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Is eMail Dying and Being Replaced by Social Media?

Published in July 29th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business trends, Communications, Social media, Technology
2 Comments

My kids hardly use eMail any more. It true. I was surprised when I learned this the other day. It is not that they don’t use the computer to communicate – far from it. They use Facebook and Twitter extensively. Both Facebook and Twitter allow you communicate both publicly and privately. They can involve [...]

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Does Your Face Help or Hurt Trust in Your Business?

Published in July 24th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business Strategy, Communications
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I was listening to Science Friday on National Public Radio today and they had an interesting segment on trust. The whole thing was inspired by the death of Walter Cronkite and that he apparently was a figure that inspired a high degree of trust. The host and guests were discussing why some people are more [...]

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Web Based Conferencing Tool a Steal!

Published in July 20th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Internet, Technology
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Since January I have been using a web based conferencing tool called Cool Conference Live and I have been very pleased with it. What is more, it costs less than $50 a year to use.You can try it out for free but your participants will see ads. Much better is to spend the $50 which [...]

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Help us Pick a New Logo!

Published in July 13th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Communications
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I am helping a client to decide which of three potential logos they would like to use for their remodeling business. Would you take 5 minutes and answer a short survey? You will be asked to rate the three logos on a few different attributes and then pick your favorite. It is fast and we’d [...]

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Twitter as a Brand Building Tool

Published in July 13th, 2009
Posted by Michael in Business tools, Social media, Uncategorized
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I came across a very interesting blog entry from Guy Kawasaki about:

how he uses Twitter
his favorite Twitter tools
techniques and
the use of ghost writters – yes ghost writters.

What was most interesting however, was his approach is to using Twitter as a live broadcast medium. He uses a team of 4 ghost writers as [...]

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