“Social Networking” collection
May 6, 2010
“Lose The Laptop” in 140 Characters or Less!
The next AT&T Lose The Laptop Challenge is upon me and it is all about Social Media. #LoseTheLaptop [99] For my first article for the Challenge, I’m going to try something different, use only 140 or fewer characters at a time. [121] While this 140 character requirement is only for Twitter, it actually can help a person’s writing become clearer…
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March 22, 2010
“Tracking, Texting & Texas” with Cast of Dads Podcast – Episode #13
It’s seems like we at Cast of Dads are always talking about social media and parenting and how at times they are mutually exclusive. Part of my day job is to actually be doing a lot of marketing on various social sites. And, in fact, all of us dads on the Cast of Dads are pretty active within social networking.…
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February 23, 2010
Cast of Dads: Podcast #10 – “Kids Online & How To Do It Right”
In this tenth episode of the Cast of Dads podcast we discussed a very important topic that all parents should seriously be considering, that of educating your children about the various social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. This is particularly personal to me as my oldest daughter (a "tweenager" – pre-teen) is starting to ask more about various social…
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February 9, 2010
Special Thanks to Life360.com for the Blogger Spotlight & a Critical Family Service!
Life360 is a site that deals with ensuring the safety of your family and protecting your assets (people & property). Obviously, this is something very important to me and my wife so as a service on its own, it definitely deserves a thorough discussion. However, in this case, I wanted to mention something else: one of their editors contacted me…
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February 2, 2010
Cast of Dads: Podcast #7 – “We Were ALL Morons!”
We got some great user feedback on some of our previous podcasts that we were geeking out a bit too much. Since we listen to our audience, in this episode, we tried to eliminate most (if not all) of the tech and focus more on being a dad and a parent. Episode #7 of the Cast of Dads podcast is…
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October 22, 2009
How to Pre-Populate Twitter Status Updates Via Links
We all know that getting information out via Twitter is helpful to your brand or company, but what if you want to have your website or blog readers do it for you? Or perhaps you want to get a standard message out or include a keyword or two through the use of hashtags (#). NOTE: As of May 2011, this…
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“Don’t Forget Your Day Job”
Note: I wrote this article for AddictedToSocialMedia.com (A2SM), an online blog that talks about how to get the most out of Social Media as a whole. A2SM has a series of luminaries writing for them and sharing insight on how to best use Social Media and how they use it. I was honored to be asked to contribute to their…
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May 11, 2009
HighTechDad – “I Am A Geek!” & Proud Of It!
My friend, Brian Solis, pointed me to the "Society for Geek Advancement" today, something which rings true to many of my thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Being a "geek" now is much different than when I was younger. Years ago, having a "geek" badge was something that was almost shameful, and people were ostracized because of it. Now, all of us…
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May 11, 2009
Crafting Your Company’s Social Media Policy
A few weeks ago, I offered to help our Human Resources department create a "Social Media Policy" for my company. While my company didn't want to impose draconian restrictions on Social Media, HR felt that some rules did have to be created for the good of both the employer and employee. Our head of HR and I spent some time…
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April 20, 2009
Twitter Threats and Negotiations
The Age of Twitter is upon us. All hail the all mighty and powerful Twitter! But also, the age of innocence is gone. There are spammers galore, people who are "social media experts" who have only 8 tweets to their name, and really attractive and scantily clad women who earned $1500 in just 1 day of work. Wonder how they…
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January 21, 2009
Twitter Begins to Overshadow Digg and Rightfully So!
We all know about the site Digg, right? It is a place "to discover and share content." Somebody (or you) submits an article or video or news item into the Digg "community" and if people like it, they increase the story's popularity by clicking on a "Digg button" which increments a counter. The higher the count of people liking it,…
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December 11, 2007
New Job: Technology Evangelist for ServePath
It has been a few weeks since my last post and quite a lot has happened with my professional career. First through, apologies to my regular readers for not having posted anything as of late. Hopefully I can return to this soon. However, for those interested, the company that I have joined, ServePath, has chosen me to help them navigate…
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