Email Etiquette: Six Tips to Dominate Your Inbox
There were quite a few responses to my post last week, I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You. Fittingly, many of them came to me via email. And many were quite good. I've pulled together some of the best ones, with hopes that they might help you (or enrage you!) in your quest for true email etiquette domination. Without further ado... Six Tips for Email Etiquette (from you readers): 1. On … [Continue Reading...]
Email Etiquette: Six Tips to Dominate Your Inbox
There were quite a few responses to my post last week, I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You. Fittingly, many of them came to me via email. And many were quite good. I've pulled together some of the best ones, with hopes that they might help you (or enrage you!) in your quest for true email etiquette domination. Without further ado... Six Tips for Email Etiquette (from you readers): 1. On … [Continue Reading...]
Book Reviews: Little Princes and Trout Fishing in the Yemen
Days have passed, I've read more books. See my ongoing list of the 100 books I'm reading in 2012, and check out their (sometimes) pretty covers on my Pinterest board, cryptically entitled: The 100 Books I'm Reading in 2012. As always, if you've got a book you want me to read/review/spill chai tea on, just drop me a line. And now, for some irreverent book reviews. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of … [Continue Reading...]
How (Not) to Do A Google Plus Hangout
And the technology gods have struck again. Today, I had the fine task in front of me of presenting some work stuff for a small group via a Google Plus hangout. I do not have the best history with Google Plus, but was eager to work with her to put aside our differences so that I could enjoy the magic of the hangout -- supposedly one of the best things going on over at Google Plus these days (I hear). The task -- login to Google Plus -- … [Continue Reading...]
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The T.W.E.E.T. Model at BlogWorld And Elsewhere…
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It’s Blog Action Day!
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Twitter in Africa?
I just wanted to point out a very important Tweet I posted today on Twitter's @Hope140 account. Do you have a great use-case of how Twitter is being used in Africa? We'd love to hear it! … [Continue...]
Rock the Vote on Twitter?
We just posted an interesting guest post by some of the folks at Rock the Vote about what they're doing this year with Twitter, celebs, and -- you guessed it -- voting! Check it out here. … [Continue...]
The Nike CR Report – A Good (Long) Read
I had some great reading material today that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in cause marketing and reading up on what big brands are doing these days. Laura Adams of Nike passed along the Nike CR report. Check it out here. As she advised, "It's certainly not short and sweet... I … [Continue...]
@HardlyNormal at Twitter
This week here at Twitter HQ we were lucky to have Mark Horvath, @hardlynormal, of Invisible People come into Twitter and talk about his work using social media to empower the homeless population in the USA. Mark was finishing up a cross-country bike tour to raise awareness, and joining him in the … [Continue...]
The Biz and Livia Stone Foundation
There's a new philanthropic powerhouse on the block -- or, there will be! Read this post from @biz about what he and his wife Livia are starting. This is so very exciting, and I couldn't be happier to work for such a grade-A guy. There is compound interest in altruism, Biz. … [Continue...]
Social Media Use by Foundation Leaders?
The wonderful Beth Kanter has a great post up about the use of social media by foundation leaders. Note the interesting graph showing exactly what type of "social media" foundation leaders are most likely to use. Spoiler? Newsletters! (We all should have guessed that...) Read the piece here. … [Continue...]
Zuckerberg’s $100 Million Gift — It’s not *just* a donation
This morning I was excited to read on Mashable (right before meeting many of the Mashable folk at a Twitter philanthropic event -- but more on that later) that Mark Zuckerberg's gift is much more than a $100 million donation to the New Jersey public schools. Instead -- he's making the grant in … [Continue...]
