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10 social media travel tools
Mar 6, 2009 | Career, Top Career Posts, The Harvard Business Review
This blog post originally appeared on the Harvard Business Review. Travel budgets are under serious pressure right now. Trips that were once approved via rubber stamp now must pass through the Politburo Standing Committee to get a green light. Thankfully, a host of...
Social media tips for business travel, today in Harvard Business online
Mar 6, 2009 | Productivity, The Harvard Business Review
Today, Harvard Business online has published my top tips for using social media to get the most out of business travel.
Enrich your content with Zemanta
Feb 28, 2009 | Social Signal, Toolbox, Productivity
I’m writing this blog post with the assistance of Zemanta, a web service that claims to enrich your blog posts and emails by inserting links, related pictures, articles and tags.
Wanted: Universal connector service for all my friends and social networks
Feb 27, 2009 | Community
Rather than importing and updating my contact list on each individual network, I want a universal connector service. I’m envisioning a single dashboard, based on my core set of contacts — in my case, probably my Gmail contact list.
Twitter monitoring to strengthen your team
Feb 26, 2009 | Social Signal, Relationships
When, how and why you might find it useful to track the Twitter feeds of specific colleagues in a focused way.
Responding to online criticism
Feb 24, 2009 | Social Signal
Will Aldrich responded today to my post about my experience with TripIt’s social invitation process, and his response is a model of how to handle online criticism.
Social network invitations: Rules for services and users
Feb 22, 2009 | Community, Top Posts for Community Managers
My experience spamming my address book with a social network invitation inspired this run-down of how to set up network invites that avoid the spam trap.
Rob’s Northern Voice keynote
Feb 21, 2009 | Social Signal
If you've ever wondered whether social media is funny, check out the reaction to Rob's Teh Funny Northern Voice keynote. The Twitter backchannel is reprinted in text below. These tweets are in chronological order, so you can follow the thread of the conversation. In...
Why online conversation matters
Feb 13, 2009 | Community, How to build community online
Why online conversation holds the key to social, political and community change.
NIche messaging with social media: going for the Golden Graham
Feb 9, 2009 | Classics
The Golden Graham Effect is what happens when a product or service achieves a consistent and coherent brand, despite offering different benefits to different audiences. Today, social media doesn’t just offer the opportunity for niche messaging. It introduces the informational equivalent of nutritional labeling for every product, and every service on the market.