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Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.

Twitter as an Organization – tip #4

In Continuing our series on twitter tips, I present tip #4 So you want to use twitter as a company / organization. In following our other tips, i’ll keep this short.  create a company account (nothing special, just an account reserved for professional stuff) only tweet the big things keep @replies to a minimum avoid linking…

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twitter tip #3

In Continuing our series on twitter tips, I present tip #3 Avoid twittering just for the sake of twittering.  Nothing to say today? this week? Thats okay.

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twitter tip #2

In Continuing our series on twitter tips, I present tip #2 Would you call a customer to tell them this tweet? even email it to them? If not, dont tweet it.  Posting relevant, important, news is good. Silly is okay some times if it fits your company culture. Just dont tweet when you used the…

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Twitter tips

In a new series, I’d like to share tips on using twitter effectively as an organization. Small, short and easy to swallow tips on twitter.  the first tips to kick off the series: DO NOT feed your twitter posts into your blog. People reading your blog dont care to see your @replies.  DO feed your…

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How would you fix it: Sprint/nextel

So a few weeks ago i posted some questions regarding the newspaper industry, and how to fix it. I think I have some solid ideas, that I will post later. But that post got me thinking. A new series of blog posts, on what would you do to fix a company or industry. Could be…

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Do you tweet responsibly?

So we have been really exploring the use of twitter as a tool around her for Factor1 (follow us here factor1). The jury is still out on it being useful for us. In my 2 week exploration, i find some people are litteraly just brodcasting white noise. Twittering to twitter, even if they have nothing…

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Monitor your buzz online

Ever feel like you are the last to hear about something? Maybe somone is talking about you or your organization online and you dont know about it.  Here are some great tools to keep an eye on things.  Google Alerts  Have Google email you anytime a specific term, or link pops up.  Twitter Search feed…

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the real world review

iPhone rocked the phone industry with a revolutionary PDA / phone / smart phone. Ever since every phone manufacturer has been trying to be the next iPhone.  I was really glad to see this today, Palm is asking for volunteers to review their phone. Palm, who has an upcoming device titled the “Pre”. Its touch…

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iPhone baby shaker app

In case you havent heard, some yahoo made an application for the iPhone, called “the baby shaker app” that uses the motion sensing hardware for the user to shake the phone, to get the baby to stop crying. Disturbing yes. It seems the Media is blasting Apple for allowing the application / game to be…

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another earth day post – newspapers

Since the dawn of the internet era (the mid 90’s), experts have speculated that the world of paper would go away. Everything would be digital. No newspapers, magazines, brochures, even business cards.  While a lot has shifted to the web, I still dont think the world of paper will go away 100%.  Both the New…

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