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Email Is Not Broken; We Are

By + on April 21, 2012 in Personal News Aggregation

Here’s an interesting perspective on the ‘problem’ of email… There’s a constant flow of “email is/is not broken” articles across the internet, but most of them miss the point. Email as a system is not broken, but we, through our email behaviors, are. Nearly all of the articles written recently about fixing email have concentrated [...]

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I’ve been scrambling…

By + on November 9, 2011 in Content Management, Featured, Thoughts, Tools

…since 11/1 to come up with a replacement for Google Reader’s ability to synthesize rss feeds on the fly and have been wildly unsuccessful in my quest so far. Of all the current options, using the new delicious seems to hold the most promise. Delicious will allow me to tag ‘bookmarks’ on the fly and [...]

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Send a video email before making a phone call?

By + on October 14, 2011 in Just in case, Social Media

A new client, Chala of Coachtactics in Toronto wrote me this morning asking my opinion on a post she found in Linkedin… As a general practice our team will try and use video email before calling a potential prospect. We have found our conversion rates improve and a relationship as been built before you even [...]

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Strategies I use; “context based computing”

By + on August 15, 2011 in Blogging, Featured, Technology, Thoughts, Tools, Trends
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A few weeks ago, Mitch Joel zinged me [not directly, but indirectly] with a relatively innocuous statement he made on his blog… It’s hard to believe, but some brands have a Blog simply to appear higher up in the search engines. Can you imagine creating content for the sole purpose of trying to game the [...]

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Social media strategy in 7 steps

By + on July 31, 2011 in Social Media, Thoughts, Tools

Interesting thoughts from Jay Baer’s “Convince & Convert” blog… Here are some additional ideas… “Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Why? Because tools will change. They always do. There was a time when Netscape seemed invincible. Yahoo, too. Myspace also. If you fall in love with tools, you’ll [...]

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Ouch! Email and Productivity…

By + on July 22, 2011 in Just in case

Looking to become more productive? “Yet another reason to shut down your email client (or close your Gmail tab) and process messages in batches: a study shows that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. That’s more than a minute per email, and could easily [...]

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Tactic #7: Bookmark socially!

By + on July 7, 2011 in 5 Minute University, Facebook, Featured, Social Media, Tools
This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Top 10 Tactics and Tools

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series: Top 10 Tactics and ToolsAlthough the perspective focuses on Delicious, the message is clear; Bookmarking has more value when you use a tool that saves your bookmarks out to a website where they can be accessed or shared from any computer to any computer or [...]

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Shareaholic…

By + on June 28, 2011 in Content Management, Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Thoughts

Here’s my new, favorite Firefox plugin… “Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader notes, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly [...]

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#hottoppix for June 20, 2011

By + on June 20, 2011 in Facebook

Things we’ve been tracking in the past 24 hours… Take Your Show on the Road With the Right Mobile Office Tools June 20, 2011   Why You Should Repeat One Digit in Your Phone’s 4-Digit Lockscreen PIN [Security] June 20, 2011   Five Steps for Getting More Facebook Fans June 19, 2011   Optimize the [...]

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WiseStamp…

By + on June 9, 2011 in Technology

OK, now this is cool! If you’re a webmail user — and by now I hope you are after hearing me tout Gmail — here’s an essential Firefox extension that you need to have… “WiseStamp a Firefox extension enables you to easily customize & add personalized email signatures on any webmail service (Gmail ,Yahoo, AOL, [...]

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