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December 30, 2009

Notify stands to transform how you monitor your email.

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6 Reasons Your Organization Needs Google Voice

December 22, 2009

I’ve been trying out Google Voice for about 6 months now. I like the service, most notably the voicemail transcriptions, but I know I’m not taking advantage of the majority of the features of the service. You know who would, though? Smaller volunteer-run organizations. I’ve spent several years in such organizations, and I just took [...]

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Should Twitter be Banned at Conferences?

December 16, 2009

Yes, according to Joseph Jaffe. In episode JJTV #60, Jaffe pledges to personally escort disrespectful tweeters out of any conference he’s attending. It’s a known fact that I dislike online video, but I was curious to see what Jaffe’s reasoning was. Was it that attendees are too busy on their phone to be fully paying [...]

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Go Ahead and Echo

December 8, 2009

Social media changed the marketing and journalism game because it enabled anyone to be a publisher. Some would say that we should each contribute: that we have our own valuable opinions to share. Others maintain that at some point we’re just all adding noise and it becomes more difficult to find worthwhile content. Given my [...]

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Career Advancement Core Conversation at SxSW

December 1, 2009

Back in a post last August, I asked you, my blog readers and twitter followers, to vote for my SxSW proposal: “Forging your Ideal Career”. And you listened! Today I’m very happy to announce that I will be speaking at the 2010 South By Southwest Interactive Festival. As I mentioned back in the blog post, [...]

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List me on Twitter

November 30, 2009

Earlier this month, Twitter introduced a new “List” feature. At first glance, it may seem that these are simply the official Twitter version of “groups” that different third party applications have been offering users for quite a while. But there are some key differentiating factors between groups and lists.

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Is “Login with LinkedIn” Imminent?

November 27, 2009

Will we soon see “LinkedIn Connect” join the ranks of Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect and MySpace ID? Do we need such a thing?

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Superfreakonomics Book Review

November 25, 2009

Before learning about mavens in The Tipping Point, the magic 10,000 Hours in Outliers or the fact that the biggest trends are actually the smallest from Microtrends, my appetite for social sciences books and the examination of societal patterns and trends was whet with Freakonomics. So when publisher Harper Collins contacted me to review SuperFreakonomics, [...]

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The Sign

September 8, 2009

In my first day of Linguistics 201: Semantics, the instructor showed us a British roadsign: All the students laughed at the unintentional ambiguity of the statement. And in our amusement, I don’t know that any of us actually focused on the true meaning of the sign. Every time you put something into the public domain, [...]

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