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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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Hey! It’s the cover of my book!

10.18.2010
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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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Is there a way to mark an item “to do” inside an @evernote note and have it populated to a master to do list?

09.19.2010

I use Evernote for keeping notes during calls and meetings. Often something comes up that I want to add to my to do list, and I write it this way in my note: *TODO: Send an email to Clint Flamblemast re pumpkin rodeo Then at the end of the call, I transfer all those to [...]

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If you want my old job as SAS social media manager…

08.20.2010

Wednesday was my last day at SAS as social media manager. I’ve written about my departure (two posts, actually: one on my SAS blog and one here) and the decision to give up a great job at a great company to go to New Marketing Labs. My old job was posted yesterday on the SAS [...]

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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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I’m joining the team at New Marketing Labs

08.16.2010

It’s well past midnight on the eve of SocialFresh Charlotte, and I should either be sleeping or going over my presentation for tomorrow, but I’m in a reflective mood. I was talking this evening with Tom Webster, Amber Naslund and Chris Penn and realized SocialFresh Charlotte 2009 was my first real social media speaking gig. [...]

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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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