Note, I first wrote this post for The Next Web, and it appeared here: Whenever I create a PowerPoint, I think about Star Wars. I’m a geek who grew up on the George Lucas trilogy, so yes, there’s probably some procrastination going on there. But thinking about Star Wars is an incredibly productive way for[…]
Looking at the following facebook page – basically waiting up late tonight so that I can give my facebook page a custom URL. The username needs to be 5 plus characters, or I’d be in competition with my boss for facebook.com/seth. But the fascinating thing to me, is how the facebook PR team took a[…]
Lately there’s been a lot of hullabaloo on whether newspapers can rescue their dying print divisions by erecting subscription barriers to their online visions. Will readers subscribe? How much does the reader value the journalistic integrity of these publications over their blogging brethren, and will that be enough to support the massive editorial departments they[…]
Usually it’s along the lines of – “I can’t understand why anyone would want to (tweet / post on facebook / join a linkedin grou). What a waste of time. I hear this a lot – and I can’t say as I blame the people who are saying it – from the outside these social[…]
I came to a realization recently while I was working on a project for Conductor on the natural search visibility of the Fortune 500 – All marketers should learn and use mySQL. Ok, not all of them. There are a certainly marketers who don’t regularly deal with lots of data – whether that’s leads, or[…]
I got this Direct Message about 9 hours after I followed someone on Twitter recently. Let’s call him “Twidiot,” for short. You’ll see why in a second. I first found Twidiot’s stream when he followed our corporate account, @conductorinc, – and when we followed him back, we received a personal response. “Thanks for following![…]
