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Entries from September 25th, 2009

Nice Update from TweetDeck

September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology

My PC now sports a nice update from TweetDeck. It’s smart enough to shorten URLs automatically, and supports drag-and-drop of photos to Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. Nice time-saving features…

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Why Don’t They Listen to Their Customers?

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Back to Basics, Tools & Technology

The idea of phone companies listening to their customers is perhaps an oxymoron, but I haven’t given up hope. Browsing Verizon’s list of supported cell phones, I was struck by their obvious lack of needs-based segmentation. Like most carriers, they seem

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A Perfect Twitter Moment — Not!

September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Back to Basics

Despite having an iPhone app for tweeting, my perfect Twitter moment eluded me. On the day I was dying to answer TweetDeck’s “what are you doing” question, I wasn’t carrying an iPhone. Several Sundays ago my husband and I were kayaking in the golden light of a late afternoon on Cape Cod waters. Suddenly our [...]

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Social Media Fatigue – Unless the Community Is Real

September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Creativity

Yes, I confess to suffering social media fatigue this summer. I went into stealth mode on Twitter and hardly blogged at all. (And to be honest, I didn’t miss it!) Instead I spent loads of time online with my family collaborating via Basecamp, a “closed community.” We shared memories, photos, laughs and tears as we [...]

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