February 2012
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“[A] hidden part of the analysis, after you’ve found The Thing, is to...”
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“[Y]our basic preteen gamer says camping is breaking the rules. Well, you know...”
– Rick Paulas, Wired
“Can you export this video to viral?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
January 2012
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“May I have a review of the bidding—with the original rhythm and inflections?”
– George Kaufman
December 2011
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Problems Hinder EMV Use in US →
The metric system. International currency integration. Topless women in newspapers. These are just a few European standards that Americans typically want no part of. Another is EMV technology. Whereas Europe — and pretty much the rest of the world — uses smartchip-enabled “EMV” credit cards, the US continues to cling to the magnetic “swipe-the-stripe” cards...
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RIP Vaclav Havel. →
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Hypothetical Question
If I happened to be eagerly awaiting the next time the company that makes Blackberries undergoes layoffs or fires a senior executive just so I can make “RIM job” jokes, would that make me a horrible person?
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Phrase of the Day
“SEO-optimized diahrrea of words” - Alex Schleber Context: Discussing potentially revolutionary BS-cutting search app Summly (which I just wrote about here for Internet Evolution)
“Well, actually, I’ve come around on hipsters. Takes a lot of guts to all...”
– Homer Simpson
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“If HP knew what HP knows we would be three times more profitable.”
– Lew Platt, Former CEO of HP
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Establishing Social Media Policies →
Today at 2pm, I am presenting a Webinar on the legal and brand management aspects of developing and implementing an effective, compliant social media policy for your organization. The Webinar will be accompanied by a live, interactive chat, which I will join for Q&A after the presentation. Please join me during that time at Internet Evolution and/or please share the link...
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Don't Feed the Trolls: Teen's Tweet a Lesson in... →
Recent piece by me on Internet Evolution. Media relations consultant David Bloom sums it up nicely below. (To be precise, however, Brownback’s staff did not contact the school directly; they contacted the Youth in Government program, which in turn contacted the school.) dbloom:
Solid piece on the perils of corporate/political overreacting to criticism on the Interwebs. Sam Brownback’s...
November 2011
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Lowest Common Denominator Social Media
A Facebook discussion about social media consulting clients preferring bland and cheap over unique and effective has me inspired to implement a new business model. I’ve decided to offer an alternative “economy” package for my consulting clients — doing the safest, cheapest, least effective, most typical, most boring crap you see in the social space. For a few hundred...
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“What we do is far more predictive than what we say we’re going to do.”
– Olivia Parr-Rud, Business Intelligence Consultant
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An Apple Conference Room. 1980s. Steve Jobs and...
Steve Jobs: You’re ripping us off! I trusted you, and now you’re stealing from us!
Bill Gates: Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
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“Relax, people. It’s just a little cancer!”
– The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, apparently
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Confession
I judge my Facebook friends by the music they listen to on Spotify. That is, when I’ve actually heard of the artist. You don’t have to be hip to be a music snob.
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Analogy
Marketing is getting your date to come back to your place. Sales is what happens next. PR is what your date tells their friends about what happened. CRM is when you call your date later in the week.
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“[T]he holodeck will be society’s last invention.”
– Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
btwsocial asked: re: obsolete . What do you think is the next big thing in communication or marketing? Would love to hear your views.
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Confession
I’m so entrenched in the social media world that sometimes, in conversations about social networks, I’m mildly surprised when someone doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Then I realize I’m the weird one.
October 2011
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Confession
Sometimes when I tear sheets of toilet paper off of the roll and use them, I feel bad for separating them from their family.
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Boo.
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“I would never have made it to where I am today without Klout.”
– Justin Bieber, never
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Right now, my Facebook feed has too many pictures of people in Halloween costumes and not enough pictures of pets in Halloween costumes.
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For some reason, quiet, sunny, windy Sundays can be vaguely comforting when I’m inside. It’s like the world is letting me know, “Hey, guy. Relax. Everything’s fine.”
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Lindsay Lohan Drinking Game
Here’s how you play: On your turn, you pick something that you have done or has happened to you fewer times than Lindsay Lohan has gone to jail. Anyone at the table who has done that thing or had that thing happen to them more times than Lindsay Lohan has gone to jail has to drink. If nobody has done that thing or had that thing happen to them more times than Lindsay Lohan has gone to jail,...
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“My father would beat me if I acted like that. but that’s child abuse these...”
– Actual Facebook comment
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Unclear on the Concept →
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“[Michele] Bachmann…announced that Obama ‘put us in Libya. He’s now...”
– Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri, recapping the October 18 Republican debate
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You know you’re old when your friends start having kids on purpose. (stolen from the Internet)
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Web Teaches Daily Mail a Hard News Lesson →
New by me on Internet Evolution:
The Daily Mail jumped the gun on the Amanda Knox news with a story that wasn’t just wrong, but fabricated. The incorrect article was replaced less than an hour later on the Mail’s website, but thanks to the viral nature of the Internet, the Daily Mail accidentally has done permanent brand damage to itself.
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“So what can I look at that kind of looks like boobs?”
– 13-year-old boys before the Internet
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs
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I just started allowing subscribers on Facebook. Subscribe to me here!
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“Above all else, never argue about what an argument is about.
…If your...”
– John Barnes, author (source: comment to my recent article, What (Not) to Do When Your Brand Is Attacked)
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She: Why don't you listen to me?
Me: Why don't you listen to *me*?
She: Because I'm right.
September 2011
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Top Office Pet Peeves →
Least Surprising Fact of the Day Award: “62 percent of U.S. women were bothered by ‘clothing that’s too revealing for the workplace,’ while only 29 percent of U.S. men surveyed said that was a problem.”
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Facebook Food for Thought
Speaking as someone who has commented on but not really complained about the recent Facebook update… For all the people who can’t shut up about Facebook’s redesign, the people who can’t shut up about the people who can’t shut up about Facebook’s redesign are so far WAY more annoying. I would respectfully urge my fellow social networkers to — if they must...
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Reed Hastings Sincerely Apologizes
Reed Hastings as a child: Mommy, can I have a cookie? Mother: No, because you threw a tantrum at the grocery store. Reed Hastings: I’m sorry, Mommy. Now can I have a cookie?
(Netflix Apology Heralds More Change & Controversy)
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