Archive for May, 2009
Sometimes, words should be more than “content”
I’ve never considered myself much of a poetry fan. Poetry has always been sort of a “gee, that’s pretty” distraction that I acknowledge occasionally. I’m usually too caught up with the “content, content, content” mantra of online marketing. I haven’t had time to even read a fun book lately. An editor friend of mine, Faye [...]
May 23, 2009
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Tags: content, poetry, words · Posted in: writing
Unfriending on Facebook
It began innocently enough. A friend request on Facebook. I saw we had some friends in common, though I didn’t know this person. Why not? I thought, and hit the button to confirm them as a friend. Then it started. The constant requests to join groups. The multiple invitations to events. The barrage of emails. [...]
May 18, 2009
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Tags: Facebook, marketing, social marketing, unfriending · Posted in: marketing, social networking
Reduce your “information overload:” unsubscribe
When I was in library school in the early ’90 – very pre-web-2.0 – one of my favorite books was Richard Wurman’s Information Anxiety. Wurman talked about the need to organize and filter the amount of information we get every day. Even back in the dark ages – 1991 – we were bombarded with images, [...]
May 11, 2009
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Tags: ezines, information anxiety, information overload · Posted in: Uncategorized, blogging, marketing
