From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Social Media for Government: Coming to Chicago

Jul. 29, 2009

In response to the positive feedback from my March 2009 workshop in Washington, D.C. on the importance of government agencies to run measurement benchmarks and analytics before launching social media campaigns, Andrew Krzmarzick and I are tag teaming again this fall for two more 3-hour workshops–in Chicago on September 14 and back in DC on [...]

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Hire a Federal Manager or Use the Web?

Jul. 28, 2009

How many federal managers are necessary to get the job done? Whether creating a new position or filling a vacant one, it seems I’m continually reading about new people recruited and appointed into the Obama Administration.
The latest leadership vacancy, which chief information officer Vivek Kundra is pushing to get filled, heads the White House Office [...]

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Market Emails Timely, Unlike Yokway

Jul. 28, 2009

I received this email invitation a few hours ago:
Note the date of July 27, 2009.
Louis Gray wrote a product review of Yokway in March 2008 and the company’s Twitter feed @yokway hasn’t been updated since December 2008.
The kicker is I never heard of Yokway and turned to Google for help.
With this background, why did I [...]

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How Unfollowing May Increase Twitter Productivity

Jul. 27, 2009

If you’ve used Twitter long enough (and only you can define what “long enough” means), you’ve probably accumulated a hefty number of people and organizations you follow, right?
Unless if you have no life, you’re not staring at the incoming Twitter stream 24×7 but glance at it once in a while, whether 3-4 times a day [...]

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How to March in the #FollowFriday Twitter Parade

Jul. 27, 2009

I’m in 10,825th place in the #FollowFriday Twitter parade. Where are you in this mess of people?

Known to North American English speakers as a number sign or pound sign, the rest of the English speaking world calls the # sign a hash sign–which is preceded before certain words on Twitter for tracking purposes and identifying [...]

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Guest Post by Craig Kessler: Building Blocks of Me

Jul. 27, 2009

I don’t remember when I first found Ari’s blog. I recently moved from New York to the Washington, D.C. metro area to take a job helping with being the community manager of BudgetPulse, a free personal budgeting software web start-up that I knew nothing about and wanted to try something new within the internet [...]

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Would You Pay to Visit a Blog?

Jul. 26, 2009

If not a blog, how about any website?
Fred Wilson poses a concept about online newspapers–or any company–monetizing audiences instead of content.
He cites the Financial Times which enables its readers to visit ft.com so many times per month for free. A cookie is added to your computer, and when you stop by, say, the 10th time [...]

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