Archive for October, 2009
Posted on October 29, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter | Tags: is twitter broken, is twitter down, Twitter, twitter fail whale, Twitter is down, twitter out of service, twitter outage, web site service outage, web site wil not load, website service outage |
The last couple of weeks have been extra busy for Twitter. Its temporary outage message, a.k.a. the “fail whale” has gotten a workout. This past Tuesday morning when I tried to get on Twitter, to no avail, the fail whale was nowhere in sight. All I got in my Firefox browser was a spinning icon [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: Business Strategy, Social Media | Tags: Business Strategy, communications, Communications Strategy, email, Google, Google Wave, innovation, innovations, launch new product with a bang, limited preview, marketing, new product launch, new product rollout, online collaboration, photo sharing, PR stunt, product launch, product roll-out, promotion, public relations, public relations strategy, Social Media, social network, social networking |
How do you ensure a product still in development catches fire come launch-time? Keep things largely under wraps, while simultaneously spilling a bunch of the beans. A neat trick that takes finesse to pull off; one recent example is the rollout of Google Wave. Limiting who gets to test drive Not quite ready for prime [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009. Filed under: Best practices, Social Media | Tags: ban social media, blogging, blogs, business policy, conflict of interest, corporate social media policy, employee policy, Facebook, fear of social media, guidelines, MySpace, prohibit on the job, reputation management, Social Media, social media ban, social media best practices, social media risk, social media training, Social Networks, Twitter |
Did you know more companies are banning employees from using social networks while on the job? Oh, really? Not one tweet, or a single Facebook comment all the live-long workday? Surely some folks will go into withdrawal. That stuff is addictive, you know. Meantime, Iran tried to ban use of social media, and that didn’t [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized, Web User Experience | Tags: BalletX, business web site, content strategy, good to great, good web design, good web sites, good websites, human computer interaction, Matthew Prescott, site design, user experience, user interface design, ux, web content strategy, Web Design, web site, web site design, web site organization, web style, web usability, website design |
What’s the difference between a good website and a great one? It can be a fine line, but one you want to cross. Recently, when discussing this very topic, I used ballet as a point of comparison. Yes, ballet can relate to website strategy. Here’s how: Shiny dancer Earlier this year I went to a [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2009. Filed under: Blogs/Blogging | Tags: advice, best blogs, blog, blog marketing, blog promotion, blog strategy, blog tips, blog tools, blog video, blogging, blogging web site, blogs, Copyblogger, copywriting, Daily Blog Tips, great copy, how to market a blog, how to write a headline, how-to, influential blogs, make money with blog, online conversation, ProBlogger, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, successful blogging, The Blogger's Bulletin, web analytics, web copy, writing |
Have you noticed how many blogs are about blogging? Clearly, the blogging community embraces the rule of thumb to write about what you know. The upshot is; if you’re a blogger, or want to become one, there’s a plethora of free resources available on the web. Here are four sites that I find useful: Copyblogger [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009. Filed under: Business Strategy, Commentary | Tags: business innovation, creativity, enterprise planning, failure leads to success, failure quotes, failures, fear of failure, fear of failure anxiety, innovation, innovation leadership, innovations, managing innovation, overcome failure, product innovation, research and development, Steve Jobs, success, success factors, Thomas Edison, Woody Allen |
Would you attend a talk titled How and Why I Failed? Many of us are programmed to shirk that one off without a thought. We want to learn how to succeed. What about a panel on failure? A person on a panel I attended at the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009 suggested the event [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009. Filed under: Communications Strategy, Social Media | Tags: business, communication, free, Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009, HARO, Help A Reporter Out, innovation, Innovation Philadelphia, marketing, Peter Shankman, Poken, PR, PR stunt, presentation technique, public relations, relevant, selling through social media, Social Media, Social Networks, Strategic Communications, transparency, trust agent |
If you’re giving a presentation and want the audience to hang on your every word here’s a tip: Announce you’ll give away free stuff to people who answer questions correctly during your talk. Trust me, it works like a charm. I saw it in action during Peter Shankman’s keynote address at the Global Creative Economy [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: Communications Strategy, Events | Tags: Cool Cities, creative cities, creative spark, Elizabeth Gilbert, entrepreneurship, Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009, ideation, innovation, inspiration, marketing trends, mobile marketing, Mobile Technology, mobile web design, Peter Kageyama, productive conflict, Randall Kempner, value creation |
This same time last year our nation was reeling from a financial system in freefall. We’re still in recovery mode, however, if necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the situation will ultimately spur a windfall of ingenuity. Such was the spirit of the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009, held earlier this week [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009. Filed under: Events | Tags: changing workforce, conference, creative economy, Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009, Global Summit, ideas, innovation, Innovation Philadelphia, John Howkins, new economic model, power of invention, sustainability, the future of cities, what's next |
Whenever I hear the word “summit” in reference to a meeting or conference my mind harkens back to a childhood memory. A Cold War event This particular Summit — that occurred in my hometown of Glassboro, New Jersey — brought together President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin. The Summit was intended [...]
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Why Failure Is Good For You
Posted on October 12, 2009. Filed under: Business Strategy, Commentary | Tags: business innovation, creativity, enterprise planning, failure leads to success, failure quotes, failures, fear of failure, fear of failure anxiety, innovation, innovation leadership, innovations, managing innovation, overcome failure, product innovation, research and development, Steve Jobs, success, success factors, Thomas Edison, Woody Allen |
Would you attend a talk titled How and Why I Failed? Many of us are programmed to shirk that one off without a thought. We want to learn how to succeed. What about a panel on failure? A person on a panel I attended at the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit 2009 suggested the event [...]
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