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Tools I use; iPad

By Todd Lohenry + on August 16, 2011 in Featured, Technology, Tools, Trends

n yesterday’s epic post, I wrote about what I call ‘context based computing’. Basically, in my world view, context based computing is using the right tool for the right job in the right place at the right time. Even I found it interesting that I omitted the iPad from the list of hardware I use. [...]

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Strategies I use; “context based computing”

By Todd Lohenry + 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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Why Are Some QR Codes More Scanworthy Than Others?

By Todd Lohenry + on August 15, 2011 in Infographics, Trends

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Day old news is fresh enough

By Todd Lohenry + on August 14, 2011 in Trends

I’m baaack! My week in the Galena Territory was wonderful, but now it’s back to reality. I really appreciated the time away and the chance to think about business and this blog in more abstract terms. Here’s one of the many thinks I’m pondering… The value of breaking news (news = whatever is new to [...]

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Google Plus Launch & Growth

By Todd Lohenry + on July 27, 2011 in Infographics, Just in case, Technology, Trends

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Email intervention

By Todd Lohenry + on July 27, 2011 in Technology, Trends

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I switched to Gmail the first month it came out, mere seconds after receiving an invitation from a friend and two years before joining Google. Since then, I’ve invited hundreds of people, most of whom have happily made the switch to Gmail and never looked back. But I have one friend, Andy, who’s the straggler [...]

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Using Google+ For Business: Now And The Future

By Todd Lohenry + on July 26, 2011 in Content Marketing, Social Media, Trends

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via marketaire.com “With the Google+ team still working hard on their brand pages for businesses, and Google+’s user base continuing to expand, businesses should begin to develop their Google+ strategy now to take advantage. Google has requested that brands refrain from setting up a business profile, and over the past week we saw those same [...]

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‘Curating’ information as a strategy and a tactic…

By Todd Lohenry + on July 23, 2011 in Blogging, Technology, Thoughts, Trends

Valeria Maltoni of ConversationAgent makes a great case for ‘curating’ as a content strategy. She says… “Which is where the idea that curating information could be your content strategy comes in. And I mean curating in the sense of organizing, editing, displaying, highlighting, captioning, commenting on, and all of the activities you’d see associated with [...]

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I cancelled my XM Radio account…

By Todd Lohenry + on July 18, 2011 in Technology, Tools

Image via CrunchBase For 5 years, I was a massive fan of XM Radio. Living in rural Wisconsin like I do, it was my favorite entertainment option for a loooong time. So, why did I cancel? Here are a couple of thoughts: One, I was one of the early adopters that helped make them successful [...]

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