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Don’t try this at home: Implementing the e-mail vendetta
Today I declared war on e-mail. Well, not all e-mail: just the tyrannical assumption that we should all reply to every single message we reply. In a blog post for the Harvard Business Review, I called for a vendetta on the mandatory universal reply. That means...
Tied to technology
My latest toy is an iPod nano watch. It's just a plain old iPod nano, but it slides onto a watch strap specially designed to watch-ify it. I loved it for being red and iSomething and tiny but even so I wasn't particularly sure that it was a wise (read: financially...
Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson
Milions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo…
Could you imagine life without Facebook?
Progressive Media Concepts recently posted an interesting question: What Would You Do If Facebook Shut Down Tomorrow? One I recovered from my blackout (it's my body's automatic self-defense mechanism when faced with the unthinkable) I read on, curious to hear PWC's...
Internet tunes: Craiglist Hookup – Missed Connections
Kate Allen has a great article in yesterday's Toronto Star about the phenomenon that is Craigslist's Missed Connections. It features the true story of a couple who met through MC two years ago...so yes, you can find love that way. Kate interviewed me for the story,...
Social media for the 28th day: 9 tech tips for easier periods
Today's post is a special for my female readers. Gentlemen, please avert your browsers as I'm about to discuss icky girl things that would constitute a betray of my gender if you all keep reading. Ladies, now that it's just us, let's talk about how to optimize your...
There are motherf&!#ing blogs on the motherf&!#ing plane!
About an hour ago I tweeted the following: Desperately trying to think of a tweet that makes it clear I'm tweeting from the plane, w/out making it sound like that's the point. The responses to this tweet were so fantastic that I just have to round them up:...
Mac users, meet your menu bar
Can you recognize the signs of SMBB? Selective Menu Bar Blindness affects millions of Mac users, but has yet to be widely recognized as a chronic and debilitating condition. Patient X -- let's call her "Shmalexandra" -- was treated for a classic presentation of the...
Silence the voice of your inner blogging critic
On especially bad days this is what the voice in my head says: [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/9856414" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=ff7700" width="100%" height="81" ] But here's the good news: there's nothing like hearing your...
15 resources to accelerate your social media learning
I just got back from a fantastic day at the 20th annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference at Harvard Business School. What an incredible event! If the students who organized it weren't going to be busy running the world's next generation of startups, non-profits...