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Nov. 13, 2009

Amber Naslund researched social media job vacancies and, among her findings, wrote:
In my research, I saw several job descriptions (most, frankly) that focused heavily on how social media benefited or could impact the company and their aims to be better known. They were largely focused on tactics and tools, and few actually referenced anything from [...]

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How Mobile Friendly is Your Web Design?

Nov. 11, 2009

If you maintain a blog, how many of your readers access it from a mobile device?
While your blog analytic software would indicate the number of visitors with browser resolutions less than 800×600, what about future visitors?
From “smart phones” like the iPhone and BlackBerry to the rise of netbook users, are you focusing as much on [...]

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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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1 Essential Plugin for Your Wordpress Blog

Oct. 17, 2009

Take a look at the following comment sections of Wordpress blogs:

Do you see what’s missing?
Here are another four examples:

Do you see what these four comment sections contain that the first four lack? The answer lies in an optional check box a person writing a comment can tick to receive follow-up comments by email.
If I have [...]

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How to Discover the Truth

Oct. 17, 2009

Scanning recent Twitter messages by people I follow, I noticed this bit by Crystal King:

Curious, I clicked the link and was redirected to a blog post about a woman named Nic who was separated from her toddler at Atlanta’s airport because of a pacifier clip that set off the x-ray machine. According to the story, [...]

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Want to Meet My First 221 Twitter Friends?

Oct. 3, 2009

Short of sharing details of their lives, here’s the next best thing. Courtesy of the fine folks at Sxoop Technologies, I want to share with you the below Twitter Mosaic of the first 221 tweeps I am following, interacting with, and learning from.
Plus or minus a few additions and subtractions, these are educated and intellectual [...]

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Why I Use 22 Wordpress Plugins Today

Sep. 18, 2009

Every couple of months, I update you with a list of plugins I use on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. (I profiled 15 plugins in December 2008 and 23 plugins in March 2009.) Looking back six months, many plugins remain the same but I deactivated some and installed some more.

Akismet protects my blog from spam. Pre-installed [...]

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