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Twitter Starter and Beyond

This past week I had an article appear in the local paper trying to explain Twitter and why it’s a such a useful tool and how to get started using it. The premise was that I keep running in to resistance to Twitter even among technically adept and adventurous people. I do admit in [...]

August 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Life notes, Local Tech Notes, Social Media | Leave a comment

Review: Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuck

In my most recent Tech Beat article I included a  reference to Gary Vaynerchuck’s Crush It! It was sort of a mini-review within a longer article. I thought I’d give the book  more thorough treatment here where word count is not an issue.

If you are looking for a blueprint [...]

January 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Book Reviews, SEO, Social Media | One comment

The Social Media Revolution?

Some people think social media is a fad. It’s possible that the tools we know today such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so many others are fads. But is the trend itself going to fade? What do you think? Is it a fad a powerful shift in the way we communicate and consume information [...]

August 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: SEO, Social Media | 4 comments

Fight Crime With Social Media

I love this article about the Boston Police Dept. using social media to track down bicycle thieves. Where are our local law enforcement services with this stuff? Anyone know?

Technorati Tags: law enforcement, Social Media, social networking

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Local Tech Notes | 6 comments

I Have Been Untwittered

Update 2: This morning my account was restored. Yay! It appears it was human error. Go figger.

Update: Apparently I am not alone. It seems there has been a sudden influx of suspended accounts. So something is awry with Twitter. It’s not me.

Suddenly, this afternoon, I stopped receiving tweets in my desktop application [...]

July 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Life notes, Social Media | 6 comments