Posts Tagged ‘Communication’

Steve Garfield Video Experiment at Inbound Marketing Summit

This was just cool as hell. Video blogger Steve Garfield gave a great presentation at the Inbound Marketing Summit.  At the end, he asked anyone with a video device to come up front and shoot. Here’s Steve footage from the stage.  I was in a lucky spot to get asked a few questions (and now [...]

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Live From the Inbound Marketing Summit – Some of Day One

We’re coming up on the end of day one at The 2009 Inbound Marketing Summit, and the only way I can describe the experience is that it’s kind of like being at a web geek’s Disney World.  Keep watching the blog.  I’ve been lucky enough to have the chance to get a few really interesting [...]

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A Historical Time Line of Social Media – by Nick Riggs (Part 1)

Social Media has the popular buzz of 2009.  Anywhere I go, people are talking about things like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.  And yet, we forget that social media – in one form or another – has been around as long as there has been a need for people to communicate with other people. In raw [...]

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Social Networking, Business & Baseball Cards

We have a lot of friends on Facebook.  Some of us may have thousands of connections on LinkedIn.  Maybe our biggest “people collection” lives on Twitter.  But what good is it all? Collectors Baseball cards were really popular when I was kid.  My friends and I would haul around boxes of thousands of cards.  We [...]

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Blogging & Dependency

Lunch today with Eric Vessels was a cool experience.  We first met on Twitter and then through OWL.  Eric has been an internet entrepreneur since 1999, when he and a college buddy decided to start WhatTheyThink?, a targeted news and editorial website with content designed for the printing industry. Working right up the road in [...]

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Three Truths About LinkedIn Groups & Where They Fail

I’m a member of 50 LinkedIn groups. Why, you ask?  Because it makes connecting with people one-to-one MUCH easier.  That’s it.  That’s the only reason.  Maybe it’s a cardinal sin to admit this, but aside from the occasional event notification, I’ve never gotten much out of spending time working in LinkedIn groups. LinkedIn groups offer [...]

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Tweetdeck Just Changed Twitter & Global Communications

Tweetdeck just pulled ahead in the race for designing a better Twitter application.  A recent update has, in my opinion, taken the company to the lead of the pack in “…racing Seesmic to see who can be the most innovative social media browser across multiple social networks.” That quote up there comes from a post [...]

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Will You Help Us Get the Word About TweetMyTime?

I’m really grateful for everything you invest me and my friends at huber+co.  You do a lot to lend us your trust and social capital.  That’s awesome, and we’re so grateful. But today, I need to ask you for your help.  Willing to listen?  Nice! Here’s the skinny.  At huber+co, we’ve been working on a [...]

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“Jimmer” on Blogging

I first came to know Jim Brochowski through his blog.  We’ll actually, it was an @reply on Twitter that pointed me to his profile and he link to The Life of Jimmer.  But it was on Jim’s blog where I came to know Jimmer and what makes him tick as a person.  Jim’s writing created [...]

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10 Tips for Communicating on Twitter

One of the nuances of microblogs, like Twitter, is understanding that your messages have the potential to spread like wildfire – at times, reaching thousands, if not millions of receivers. But what can you do to enable such rapid dispersion?  For the most part, Twitter creates a relatively friendly environment, where simply being helpful is [...]

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