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Mindful of social media
Feb 25, 2011 | Self
Lori Deschene of TinyBuddha has a fantastic post on 10 Mindful Ways to Use Social Media at Tricycle. It's hard to pick just one to share but if I have to... If you propose to tweet, always ask yourself: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? Sometimes we post...
Two tweaks for your e-mail vendetta auto-responder
Feb 25, 2011 | Productivity
Yesterday I set up a vacation responder as part of my e-mail vendetta. If you're thinking of doing the same, you might note a couple of tweaks: I forward multiple e-mail addresses to a single Gmail account. But Gmail's vacation responder doesn't do a good job of...
Don’t try this at home: Implementing the e-mail vendetta
Feb 24, 2011 | Productivity, The Harvard Business Review
Today I declared war on e-mail. Well, not all e-mail: just the tyrannical assumption that we should all reply to every single message we reply. In a blog post for the Harvard Business Review, I called for a vendetta on the mandatory universal reply. That means...
Tied to technology
Feb 23, 2011 | Self
My latest toy is an iPod nano watch. It's just a plain old iPod nano, but it slides onto a watch strap specially designed to watch-ify it. I loved it for being red and iSomething and tiny but even so I wasn't particularly sure that it was a wise (read: financially...
Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson
Feb 22, 2011 | Community, The Harvard Business Review
Milions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://bit.ly/KCairo…
Could you imagine life without Facebook?
Feb 21, 2011 | Community
Progressive Media Concepts recently posted an interesting question: What Would You Do If Facebook Shut Down Tomorrow? One I recovered from my blackout (it's my body's automatic self-defense mechanism when faced with the unthinkable) I read on, curious to hear PWC's...
Social media for the 28th day: 9 tech tips for easier periods
Feb 14, 2011 | Lifestyle, Top Posts of 2011: Personal
Today's post is a special for my female readers. Gentlemen, please avert your browsers as I'm about to discuss icky girl things that would constitute a betray of my gender if you all keep reading. Ladies, now that it's just us, let's talk about how to optimize your...
There are motherf&!#ing blogs on the motherf&!#ing plane!
Feb 10, 2011 | Lifestyle
About an hour ago I tweeted the following: Desperately trying to think of a tweet that makes it clear I'm tweeting from the plane, w/out making it sound like that's the point. The responses to this tweet were so fantastic that I just have to round them up:...
Mac users, meet your menu bar
Feb 9, 2011 | Productivity, Toolbox
Can you recognize the signs of SMBB? Selective Menu Bar Blindness affects millions of Mac users, but has yet to be widely recognized as a chronic and debilitating condition. Patient X -- let's call her "Shmalexandra" -- was treated for a classic presentation of the...
Silence the voice of your inner blogging critic
Feb 8, 2011 | Internet tunes, Self
On especially bad days this is what the voice in my head says: [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/9856414" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=ff7700" width="100%" height="81" ] But here's the good news: there's nothing like hearing your...