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Fauxcrastination

January 13, 2010

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You’ve all heard the phrase “tilting at windmills”. It refers to the tale of Don Quixote, a fictional knight that — among other things — confused ordinary windmills for ferocious giants. The resulting “battle” with such a creature is rather one-sided [...]

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My future can beat up your present

January 12, 2010

In the great rush to take advantage of all the new possibilities the web offers, we often fail to reach beyond the familiar. Our “strategic thinking” looks more replicative than revolutionary. Consider how many of these failed technologies you’ve seen:

A “virtual counter person” greeting visitors of a retail site.
Web visitors do not want the same [...]

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It’s OK to make money with social media

January 2, 2010

If your company gets involved in social media this year, will you make money from it? If not… don’t bother.
Yes, I realize that your customers want you to get involved with social media. Many of them would also like you to give away free beer, but you probably don’t do that.
Yes, it’s true that your [...]

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Using word clouds as reader and author

December 25, 2009

I’m a rather verbose person by nature. As a kid, I never worried much about having a 500 word report prepared by the end of the week. I usually had it done by the end of the period.
When I wrote Podcasting For Dummies, I had to learn to curtail much of that. That’s a [...]

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