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Competing with SocialToo for Paid Twitter Services

Apr. 19, 2009

If you haven’t heard of SocialToo, it is a “computerized personal assistant” for Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
SocialToo is also stealing your money.
Don’t get me wrong. SocialToo offers outstanding services, such as enabling you to automatically follow anyone who follows you (or unfollow anyone who unfollows you), generate automatic direct messages to send to new followers [...]

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Why I Donate to Wikipedia

Dec. 24, 2008

Everyone is writing about Christmas, Santa Claus, and tidings today.
Not me.
I want to focus this blog post on Wikipedia, the recipient of too many links from my blog over the past 19 months.
I ask you to join me–and donate.
My request does not come lightly. People are asking for money left and right. The economy is [...]

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Advice on Doing Business in China (with Pictures!)

Oct. 22, 2008

Shel Israel departs the United States in two weeks for his virgin trip to the People’s Republic of China, in conjunction with The China Business Network.
He’s conducted much research, including an interview yesterday with Kaiser Kuo, the Ogilvy China Group Director for Digital Strategy.
He will meet with scores of technologists, scientists, and executives. The highlight [...]

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On the China Ministry of Commerce and My First SlideShare

Oct. 21, 2008

As the world impatiently awaits financial relief from Wall Street and Capitol Hill, and eyes gaze east toward the People’s Republic of China to see what they will do in the name of debt, it’s worth noting that Walt Disney was right when he called this planet a small world. You only need to look [...]

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1 Reason to Love Burger King in the Heat

Jul. 20, 2008

After spending a whirlwind 36 hours helping a friend move her belongings in a 10′ Budget rental truck from Brookline, Massachusetts to Brooklyn, New York, all I can say is thank God for Burger King.
I never thought I’d write that sentence.
Seeking air-conditioned shelter from the scorching 90-degree day outside (or is it hotter?), added [...]

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7 Travel Tips for the 51st Parallel

Jul. 9, 2008

Red Lake, named after the color given off by underwater gold deposits, sits relatively untouched in northwestern Ontario within the Canadian Shield.
Geologically known as the Laurentian Plateau and created from the last Ice Age, the Canadian Shield is a pristine landscape of boreal forest, tundra, and exposed Precambrian bedrock and is broken by thousands of [...]

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How Social Media Almost Helped Me Publish a Story

Jul. 7, 2008

I almost wrote a feature story for the Let’s Go best-selling travel guide series.
The key word is almost.
I’ll elaborate in a moment. I first want to pay homage to Thom Singer and Chris Brogan, who, respectively in new posts today, ponder why C-level executives aren’t active in social media and why social networking is necessary.
In [...]

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