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Ideas and Trends

If I love buying local so much, why do I buy so much from Amazon?

03.26.2011

I am a huge fan of buying local. I got a warm glow at a coffee shop this morning when I saw the list of their local sources of ingredients. I pay more money for locally-made items because I want those businesses to succeed and stay in my community. Heck, I buy soap from Piedmont [...]

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My three words for 2011

01.02.2011

I love a good meme as much as the next guy, and the “three words” meme originated by Chris Brogan has the advantage of also being a useful exercise in introspection and planning. So here are my three words for 2011: Progress. Impact. Balance. Progress This is going to be a big year for me [...]

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The day I stopped defending Facebook

10.09.2010

Facebook, as you know, has gotten a lot of grief in the past for the way it treats users’ privacy. Seemingly every few months, they make some change that has users up in arms because more of their information is exposed. I understand why people get upset, but at the same time, most people who [...]

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Baffled by Facebook, Vol. XXIII: Facebook Places edition

08.20.2010

I have no problem so far with Facebook Places. I like the idea that you can see where your friends are (assuming they’ve opted in to do so). The ability I want that so far I haven’t seen in location-based apps is to say, for instance, “Where is Jeff Cohen right now?” That would have [...]

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Sometimes apologizing wrong is worse than not apologizing

08.19.2010

A few years ago I went to the pharmacy and didn’t realize until I got home I’d been given someone else’s prescription. Our names are similar, but not our medications: instead of getting my allergy pills, I got his barbiturates. I called the pharmacy, spoke to whatever you call the head pharmacist and told him [...]

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Let’s create our own business jargon

08.09.2010

I have a love/hate relationship with bizspeak. I’m fascinated by the way phrases enter our lexicon, become popular, then die off. But I also get annoyed by hackneyed writing and lazy speech. Smart people usually fall back on cliches because they don’t have time to think of an original way to illustrate an idea, and that’s [...]

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What would you do if you woke up rich?

08.01.2010

The Mrs and The Boy and I went for a walk this morning and at some point along the route, I got to thinking about what I would do in the afternoon while he was napping. (Weekends, as you know if you’re a parent, are built around his sleep schedule.) For some reason I also [...]

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Subaru announces in-car WiFi

07.19.2010

I was just perusing Facebook, as part of my getting-ready-to-write ritual. (It’s also part of my taking-a-break-from-writing ritual and my winding-down-from-writing ritual. Essentially, if it weren’t for Facebook, I could have finished this book in an afternoon.) I came across a link to an article at PCMag.com entitled Suburu Slaps In-Car Wi-Fi into its 2011 [...]

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A post for Social Media Day

06.30.2010

Somehow I missed that Mashable had declared June 30 Social Media Day until yesterday. People are celebrating with meetups. I’m celebrating by sitting in a coffee shop working on my enterprise social media book and being distracted by Twitter and Facebook. Seems appropriate. (Writing blog posts is another of my favorite ways to distract myself from [...]

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Getting spammed by my bank

06.26.2010

Nothing new to anyone, I’m sure, but my bank just called me at home. I listened because, you know, it’s my bank. Maybe something weird was happening with my account. He thanked me for being a customer, so I knew it wasn’t them calling to tell me a check had bounced or anything. Then he [...]

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