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Use Prezi to Create Awesome Presentations

July 12, 2010

Share Herd of Prezi? If not, you are going to love it! It’s an online solution that allows you to make awesome shows for presentations. Bland boring slides are a thing of the past! The story being told in this presentation is true (kept very brief), but I’ve simply tossed together a Prezi show to [...]

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Time Warner Cable Deserves Credit for Active Engagement

July 11, 2010

Share I’ll be the first to admit that my relationship with Time Warner Cable over the years hasn’t consisted of a lot of love, but I have to take a moment and give the cable giant some props. Yesterday while watching the Tour de France my TV screen kept freezing up and at times simply went black. [...]

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Location Based Services: It’s time to get Involved

July 6, 2010

Share By now I think it’s safe to say that you’ve probably heard of location based services such as FourSquare and Gowalla. At this point, if you’ve only heard of the services, but not actually used them… I need to share a gut feeling with you. It’s time to get involved. It’s time to start [...]

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Increase Your Hustle / Get the most out of the Day

June 30, 2010

Share My recent move to New York City is forcing me to change how I do certain things and manage my time very carefully. While living in Greensboro, NC I stayed extremely busy, and time management was also crucial, but it’s just different in the city. Everything happens faster. There’s more opportunity. And there’s just [...]

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Websites: The Game has Changed

June 30, 2010

Share Let’s take a minute and talk about websites and how the game has changed. Years ago when I had my first website it was built using html and using an expensive program such as Dreamweaver was my only way to make edits. During this same time period I think many people relied heavily on [...]

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Trust the Data

June 28, 2010

Share One thing that’s great about marketers is that many of us have very strong opinions. And that’s great… but there are times where we need to stop, look at the numbers (research) and analyze what they are saying. I’ve encountered a host of situations over the years where someone has said, “people love it,” [...]

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Social Media is part of the Communication Process

June 25, 2010

Share Simply put, social media is part of the modern day communication process. Ignoring it means you have chosen not communicate with a chunk of your audience and are willing to potentially lose market share.

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HootSuite Change Makes it Easier to Manage Conversations

June 23, 2010

Share HootSuite is one of the many programs you can use to access multiple social media accounts, and is something I’ve used for a while now. I first started using it to manage my personal Twitter account, but have since implemented multiple other Facebook and Twitter accounts. And honestly, I had used Twitter.com for so [...]

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Three ways Social Media Impacted my life last Week

June 21, 2010

Share Allow me to share three good examples of how Twitter (social media) impacted my social/business life last week: While at a conference in Lansing, MI last week a fellow attendee followed me on Twitter which led to a great new connection and lots of fun conversation with she and a colleague at dinner. I met [...]

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Twitter Auto Direct Messages are… Bad

June 15, 2010

Share Twitter auto direct messages should be something that most, if not all, organizations/people should stop doing – especially those that contain links. Here’s my thought process on this. First, it’s very easy to tell when a direct message is automatically generated and they do not come across as being genuine, at all. If you [...]

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