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What Twitter as email would look like.

If only I could recreate corporate email. <sigh>
What you’re are seeing here is TweetDeck overlaying my Outlook. I only use Outlook at work because I have to. I love the simple fact that TweetDeck let’s me divide Twitter into groups. I’ve organized this by my local friends and everyone else. TweetDeck automatically separates replies […]

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Content Explosion and Re-Aggregation

There have been two huge enablers in my online publishing habits. FriendFeed and my BlackJack 2.

I’ve always had a variety of desktop *publishing tools* but my BlackJack has enabled me to create content on the go, and FriendFeed pulls all that content together. While Louis Gray is the real maven on FriendFeed and all […]

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Brand monitoring tips [Tuesday Homework]

I hope you guys are finding this series of Tuesday posts helpful. Today’s post is for all you corporate types (although this works for agency types working on client accounts).
Monitoring your brand online is critical for two reasons:

It helps prevent an online crisis from building up before you are aware of it and can respond
It […]

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How do you stay grounded?

I learned a long time ago that I am NEVER the target audience. As early adopters (if you’re a regular reader of this blog you’re probably an early adopter) it becomes easy to lose touch with reality. If you’re a fellow blogger then you live in a world filled with other bloggers and […]

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We have a Twitter Down!

The title of this blog should be read out loud in your best drunken Scottish accent.
Twitter seems to be failing at an ever increasing rate. Some people are calling for a global day of tough love to show Twitter that this isn’t acceptable.
Others are just moving on to FriendFeed. If you’re not on […]

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Why it takes me so long to add Twitter Friends

I probably have a bout 50+ Twitter friends request sitting in my inbox right now. There are some people I know that would hate to have to deal with this. I enjoy the interaction.
I click through every singe request and make sure that they’re not just some automated bot or obvious spam. If […]

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Google Reader Notes helps FriendFeed hurts del.icio.us and Twitter

Garrett Rogers over at zdnet felt the new Google Reader, notes functionality was a possible threat to Twitter. I don’t totally agree with that. It hurts Twitter only because it helps FriendFeed so much. This feature will mostly challenge bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Diigo.
While it doesn’t completely replace how I use […]

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API’s give rise to the Micropreneur

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb has written a thorough and thought provoking article during the Web 2.0 Expo (which I was not able to go to at the last minute and am still sulking over). The topic of his post specifically addresses API’s (Application Programming Interfaces). API’s let one application (app) talk to another […]

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Scoble Throws in the Twitter Towel

I just saw Robert Scoble present at the Media Relations Summit and a big part of his presentation was about Twitter. Then today this popped up.
Twitter
Robert Scoble Scobleizer I just told @ev to turn off my autofollow script. 20,000 followers is enough. I’m seeing one new Tweet every second, I can’t deal with more.
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We still need definitions before metrics.

This is an absolutely amazing post By Ross. I’d pull quote the whole article but here’s a start. Do yourself a favor and go read the whole thing and then send it to everyone in your marketing group and then every marketing manager in your company.
Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Why The Marketing World Can’t […]

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