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Stop The Hype About The Hype: Hurricane Irene

29 August 2011

There was a lot of hype around the impending arrival of Hurricane #Irene over the August 26 – August 28, 2011 weekend along the eastern seaboard of the US.  A lot of media were talking about it via multiple channels, from TV and radio, to Twitter and Facebook, and everything else in between.  In fact, [...]

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Required Skills to Enter the Digital World Today

10 August 2011

Over on Web Ink Now (David Meerman Scott’s blog), he has a great recent post about what a radical CMO might do nowadays: hire a bond trader into the marketing organization.  Jump over (see link below) and read why – it’s a good read and alludes to another topic David wrote about in the past, [...]

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How to Be a Good Manager

27 May 2011

I’m probably breaking like 85 rules of blogging here, but I don’t care.  I’m re-blogging my own post.  See, a while back, I wrote a post on empathy.  I included it here, or you can jump and read it. The point I was covering there was about customer service.  But ‘customer’ can be used more [...]

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Subjectively Speaking’s Greatest Clicks (2010 edition)

29 December 2010

2010 is coming to a close. Thank you all for reading, and thanks even more to those that left a comment and interacted.  That’s the best part about doing this whole thing.  If you’re a regular reader, I thank you for taking time to read what I have to offer.  If you arrived at the [...]

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What to Write When You Can’t Write

6 December 2010

I was tightening up a draft for a post this week. I sat in front of the keyboard, looking at the text, looking where I could trim it. I didn’t get writers block, per se – the core content was written. But I just couldn’t muster up the energy to finish it. I wasn’t feeling [...]

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How Findable Are You?

21 October 2010

You’ve got an about page.  Maybe you’ve got a contact page.  (this is a bit different if you are a person or a company, but the idea still holds…)  Great.  Are you really findable?  Are you easily reachable? I picked up one of the pieces to my daughters’ toys recently, and saw this. It’s a [...]

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