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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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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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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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So you wanna be a thought leader?

By + on June 22, 2011 in Content Management, Social Media, Thoughts, Tools
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Here’s what I’m thinking at the close of the weekend and the start of a new week… To paraphrase my good friend Dana VanDen Heuvel of MarketingSavant, the difference between a thinker and a thought leader is that while the thinker has a point of view, the thought leader has a PUBLIC point of view; [...]

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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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A Beginner’s Guide to RSS and Google Reader

By + on June 8, 2011 in Content Management, Just in case, Social Media, Thoughts

Google Reader is the killer app for ‘personal news aggregation’ for ‘thought leadership’ marketing. It all comes down to effectively managing rss feeds… What is RSS? An RSS Reader is a simple and easy way to read your favorite news site or blogs. Instead of going out to these site to read the most recent [...]

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The Ultimate Info Smorgasbord!

By + on June 1, 2011 in Content Management, Social Media, Technology, Thoughts

Image via CrunchBase Are you still getting email newsletters? I’m doing everything I can to eliminate them and keep my inbox for ‘just in time’ information only. Wait! Where do I get the information which was contained in those newsletters? Through newsfeeds. Here’s a post that might help you get started… “Do you have a [...]

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RSS readers in decline?

By + on May 7, 2011 in Content Management, Social Media, Technology, Thoughts, Trends

Image via CrunchBase This one really has me scratching my head… “One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. I for one still [...]

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Free online webinar: ‘How to be a Google Reader Rockstar!’

By + on March 11, 2011 in Content Management, Just in case, Thoughts

  This is not an old post promotion! I will be doing a ‘brown bag’ lunch and learn at noon CST Friday, March 18, 2011 on how to use Google Reader like a Rockstar…  Despite what you may have heard, RSS is not dead. In fact, I remain convinced that knowing how to proactively manage RSS feeds [...]

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