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On Receiving

Jan. 4, 2010

I recently set up an astrological application to automatically post my daily horoscope on my Facebook profile wall. While some friends of mine are professional tarot card readers and palmists, I typically view the occult with a skeptical eye. When newspapers on the same day in different cities display different horoscopes, how am I supposed [...]

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Social Change, Me, and My Mustache

Nov. 19, 2009

What started as a few days last week opting not to shave led me to remember Gradon Tripp’s desire to fight prostate and testicular cancer and Mike Schneider’s video of shaving as part of a 10-year-old global movement every November “to change the face of men’s health” called Movember.
Purposefully choosing not to grow a mustache [...]

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Will Social Media Pay Off?

Nov. 3, 2009

I’ve lived a double online life since June 2009.
Over the past four months, I’ve maintained two blogs–this place where you read my strategies and tips on social media marketing–and another site where I write more sporadic but no less prolific about my campaign for city council.
In cahoots with my campaign blog, I built campaign outposts [...]

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Further Proof Social Media Ain’t Scary

Oct. 28, 2009

I wrote last week about a social media workshop I planned to illustrate why and how social media is not scary.
While I skipped over some slides, here’s the presentation I led at the First Parish Church of Newbury last night to an attendance of about 40 people:
Scary Presentation
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After my talk [...]

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Is the Future Here?

Oct. 24, 2009

Beginning at Ignite Boston 6 and continuing at Pecha Kucha Boston 13 — two different event organizers, two different venues, and two different segmented crowds that each watch a series of timed presentations that automatically advance slides every 30 seconds — I talked about the future.
As the latest edition of my Saturday roundup, I embed [...]

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Can You Help Me?

Sep. 23, 2009

“Human beings have a tendency to want to help one another,” confesses Mitch Joel in the opening sentence of his plea to ask you to buy Six Pixels of Separation, his book that argues we’re no longer connected by six degrees, but far fewer links. It’s on my list of books to read.
Seth Simonds shares [...]

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