Yikes. I never thought that managing multiple Twitter accounts would be so hectic. I have little boxes jumping all over my screen. It’s quite distracting. Jumping back and forth between different types of information is a bit intense, but it’s also been fun. I’ve made myself a guinea pig and have started trying out different […]
In my escapades as chief tweeter for The Pet Wiki, I’ve had a pretty conservative view of who should be followed. I still think that it’s correct for small individuals not to follow everyone, but for larger companies, it’s important to have a wider view of whom to follow. This past Thursday, Nutro cat food […]
I, like many other Americans, have been enjoying my weekly fix of American Idol. I live in Israel, so I usually don’t get to see it until Saturday night. I usually try not to know what’s going on until Saturday night, but this time I couldn’t help myself. Besides, being on both Facebook and Twitter, […]
Some will say there’s only one don’t to performance evaluations — don’t do them. Tom Peters said it takes the average employee six months to recover, and that performance evaluations are the worst things manager do. I think he’s exaggerating — I’ve done much worse things. But I accept much of his point — it’s […]
Information Week called it Yahoo Aims To Redefine What It Means To Search. Yahoo! called their press briefing Yahoo’s “End of the 10 Blue Links” Talk. Color me underwhelmed. Prabhakar Raghavan, their head of search strategy announced that Yahoo! will be “divining user intent.” Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, it was in […]
I’ve been having fun with all the twitter coverage that @sockington the cat has. Yesterday I listened to a pod cast with Socks’ (the cat’s real name) owner, Jason Scott. He’s cool. Jason knows why Socks is so popular. Socks (and Jason) were early Twitter adopters to Twitter. Jason mentioned that his cat tweeted in […]
Twitter CEO Biz Stone (great name) is the latest to play the we don’t need no stinkin’ ads game. “There are a few reasons why we’re not pursuing advertising — one is it’s just not quite as interesting to us” — Twitter CEO Biz Stone, Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue I love that. […]
I straddle two worlds. I play with The Pet Wiki in my world of pet friends and play in the world of SEO and social media for my professional life. I think that I have a unique perspective on both sides of the coin. I have been a follower of @sockington since the first #pawpawty (see […]
I found this hysterical: It made me think of the Product Management implications. Star Trek was saved by a small community of die-hard fans. They have conferences. Some write books extending the series. Others spend endless hours learning fictional languages. This is a legendary, passionate community, without whom Star Trek would never have made it […]
“Pickle Makers probably think pickle-making makes the world go round.” — George Will It’s human nature to appreciate ourselves and our contributions far more than we appreciate others. I know how difficult and important what I do is, but why do we need so many people in finance? Or engineering? OK, maybe it’s time consuming, […]