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Nuts and Bolts

Promoting your local business through blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube

07.12.2010

In my last post I mentioned I had sent a friend a long email in answer to her questions about using social media to promote her orthodontia practice. I talked about the difference between spamming your friends and promoting your business. In the second part of the email, I gave her some specific tips for [...]

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The difference between spamming friends and promoting your business

07.11.2010

I’ve had an interesting back-and-forth via Facebook email with an old friend who is starting an orthodontia practice. I had complained in my Facebook status about my friends (some of whom, in the peculiar world of Facebook, I don’t actually know) who only seem to use Facebook to promote their band or their book or [...]

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Every now and then I realize it’s the 21st century

04.27.2010

I’m having a conversation with some of my favorite colleagues about blogging and blog infrastructure, so I’m writing this post on my iPhone to show how easy and flexible WordPress is to use. I am Buck Rogers.

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Yelp proved its value yesterday. Mostly.

04.11.2010

I like Yelp, the site that crowdsources people’s opinions and gives ratings on restaurants, stores and service businesses. I also have the Yelp application on my iPhone. I don’t use either one of them much at home, because I pretty much know which restaurants I like and where they are. But I’m in Seattle this [...]

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Making WordPress act like Posterous

03.06.2010

I think Posterous is a great platform, and a really simple and flexible way to start (or reinvigorate) a blog. I started using it because it lets you post by email, and tell it where you want your text and photos to go. So if I take a picture of The Boy and want to [...]

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This design will never be finished

03.01.2010

I’ve mentioned before that The Mrs thinks I should consider medication to deal with my Shiny Object Syndrome and my obsession with the tools and techniques of sharing my various types of information online. She might be right. Sometimes it feels a bit overwhelming, then sometimes I think, “Hey, this is my hobby.” Relentless tinkering [...]

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Blogging from my iPhone

02.22.2010

Just got a new iPhone app called BlogPress that allows you not only to post to a blog and upload photos, but also attach and embed video. The photos and videos are embedded in the blog and sent to your preferred hosting service (Flickr, YouTube). I like that idea, because I’m getting more and more [...]

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Blogging irony

02.18.2010

I decided to change the theme of this blog to the Thesis theme for WordPress, after hearing so many good things about it, and watching a demo. So far, I like it. It gives much more control over a lot of basic functions, and has a control panel front end for things that you would [...]

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Refocusing on my blog and trying new tools

01.31.2010

When I spent some time with Chris Brogan in December, we talked about blogs and sharing tools like Posterous, and the different ways people use them. Chris thinks people are diluting their web presences by posting in too many places. (You can watch him say this yourself.) “Home is where the web page is,” he [...]

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Social CRM: Connecting your sales force to the social web

10.23.2009

Notes from “Social CRM: Connecting Your Sales Force to the Social Web” at the Social Media Business Forum with Mike Schneider (@schneidermike) The problem: The sales force is busy, they’re under pressure, they’ve got quotas and are presented with different methods. Social CRM: “The company’s response to the customer’s control of the conversation.” – Paul [...]

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