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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008One of the biggest knocks against MySpace — especially from me — was that the design of the profile pages was just too busy. Too much color, flashing boxes, music and spam.
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I never even made a profile on MySpace because I never saw the need to enter that public online chaos. Technically, […]
I am a slave to my Google Reader–efficiency is simple ignorance
Friday, March 7th, 2008It started as such an innocent tool. In my love of Gmail, I stumbled upon the powerful Google Reader (reader.google.com) and begin to fill it with RSS feeds from my favorite Web destinations. Instantly, my reader became the fastest way to skim through the gaming blogs, tech news and business musings of the talking heads […]
Is Community Management the future of marketing?
Monday, February 11th, 2008There’s a reason that I want to train myself on social media and integrate a role as a community manager into my normal public relations duties. As more and more marketers profess the equal ground that social networks create between marketers and consumers, marketers have to redefine themselves.
Jeremiah Owyang questioned on a recent post how […]
Monitoring the Web: Where in the Google are you?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I’ll take your Seth Godin, and I’ll raise you one.
I suggest a tip I got a long while back from Scott Ginsberg, “The Nametag Guy,” about tracking your presence on the Web:
Set up a Google Alert for your name.
Really, go do it now.
By setting up a Google Alert for your name, you can easily keep […]
Why do all successful people have to be assholes?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Note: I apologize if the word “asshole” offends you, but for the purpose of this post, I am going to have to use the word quite a bit. Earmuffs please.
I got into a little debate over at On Moneymaking tonight about whether you have to be an asshole to be successful. Jon’s post there suggests […]
