were so sought after that account-holders were selling off their spare invites on...
Gmail Failures, Crazy Ideas and Wave's Leapfrog
On the Web, there is a lot of confusion over where Google Wave fits alongside the recently-introduced Google Buzz, or even if Wave is supposed to be a companion or competitor to Gmail - which could potentially cannibalize the company's extremely visible (and profitable) e-mail business. Today at the SXSW...
On Monday, the Users Will Strike Back Against Products
Although I covered a pair of panels from the South by Southwest conference in Austin yesterday, I didn't go deep and explain why I chose to return to the event, which I first participated in and attended last year. Thanks to work at home and with Paladin, I almost opted...
Users vs. Companies: Conflicts over the Real-Time Web?
If 2009 was the year of real-time Web, with practically every major service finding ways to bring content to its users instantly, 2010 is about optimizing the new real-time world, expanding interoperability between sites, finding more ways for users' content to be discovered, and taking the potential of real-time out...
Activity Streams Aim to Be DNA of the Future Web
When the well-respected open source advocate Chris Messina announced he was joining Google in January, many folks were concerned that his being absorbed in to the big company Borg would mean a cessation or redirection of some of his projects targeting the next generation Web, possibly in exchange of proprietary...
Cadmus Adds Twitter Lists Support, Including Trends
Cadmus, the Twitter filter and conversation collector we have covered a few times on the site, has just introduced support for Twitter lists, providing personalized trending topics by list and conversations from that list, giving you an instant update as to what your friends or a specific group of friends...
Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook
I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chronicles the best moments from my Twitter 20 series of live interviews on Twitter. You can download it free below. AND, you can win a hard copy (only 50 exist) FedExed to you. Just Retweet this post, and 5 retweeters will...
Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?
Are you treating social media like a checklist? A recent study by Econsultancy called “The Value of Social Media” shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. And while I don’t have any issues with those sites (in fact I...
How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy
If you’re blogging for business, rather than blogging about your cat, baby, fashion addiction, or crush on Taylor Swift, you need to set some success metrics. Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Is anyone...
6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in Social Media
Is there a future for agencies in a social media world? Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside, a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics.An Enormous Opportunity The...
4 Reasons the Social Business Evolution Starts Now
Is today the day we start thinking about social media as part of an integrated program? My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet, the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other...
Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?
Guest post from Susan Baier, a 20-year marketing strategy veteran with an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Her company Audience Audit provides strategic marketing support and audience segmentation research that helps organizations understand their customers better. Being relevant to customers isn’t about just using their first name in an email. True relevance...
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Nothing Could Be Finer Than Being in Your Diner
Two diner junkies document their real experiences with real food in diners, road-side restaurants and authentic eateries....
Baker Street Irregulars Weekend
The Annual Gathering of the oldest Literary Society dedicated to Sherlock Holmes...
The podcast for those interested in the life and times of Mr. Sherlock Holmes - where it is always 1895...
Socialmedia.biz
Embarrassing childhood stories from Diggnation host, Alex Albrecht, and his mom
Set fire to a house and you too could grow up to be a top podcast host After a rocking performance at the live Diggnation show at SXSW, I asked Alex Albrecht’s mom, Cathy Albrecht, if you could dish up any good embarrassing stories about her son. She tells a story...
Making sense of conversations on Twitter
Launching today, Tweetshare lets you have Twitter conversations around any piece of content The annoying aspect of Twitter is that it’s really difficult to follow conversations. There’s nothing inherent to Twitter that makes it easy for you to backtrack a conversation. What many people use for conversation tracking is hashtags, and...
End of the resume, rise of the super user
View more presentations from David Spark. Or see presentation on SlideShare. Whether you’re looking to get hired, or you’re looking for A+ talent, you want to be seen as or want to be looking for super users. This 14-minute live presentation was given at the Dice event at The Computer History Museum...
RSA 2010: What responsibility do security bloggers have to the industry?
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, I interviewed Andrew Hay (@andrewsmhay), a security blogger and Information Security Analyst at the University Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Hay had keynoted the hipper side security conference known as Security B-Sides earlier this week. One of the issues Hay talked about at B-Sides was that...
RSA 2010: How to protect yourself from social networking malware
I’m at the 2010 RSA Conference here in San Francisco this week reporting for Tripwire. Before the expo floor opened, I sneaked in (yes, seriously, at the security conference), and got a preview of Sophos’ presentation on protecting yourself from social networking malware. After his preparatory run through, I asked “media...
Social media, tech, marketing events: March
Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of March. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. Note that we’ve published a calendar of 2010 social change conferences on our sister site, Socialbrite. We’ll publish a list...
Rajesh @ Blogworks: social media India, social media and social media strategy; branding; conversational marketing; public relations; PR blog India, India
Blogworks.in revamp - call for proposals
Given that our business and offerings have evolved, we are looking at an immediate revamp for both http://blogworks.in and http://blogworks.in/blog. The task, other than enhancing technology, tools and aesthetics, also involves moving the site/s from Movable Type to Wordpress, while......
We've always used "Informal, not casual" to describe the personality of our little organisation, in essence saying that we may not wear a tie to meetings or may sit atop a table to work, or work from Lodhi Garden, but......
If I were Cafe Coffee Day today; Follow through on #ccdsucks episode on Twitter
I spent the afternoon yesterday working out of the Cafe Coffee Day, Adchini next to our office even as the #ccdsucks thread unfolded on Twitter, after a shop manager at a Chennai outlet, allegedly, asked for a cover charge from......
"हम एक character बनायेंगे; सब जगह पर अकाउंट बना दो - twitter, facebook; एक ब्लॉग होगा...फिर advertising करेंगे टीवी पर, सब जगह!" "ओये कितने फेन हो गए अब? अरे इतने से क्या होगा! ये तो बहुत कम हैं! अच्छा ब्लोग्गेर्स......
IndiaSocial™Case Challenge is now live - time to see the depth of social media work in India.
It's amazing how much time working out details of 'seemingly' easy things can take. Finally, after a couple of weeks of 'in-the-making' the IndiaSocial™Case Challenge that we've been busy coordinating is now 'live'. My sincere thanks to exchange4media and......
10 Commandments for being a Facebook celebrity
I have been intently listening to many of the offline conversations around me, and have been quite fascinated how the pressure of putting our 'best face forward' on Facebook is playing up in our lives. It's a space which......
Buzz Marketing | Personal Branding | Personality Marketing
How-to Leverage & Opportunity Filter
I just got back from a two week trip to Sydney, Australia. I have many embarrassing stories (and photos) for you, but today, I wanted first to share with you the two biggest “ah-ha” moments from my trip, so that they can benefit you and your business. Ah-ha Number One:...
The Internet Marketing Threesome
Dean Hunt, James Schramko, Peter Parks What happens if you take three top Internet Marketers and put them in the same room? SuperFastBuzzPunisher is what happens. James Schramko and his “Super Fast” brand… Dean Hunt the “Buzz” marketer, and Peter Parks, the affiliate “punisher”. Download the MP3 or the PDF of this Internet Marketing...
It seems like everyone is copying “gurus” these days, but what they don’t realise is that the way to be truly unique is to be yourself. Ok, sounds a little cheesy I admit, but think about it, in the entire history of the universe, there has never, and will never be...
How to NEVER Get Anything Done
Total reading time: 8 – 10 minutes (1,449 words) Do you find that there are too many distractions online? Perhaps you start projects and never finish them, or feel overwhelmed? In this article I am going to share with you a secret that I recently implemented that has helped move me away...
Market Me Tweet has arrived, and it has some very interesting features. This video below is a great introduction to Market Me Tweet and what this Twitter tool has to offer. Go see for yourselves via this link: Market Me Tweet Twitter Tool Enjoy. Dean...
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Sean Greene speaks at SBA to the Startup Visa group
Sean Greene speaks at SBA to the Startup Visa group ...
At SBA @DaveMcClure explains the Act
At SBA @DaveMcClure explains the Act ...
Meeting with the SBA about the Act.
Meeting with the SBA about the Act. ...
NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon's North Pole; Additional Evidence of Water Activity on Moon
NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon's North Pole; Additional Evidence of Water Activity on Moon ...
Digital Capital Week: It’s Coming to DC in June
Digital Capital Week: It’s Coming to DC in June: I am pleased to announce the creation of Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK), a 10 day festival in Washington D.C. focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation’s capital. It's been something that has been on my radar of...
Finding out about DC focused blogs at the Social Media...
Finding out about DC focused blogs at the Social Media Breakfast. SMCDC ...
