It's OK to be a dork online – Be the Voice podcast

December 11, 2008

David Meerman Scott is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR,” “Tuned In,” and the forthcoming book, “World Wide Rave.” What is the “Be the Voice” podcast? Interviews with individuals developing thought leadership for themselves and their organization to drive business growth. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes Subscribe to the Be […]

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It’s OK to be a dork online

December 11, 2008

David Meerman Scott is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR,” “Tuned In,” and the forthcoming book, “World Wide Rave.” Summary (David Meerman Scott) Three years ago, most companies were more interested in site usability and design for their site, not content. Marketers are still being trained that the way to get […]

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Spark Minutes for the week of 12/8/08 – 12/15/08

December 8, 2008

To remind you, my Spark Minutes have turned into true one minute updates that play all throughout the day, all week, on Green 960 Online and Radio in San Francisco. But starting this week those updates will also be playing on Talk 910 KNEW in San Francisco giving The Spark Minute a total effective audience […]

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How to Produce Great Web Video in a Lot Less Time

December 5, 2008

On Technologizer, Harry McCracken’s consumer technology blog, I wrote a long guest post about speeding up the process of video production. Video is a giant time suck and over the past four years especially, I’ve run into some technologies and learned some tricks that can speed up production. No one solution will be the answer […]

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How good is Adobe Premiere's Speech Search technology?…eh

December 4, 2008

I’ve spent hours and lots of money transcribing video from interviews. So when I heard that Adobe Premiere had an automatic transcription technology called “Speech Search,” I was very excited to get the latest version of Adobe Premiere CS4. Granted, I don’t believe Adobe refers to this technology as automatic transcription technology. I’m the one […]

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Spark Minutes for the week of 12/1/08 – 12/7/08

December 3, 2008

My radio report on Green 960 online and radio has changed to a new format. The Spark Minute is now actually a one minute report that plays all throughout the day on 960 AM in San Francisco. You can also listen to this progressive talk radio station online at http://green960.com. In my reports, I make […]

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Send personal holiday cards this year

December 1, 2008

It’s December 1st and soon the flood of holiday cards will come via snail mail and my email inbox. Ninety nine percent of them are truly self serving. They just know that it’s good for business to send a holiday card to your clients. The person really doesn’t care about any sentiment in the card. […]

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Cranky about Verizon, Microsoft, and Pentagon security

November 27, 2008

Made another appearance today on Cranky Geeks along with Garnett Lee (@garnettlee) of 1UP.com. All four of us (John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley, plus myself and Garnett) were plenty cranky, or at least goofy. Enjoy. It’s about 30 minutes.

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Interview with Curtis Sliwa of ABC Radio on de-friending

November 26, 2008

Yesterday, I was interviewed by Curtis Sliwa of ABC Radio (WABC, NYC) about my Mashable article, “12 Great Tales of De-friending” (man, have I been milking this thing). You may remember Curtis. He’s the guy who started the volunteer group, The Guardian Angels, who would patrol subway cars first in NYC and then around the […]

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JaffeJuice Podcast: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

November 25, 2008

Joseph Jaffe, social media guru and author of JaffeJuice, interviewed me last week for his podcast of the same name. We talked about my article for Mashable, “Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus.” Listen to the podcast to get Jaffe’s take on the mistakes.You can subscribe via iTunes here. [Audio clip: view full post […]

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