Cranky on ad:tech and pirates

April 23, 2009

Yesterday, I made another appearance on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks. We talked about Oracle buying Sun, my recent coverage of ad:tech, the conviction of the guys at the Pirate Bay, and Oprah giving Twitter a major bump. Watch the fun.

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VIDEO: The need for PR firms to get personal

April 18, 2009

A few weeks ago, Fred Han of Perkett PR interviewed me about an article I wrote about a bad PR experience. Here’s the two part story that was the source of the interview: Hey PR, bloggers are not tools to be used My appearance on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks. Right at the beginning, John […]

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Cranky on social media rule breakers and email

April 18, 2009

A few weeks ago I made another appearance on Cranky Geeks. It was the usual fare of crankiness, but I talked about my Mashable article, “5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded” plus we talked about John C. Dvorak’s article about why he thinks email is dead. Enjoy the crankiness. We […]

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Sports and Twitter

March 30, 2009

Saturday night I was a guest on Sports Overnight America Weekend with Patrick Mauro (blog on USSportsPages.com). Pat’s been doing his sports radio show for about 14 years now. We actually met at a dinner party and have been talking radio and media for quite some time. The two of us have been looking for […]

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Priority email for your inbox. Low priority email for your Other Inbox.

March 27, 2009

Managing email is an issue we all have to deal with. The percentage of critical email to email you’d like to get to when you have the time is usually very low. But you wade through all those non-critical messages that have been accumulating from newsletters, newsgroups, and other items you’ve signed up for. Enter […]

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All the news on your favorite subject – Alltop

March 27, 2009

There are tons of tools available for organizing your personal news. Better known as RSS aggregators, my personal favorite is simply Google Reader or its companion tool that I wrote about earlier, Feedly. The problem with all these aggregation readers is you actually have to set them up. You need to find the blogs and […]

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Facebook redesign and the customer is not always right

March 27, 2009

Listen to me on ABC Radio, The Curtis Sliwa show talking about Facebook’s changes. Stream or download (Time: 6:03). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The old maxim in sales, “The customer is always right” does not hold true in technology. Because we’re being trained how to use technology by the people who are […]

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Cranky Geeks: Email is dead and what do users of Facebook know about Facebook

March 26, 2009

I made another appearance on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks this week. We talked about all the normal cranky things like John’s article about email being dead, my piece about social media rule breakers, and whether Facebook should listen to its users about interface design. Watch.

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Marketing and sales, aren't you both going after the same goal?

March 24, 2009

This article is from an event held by Marketing Transformation Services. The article has been cross posted on the Marketing Transformation Services blog. Is your marketing department supporting the sales department? Is sales feeding back the information from the field to support your marketing? Is there a collaboration loop that’s making this all happen? Simply […]

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New Age Media: Are Blogs and YouTube Better for Marketing than the New York Times?

March 24, 2009

By Scott Plamondon, guest blogging for Spark Media Solutions. This article is from an event held by Marketing Transformation Services. It has been cross posted on the Marketing Transformation Services blog. It used to be that a mention in the New York Times would be worth its weight in marketing gold. But is that still […]

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