I occasionally smoke cigars. I’m not a cigar aficionado, there’s too much to learn and I don’t really have the time to get a full education. This is not a post about cigars. But, I know what I like and a like a good smoke every so often.
You can get good cigars cheaply online (surprise!), [...]
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Transparency is born from confidence
January 25th, 2010
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How to host a TweetUp
December 1st, 2009
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So, you want to take your organization’s use of Twitter to the next level by organizing an informal gathering of people interested in a fun, informal, and informative networking event? Good – you should do this every 3 months or so, to get out there and meet people, let them put a face to your [...]
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VentureFizz brings people and tech together in Boston
October 19th, 2009
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Keith Cline is the founder of Dissero, a recruiting firm focusing on emerging growth companies in the Northeast. I’ve known Keith for five years, and respect his ability to find the right people to fit the right jobs in emerging technology companies. For those who’ve been tasked with hiring talent for a web tech company [...]
End The Social Media Hype
October 17th, 2009
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I was able to attend the Inbound Marketing Summit with Mike Lewis from Awareness, to stream and record an interactive panel discussion from the floor of the show. This was a joint effort between our two companies, as well as the organizers of the Summit – New Marketing Labs. This was one of the best [...]
Watch Social Media Breakfast 15
August 10th, 2009
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The Power and Peril of Online Communities
This past Friday, August 7th, I went down to the main office of Communispace in Watertown, MA for another cool and exciting Social Media Breakfast (SMB). This was the 15th SMB in Boston organized by Bob Collins, and they just keep getting better. SMB15 was all about “The [...]
Hashtags need to be short, unique, descriptive
July 31st, 2009
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Here’s another great post that came out of an email conversation. This one was between myself and Mike Lewis, VP Marketing at Awareness, social media guru, and all around great guy.
We were discussing the creation of a hashtag. For those of you who may not be familiar, a hashtag is a simple way to classify [...]
Posted in social media | Tags: hashtags
TweetDeck v0.21b Release provides much needed UI improvements
December 24th, 2008
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This morning, TweetDeck v0.21b was released, providing a boatload of small, but much needed, user interface improvements. For those of you who don’t already know TweetDeck, it is a Twittter client. It’s different from some of the other ones out there, in that “it aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an [...]
Holiday Fun at NogUp
December 23rd, 2008
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Last night I had some fun with the local Boston Twitter community at the NogUp at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square – not the Tommy Doyle’s in Kendall Square. I saw some folks I had met before, @recklessstudio and @girlgamay, and was able to put a few faces to names – folks like @jeffcutler and [...]
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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.7
December 11th, 2008
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I just updated to Wordpress 2.7 and right off the bat, I’m pleasantly surprised. First off, upgrading was a breeze. All my plugins are working just great. Second, the amount of new features and UI improvements is quite significant for a “minor” numbered release. One of the new features I’m currently using is the “QuickPress” [...]
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LinkedIn rolls out app engine
October 29th, 2008
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This morning on LinkedIn, I saw that the application platform that was originally introduced earlier this year with a few LinkedIn-specific apps such as People you may know, custom people search results, and job search, has been rolled out large scale and now includes applications built by 3rd party developers. There are now 9 applications [...]
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