- How open are you? Conduct an Openness Audit to find out.
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Charlene LiWhen “Groundswell” came out, I was frequently asked the seemingly innocent little question “How open do I need to be?” It was asked in the face of managers and executives being asked to engage with cust…
- Sell the Benefits of Telecommuting for an Easy Work-at-Home Transition [Telecommuting]
Published: June 22, 2010Source: LifehackerThe key to getting your boss to put the stamp of approval on your telecommuting dreams is an excellent proposal. Sell your boss on the benefits of getting you…
- Newspapers Are Still Dying, But the News Is Not Going Anywhere
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!Despite newspaper share prices seeing a 380% increase in the last year, don’t be swayed by the perceived recovery. The only way for newspapers to survive is by investing resources into innovation online.Exp…
- How to Sync iPhone Notes to Your Gmail Account [IOS4]
Published: June 22, 2010Source: LifehackerIt was previously impossible to easily synchronize your iPhones notes between devices, but yesterdays iOS4 firmware update adds a feature capable of saving not…
- Zuckerberg: I’m Not Worried About Twitter Anymore
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderIn the fall of 2008, Facebook tried to buy Twitter. When that fell through, Mark Zuckerberg’s company spent the spring of 2009 cloning Twitter features.
But all that’s over now.
What happened?
In an interview w… - Let’s Compile an iOS To-Do List
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TechnologizerCompared to most cell-phone software upgrades, Apple’s updates to its iOS (née iPhone OS) are low on suspense and uncertainty. You don’t need to sit around wondering if your device will run iOS 4, and when…
- Google Docs Can Now Convert Images and PDFs to Text
Published: June 22, 2010Source: EpicenterGoogle’s web-based document editor can now convert the text inside your PDFs and images into text you can edit.
When you upload a file to Google Docs, you’ll see the option to “Convert text from PDF or i… - 3 Things Facebook Does Very Well
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!In recent months, Facebook and its young CEO have received a bevy of criticism from users and press following the company’s decision to automatically opt all users into its Open Graph initiative. In spite of…
- iOS 4 folders: Usable, but poorly implemented
Published: June 22, 2010Source: MacworldiOS 4′s addition of folders should make home screen navigation simpler. But Lex Friedman complains that the feature’s implementation needs work.
- Curate Your Own Podcast With Huffduffer
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TheAppleBlogIf you’ve never heard of Huffduffer before, you’re in for a treat. If maybe you’ve played around with it before but never quite grokked it, this may help shift your thinking a bit. Simply put, Huffduffe…
- RUMOR: Apple to debut new iOS-capable iMacs at special event within next 60 days
Published: June 22, 2010Source: MacDailyNewsApple will release the new iMacs at a Special Event within…
- iPad Left Vulnerable After Record iPhone Patch Job
Published: June 22, 2010Source: SlashdotCWmike writes With Mondays iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. However, the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer…
- 5 Useful Google Command Line Tricks [CommandLine]
Published: June 22, 2010Source: GizmodoLast week, Google rolled out a fun new feature that lets users interact with Google Apps via command line. Naturally, our friends at LifeHacker geeked out with…
- Cultural Transparency ÷ Risk = Upward Mobility
Published: June 22, 2010Source: in over your headThese are just notes. Some of the links may be incomplete but the basis, I think, is strong.
Theory: The more you can find out about your culture, the more you’re capable of moving upward. This is buffered by… - Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't want to share their location
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogApple has found a new way to get people to agree to online tracking: withhold applications from them if they don’t. This week Apple is launching a new iPhone. And with that comes a new operating system and the…
- Seeing your Foursquare check-ins as an elevation map
Published: June 22, 2010Source: The InquisitrBy now most people will have seen the images of incidents of crime in San Francisco as elevation maps so it was only a matter of time before folks decided to play with other kinds of data – say for example o…
- Used Home Sales: Shockingly Bad Report
Published: June 22, 2010Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home PageZacks.com submits:
by Dirk van DijkIn May, Existing Home Sales fell 2.2% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.66 million. However, sales were up 19.2% from extremely depressed levels of a year ago. Sale… - Foursquare Now Adding Nearly 100,000 Users A Week
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TechCrunchOver the past several months, Foursquare has had a number of impressive stats for a startup. Some of them involved SXSW, some involved overall check-ins numbers, some involved deals signed. But at the end of t…
- The Truth And Lies Of Networking
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist ImageNetworking is critical for success. Yes, online social networking has changed this, but meeting in our protein forms still cant be beat. Its amazing how some people still get this all wrong.
I love networking…
- This world will amaze you
Published: June 22, 2010Source: WritelifeI just came back from walking the dog in the park. While there, we met a guy. We stopped and chatted. He told me his story. I now feel exuberant.
His story contained joy and tragedy; points of recognition; coin… - How Microsoft Foresaw The iPad – And Then Blew It (MSFT, AAPL)
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderThe technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It’s a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery…
- LinkedIn Revamps Groups with Likes, Follows and Discussions
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will be rolling out a complete overhaul to its Groups feature to make creating and following conversations easier and more engaging.When you visit a revamped LinkedIn Group (c…
- When to Stop Drinking from the Information Fire Hydrant
Published: June 22, 2010Source: CopybloggerI’ve been working with people and helping them figure out their personality styles for years, but I’m brand-new to blogging.
So I did the logical thing and started researching. How to write an interesting… - The Most Powerful Secret In Facebook Ads
Published: June 22, 2010Source: All FacebookYesterday we discussed the trick to growing a Facebook fan base — to place the like button everywhere, get folks to like everything, as treat your fan base like an email list. Now that you have the initial s…
- How To Prepare For A Sales Job Interview
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderIf youre a good sales person, youll know how to promote your most valuable product — your ability to sell.
You should prepare for a sales interview in the same way youd prepare for a sales call, Allison Nawo… - Google Brings Drug Info to Search Results
Published: June 22, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebIf there’s anything that a recent ear ache taught me, it’s that searching for answers on the Internet can be a trying task at times. The world is full of people – all of them doctors in their own mind – and the…
- Q&A with a Story Guru: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg: We Need to Create Stories that Bring Us Home to Ourselves and to What Truly Matters
Published: June 22, 2010Source: A Storied CareerSee a photo of Caryn, her bio, and Part 1 of this QA.
QA with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Question 2:
Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in hum…
- Here’s How Steve Jobs And Facebook Threaten Web Freedom
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderWhen Elizabeth Stark co-founded the Open Video Alliance in 2009, it’s safe to say that most folks thought that the words “Web” and “Open” were synonymous.
Stark is an Ivy League optimist. She’s the… - FourWhere Adds Yelp and Gowalla Support
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!The Foursquare-Google Maps mashup FourWhere has just added support for Gowalla and Yelp. The data from the three services is then displayed on a Google Map.While this in and of itself could be helpful and cool…
- Posterous Targets Ning In Massive Switching Campaign. Who Is Next?
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TechCrunchWe’re big fans of easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous, which has seen fast growth, revenue and impressive funding since its launch in 2008. Over the past six months Posterous has steadily added nearly a d…
- The Kindle Won
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TechCrunchI’ve been thinking this for a long while: Amazon won the ereader war. They were first to market – not officially, but in terms of mindshare, they offer a software package that is compelling on almost every…
- Google Voice Now Available to Everyone in U.S.
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!Google Voice is now available for everyone (provided you have a U.S. phone number).The service, which started life out as GrandCentral, acts as a unified phone number. It can be used to make free calls to the…
- Salesforce Chatter Now Available to the Public
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Mashable!Today, Salesforce.com’s Chatter collaboration application is now available to all Salesforce.com customers. First announced back in November, Salesforce Chatter was rolled out to beta customers in February….
- How naming will work with Twitter Annotations
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Scripting NewsAnnotations is a feature coming soon for Twitter that allows developers to attach arbitrary bits of metadata to tweets. I’ve written about this idea several times, most recently on April 9.
How Twitter can… - After Four Months In Private Beta, Salesforce Chatter Finally Arrives As A Public Conversation
Published: June 22, 2010Source: TechCrunchSalesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world, Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta. Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce…
- Use Ad Testing to Help Reach Your PPC Marketing Goals
Published: June 22, 2010Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceOnce a PPC account is set up and running, a good account manager is always looking for ways to improve results to better reach the account’s marketing goals. One such way is to test different types of ad me…
- Social media: where PR becomes 'customer care'
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogATT has a lucrative exclusive for the iPhone in the United States.
But that has proven to be a double-edged sword. While the iPhone has
helped ATT acquire lots and lots of customers, it has also
strained the co… - What Does Open Leadership Look Like?
Published: June 22, 2010What Does Open Leadership Look Like?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Marketing podcast with Charlene Li (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes
My guest fo… - Salesforce releases Facebook for suits
Published: June 22, 2010Source: The RegisterChattering classes
Salesforce.com is today expected to release its Facebook for businesses against established enterprise collaboration software from Microsoft and IBM.… - 100 Writing Mistakes To Avoid – Our First Book Is Available Now!
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Daily Writing TipsOne of the fastest ways to improve your writing skills is to free yourself from the most common English mistakes: things like exchanging less with fewer, misspelling its as it’s, or placing c…
- Don't snowglobe me, bro
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Seth's BlogHow important is it? Is it so important you need to interrupt everyone, every single one of your customers?There are only
a few signs on my way through security, yet there, on the biggest of all, is a warn… - Medicare payment cuts and unintended consequences
Published: June 22, 2010Source: db's Medical RantsHow Medicare’s Payment Cuts For Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs Changed Patterns Of Treatment
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, enacted in 2003, substantially reduced payment rate…
- 5 Steps for Selling to B2B Customer 2.0
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Social Media B2BWe introduced you recently to Customer 2.0, the savvy, vocal and socially engaged buyer who favors online communications to discuss products, trends and personal issues with both peers and businesses–across m…
- Where does PR fit Within Social CRM?
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Social Media GlobetrotterLast week I had the pleasure of presenting at PRSA in New York (thanks Deirdre!) and while my original presentation was supposed to be around community building for PR professionals I decided to mix things up a…
- Social Content
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Conversation AgentHave you been watching the World Cup? I’m a football fan, so I don’t count, I would be watching anyway. I could not help but notice, however, that since we can track conversations about #worldcup and the var…
- Content Marketing: Definitions of Curation & Context
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Online Marketing BlogCompanies are realizing the value in “brands as publishers” and are making real commitments to the creation of content in their online marketing mix. It’s no longer enough to provide fundamental features…
- Apple iOS 4 update frustrates iPhone 3G owners
Published: June 22, 2010Source: The RegisterOur upgrade did not go smoothly – and we’re not alone
Unsurprisingly, there are reports of woes among iPhone users when upgrading to iOS 4 and we even have first hand experience of this here at Reg Hardware. On… - Apple: Here’s How to Opt Out of Our Targeted Ads (But Not Our Location Tracking) (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechmemePeter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple: Here’s How to Opt Out of Our Targeted Ads (But Not Our Location Tracking) — Apple is rolling out its new iPhone operating system, which means that it is also rolling out… - This Is, Hands Down, The Best Thing I Read All Day
Published: June 21, 2010Source: The Social Customer ManifestoI Am Not A Brand: http://bit.ly/99NRwUThe killer pull-quote: We can, if we group together, fight off the weenuses and hosebags who want to turn the Internet into a giant commercial…
- Mobile Employees, Consultants Need Mobile WiFi Hotspots
Published: June 21, 2010Source: louisgray.comOne of the quirks of being a full-time consultant is scheduling one’s day with multiple clients in multiple locations, with multiple technology environments. Just as one might consider who they are meeting with…
- Powerful and cool ways to use Google Command Line
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Boing BoingLifehacker’s Adam Pash has five really sweet little tips for getting the most out of Google new Command Line tool, which allows you to manage a wide variety of Google services from the command line.
Quickly…
- Tungle Is An Irreplaceable Web Scheduling App
Published: June 22, 2010Source: louisgray.comPadding on to my comments about mobile WiFi being a must-have for mobile consultants, another indispensable product I have turned to in recent months is Tungle, or more specifically, Tungle.me, which lets me op…
- The Beauty of Keeping Information Shareable
Published: June 22, 2010Source: chrisbrogan.comI release all content on [chrisbrogan.com] under the Creative Commons license, which means that you can share and reuse my information within reason and with some attribution back to the original post.
One gre… - Sponsored Post: Take Advantage of Catalyst’s Super Early Bird Special
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Michael Hyatt’s BlogIf you have never been to a Catalyst Conference, you need to go. I can’t be more direct than that. You will thank me later.
Catalyst is the premier conference for anyone who is serious about leadership. The…
- Enough with the branding BS
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Doc Searls WeblogThe backlash against “personal branding” has begun. I saw it first in this post by Yvonne in BlogHer. Now you can feel the line begin to whip with Manifesto: I am Not a Brand, by Maureen Johnson, also in…
- Hacking Safari Reader For Fun and Profit
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Pimp My SafariSafari 5 introduces a new feature that allows you to view a simplified, distraction-free, easier-reading version of a web page by clicking on a “Reader” button in the address bar of Safari. Reader provides…
- Exuberance fuels creativity – book review
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Writelife“Life could be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.”
– McHugh/Fields –
(This review originally appeared on the Thoughtwrestling blog, June 8, 2010.)
I think it’s safe to say most people would rat… - The Value Of A Customer’s Hat
Published: June 21, 2010Source: The Ad Contrarian
- How Hanes & Dyson Are Winning By Naming The Problems They Solve
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Influential MarketingOne of the most basic premises of marketing is that you need to be able to articulate the consumer need that you are solving. The problem is that sometimes this need and your solution for it is a complex story…
- Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success
Published: June 22, 2010The biggest obstacle standing in the way of companies’ embrace of social media isn’t the tools, or measurement confusion, or even being able to make the time to do it day-to-day. The biggest obstacle is cor…
- Why “selective attention” can kill your ads
Published: June 22, 2010Source: Direct Creative BlogLast week, I asked you to take a test to see if you’re a word nerd. This week, I have another test for you. And it’s a doozy.
The concept is “selective attention.” I don’t want to spoil it, so watch t… - Google Apps phone-lock issues with iOS 4
Published: June 21, 2010Filed under: iPhoneIn a strange twist with what appears to be a security issue, users of Google Apps who set up their accounts using the Microsoft Exchange settings (aka ActiveSync) may find that their iPhones…
- New App Color-Codes and Filters Your Tweets
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Mashable!Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpar…
- Apple Updates Privacy Notice with Location
Published: June 21, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebLocation-based computing is a trend ReadWriteWeb has been tracking for some time. But Apple’s update of its privacy policy this week emphasizes location’s arrival in mainstream of consumer communications.
“To…
- Worth downloading – Stats show #socialmedia integration w/ email substantially increases ctr -…
Published: June 21, 2010Worth downloading – Stats show #socialmedia integration w/ email substantially increases ctr – http://bit.ly/bG7V3w
- Apple’s Small Problem: iOS 4 And iPhone 4 One-Up The iPad
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechCrunchThe tech world is buzzing about iOS 4, the latest version of the iPhone operating system that Apple released today. And rightly so — it’s an improvement over the previous version in every way. In fact, once…
- Telco Industry Is Prepared For Telco Reform: It Has Hundreds Of Former Gov’t Officials Ready To Write The Laws
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechdirtWant to see how regulatory capture works in action? Congress is apparently gearing up to start the massive process of reforming telecom/broadband laws later this week, and the communications companies are read…
- How to Optimize Your PPC Campaign to Profit From Every Click (Advanced)
Published: June 21, 2010Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceWarning: This is a very complicated and math heavy post. It is best read slowly in small doses to ensure you can fully digest it all. I will also point out that I’m not a math or analytics expert so what you…
- Who Is Josh Weinstein?
Published: June 21, 2010Source: GameChangersOn his excellent MBAStoryteller site (yes! more MBA storytellers!) Nabil Laoudji, who’s in the Sloan MBA program at MIT, posted this 2006 video by Josh Weinstein.
Weinstein’s video demonstrates brilliantl…
- Your Social Media Policy May Not Save You
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist ImageCompanies continue to struggle with Social Media – especially when it comes to rules, policies and guidelines.
There are three guidelines that should be a part of every Social Media guidelines or policy – espe…
- Help wanted … with your careers page
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Compete on UsabilityIn searching for a new job recently, I’ve seen many companies disregard the users of their career website pages. Most clutter this section of their websites with mission and branding statements, meaningless pho…
- App developers declining offers from Microsoft, Google
Published: June 21, 2010Following reports suggesting Microsoft has been offering incentives to bring developers onto the Windows Phone platform, Chillingo has confirmed the practice and offered reasons for refusing. The developer, whi…
- iPhone-to-Mac FaceTime video calls might not happen until next year — because Apple may be saving it as a big featur…
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsideriPhone-to-Mac FaceTime video calls might not happen until next year — because Apple may be saving it as a big feature for Mac OS X 10.7, expected in 2011, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes.Join the conversa…
- 8 Villains of Social Media
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalSocial Media Marketing sure isn’t easy. It takes time to get to know the space you’re in, to network with like minded users, and to develop a strong content strategy that works within your niche and ta…
- Apple Now Stores and Shares Your iPhone’s Location
Published: June 21, 2010Source: Mashable!Apple’s new privacy policy contains a small new paragraph of big importance: it gives the company license to store “the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device” and share it with �…
- Five Effective DIY Alternatives to Running Air Conditioner [Beat The Heat]
Published: June 21, 2010Source: LifehackerIf you don’t have an air conditioner and can’t take the heat (or you just don’t feel like running yours), here are five DIY ideas to stay cool this summer….
- Updated Research Showing, Yet Again, That Weaker Copyright Has Benefited Culture And Society
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechdirtAlmost exactly a year ago, we wrote about a draft version of a paper from Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas concerning the impact of weaker copyright enforcement on…
- No, We Didn’t Save* Journalism, But We Did Generate A Lot Of Ideas
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechdirtLast week, as you may have heard, we held out Techdirt Saves* Journalism event. It was actually quite a lot of fun, even if we didn’t “save” journalism. JD Lasica, for PBS’s MediaShift, wrote up a fantastic s…
- Quora’s Highly Praised Q&A Service Launches To The Public (And The Real Test Begins)
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechCrunchQuora, a QA service founded by early Facebook employees that has generated quite a bit of buzz, has launched to the public. The service first made its debut on January 4, 2010, but was previously restricted to…
- Zuckerberg Says Location Features “Soon”, Admits To Using Spotify In The U.S.
Published: June 21, 2010Source: TechCrunchFacebook has been wooing the UK developer and media community over the weekend and today in London. It’s hard to believe that three months ago the social network was being pilloried in the media here for being…




















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