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Tips for a successful Facebook application launch
Mar 10, 2009 | Social Signal, Career
Contests are one way to get your Facebook app off to a strong start — but there are other options.
Using B2C social media for B2B marketing
Mar 9, 2009 | Social Signal
Think of your social media presence as a party: you’re inviting lots of pretty people (the end customers), who in turn will bring in lots of smart/rich people (your customers).
Three steps for companies getting started with social media
Mar 9, 2009 | Social Signal, Career
Listen. Think. Engage. These are the three steps every company should follow.
10 steps to get your e-mail inbox to zero every day
Mar 8, 2009 | Productivity
Learn the simple system I used to get from an inbox of over 2000 messages to an empty inbox — and to keep it there.
How I got to inbox zero
Mar 8, 2009 | Toolbox, Productivity, Social Signal
Just ten days ago, I really did have more than thirteen hundred unread messages in my inbox. But today is the eighth day of my new zero inbox lifestyle, and it’s starting to feel like it’s going to stick. I share the secret here.
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.