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Archive for May, 2009
Top 10 Blog Posts [May 2009] FriendFeed Steals the Show
Peter Kim has been doing a monthly top post recap for a while now. I like this approach and decided to steal this idea and remix it a little. He does it for convenience if anyone missed any of his posts. I like it for different reasons. It’s a simple way to show you what [...]
Sometimes less is more. Sometimes less is just less.
Image via Wikipedia There’s an article in BusinessWeek that talks about the growing trend that some companies have been taking (my former employer included). Instead of cutting staff they are cutting salaries, and bonuses and benefits.I always feel a little callus when I talk about job loss because I don’t come across as very sympathetic. [...]
Google and Microsoft Role Reversal
What a day for tech news yesterday. If you didn’t hear all about Microsoft announcing their new search decision engine, Bing and Google trying to steal their thunder by announcing Wave, welcome back from your coma. I think both products look amazing and think that both could be game changers but does anyone think its [...]
Life on the Dark Side. Agency Update: They Have Cookies
It’s been something like 23 days (or there about) since I started my new gig as Digital Consulting Director at WE Studio D and I thought I would give you a quick update.For those that may not know Studio D is the independent, content, digital, consulting group within Waggener Edstrom, the 2nd largest independent PR [...]
Do You Have to DO Social Media to Work IN Social Media?
There are obvious advantages to being involved in Social Media if you want to work in Social Media. But is it necessary? Read/Write Web posted about the new NYT Social Media editor: NYTimes Appoints First Social Media Editor Little is known about Preston’s personal use of social media, she’s either using aliases or is remarkably [...]
If Chris Anderson Can’t Reinvent the Publishing World, Who Can?
Image by Tac Anderson via Flickr If Chris Anderson Can’t Reinvent the Publishing World, Who Can? This post originally ran on the Studio D blog last week. Wired Struggles to Find Niche in Magazine World – NYTimes.com Even as Chris Anderson makes a boatload of money of his ideas, subsequent books and high dollar speaking [...]
Screw the Press Release. Blog It!
I Love This! Validation is such an empowering thing. Having been arguing the power of blogs and social media for the last ~5 years I have loved watching things evolve. At first no one thought blogs would be taken seriously by businesses. Then no one thought they’d be used for anything other than marketing. Then [...]
How to Win the Real-Time Web Publishing Battle
Image by Army.mil via Flickr As the Web moves into hyper-drive the ability for organizations to turn out high quality content has never been more important. From my own experience as well as what I’ve seen others publish the life span of link shared on Twitter is 5 minutes. After that it’s old news waiting [...]
Why URL Shorteners Are Important
Image by bpedro via Flickr There’s probably hundreds of URL shorteners now. Seriously, I don’t think that’s an exaggeration. They’re really easy to build (there’s even a WordPress plugin that makes them out of your blog URL) and they are proving invaluable to content publishers. (NYT article on shorter URLs) Tinyurl was the first shortener. [...]
FriendFeed is Reaching Critical Mass
Image via CrunchBase Three months ago, while some were proclaiming that the Twitter shark had been jumped, I made the statement that Microblogging was about to go Supernova. Three months ago doesn’t seem like that long ago but in the real-time Web that was eons ago. Real-time content is all the rage right now and [...]
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