“TwitterTwitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses,” Fortune wrote last week. I hear a similar refrain from the marketers who are part of the MarketingProfs community: They know that they should be engaging online, but they don’t ...
Very often, when I’m engaging people on TwitterTwitter reviews, I think of my undergrad journalism professor, a crusty but kindly man named Charlie Ball. “Class!” Charlie would bark at all of us, and our fingers would collectively pause over the ...
We know plenty about Twitter’s crazy growth rates and mushrooming membership. We know about brands on TwitterTwitter reviews, celebrities on Twitter, politicians on Twitter. We know Twitter apps, hashtags, trends, tools, tips and tricks. But we ...
So the company I work for, MarketingProfs, is a virtual company, which means that the 25 or so of us on staff are scattered throughout the country, working out of our respective homes. In a practical sense, this means we can shuffle around in our ...
It's Thursday at noon, and I've had no emails from Barack Obama or his team - except for a brief "we made history" announcement -... ...
When you are prone to measuring yourself against others, like I am, and when you both work and live out chunks of your life online, as I do, the Internet can be a bitch. It's easy to get caught up in measuring your impact online, and to suspect that ...
Last week I signed on for the Comcast triple play, which brought our triumvirate of phone-internet-TV under Comcast's wing. It also simultaneously catapulted us back to the Land of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders), a place from which we had reluctantly ...
The bailout of Bear Stearns could be the first of a wave of financial lifeboats. US housing is overpriced. Retail sales are in the dumps. And the consumer spending spree that fluffed up the economy for a few years? Done. In fact, previous recessions ...
If April is the cruelest month, March has to be the strangest. At least, this March: What a strange few weeks it's been. Silda Spitzer stands by Eliot; Gilligan's Mary Ann is a stoner. Then, last night, as I was watching my daughter thumb through a new ...
TomTom, if you don't know, is a portable GPS navigation system. It mounts on the car dashboard, and its voice commands guide you to your destination. For someone like me--I get lost finding my way back to the table after a visit to the restaurant ...
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