This is Part 1 of 3-part series. See Part 2 here. When people used to ask me for advice on how to go about getting their dream job, I used to look off into the distance and look reflective. Really, I was likely re-calculating the exact age difference between Padma Lakshmi and her [...]
The first rule of Increasing Your Google Page Rank is Not to Talk About Increasing Your Google Page Rank. Let me back up. I have a lot of websites I dabble on/manage/own/open to grin at. I have a passive life goal to increase my google page rank on such sites. Alas, I do absolutely nothing [...]
Maybe you’ve heard the story about how it’s hard to eat an elephant. Although I don’t personally know (not having eaten elephants much in my time), I would imagine as much. Tough meat. Big guy. Etc. Given how hard it is to complete the monumental task, the only way to do it (according to those [...]
So I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I do not believe this is how you make a tea commercial. First, watch: Now, listen. This video comes from my dear friend @amalia, who emailed me this marketing nugget of gold. That provoked a scintillating double-digit long long chain, [...]
In honor of the 5th anniversary of Twitter officially opening its doors to the public (July 15, 2006), Twitter co-founder @biz will be radiating his awesomeness on NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me tomorrow. In response, @mgrooves pointed out the first article ever written about Twitter (then called “Twttr”) published on July 15, 2006 on GigaOm. [...]
I talk a lot about how to tweet. At conferences, in my book, on this blog, and to any and all small, defenseless babies I come across on the street. And for good reason, I must say. If you’re not following me, you really should be. That way, you can study and learn from my [...]
Do you want to learn how to use Twitter? Pick up Twitter for Good and learn to excel on Twitter in 5 steps. Want an overview of the 5 steps? The T.W.E.E.T. framework is a model I developed to best teach you to win on the platform. I teach it to organizations and individuals because [...]
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about pitches. The pitches I get, the pitches I send, and the sad world that is people-wanting-things-from-people-and-not-knowing-how-to-ask. To start, let me say that no discussion of pitch failures would be complete without a shout-out to this amazing video the Mashable folks posted. Entitled, “Hardly Working: Start Up Guys“, I [...]
The rumors are true. I believe that every non-profit can learn a great lesson on Tweeting from Kanye West. Yes, Kanye West. The same man who writes such dynamic, non sequitor musings as: If you have heard me give a training before using the T.W.E.E.T. model explaining how causes and non-profits can best excel on [...]
