Setting up iPhone to Sync with a Google Account

Posted by on Jan 5, 2012 | No Comments
Setting up iPhone to Sync with a Google Account

When you set up your iPhone with a Google Apps account, it’s best to set it up as an Exchange account and NOT a gmail account as Google tells you in the set up.  For whatever reason, they don’t tell you this in the account settings page.  Here’s the link on how to properly set ...

3 Reasons Why Your Website Should be Like an Online Dating Website

Posted by on Apr 15, 2011 | No Comments
3 Reasons Why Your Website Should be Like an Online Dating Website

In the last 15+ years, I’ve worked with more than 400 clients on more interactive projects and websites than I think I can count anymore (including a couple online dating sites).  The result of all of this work is that I’ve come to realize that websites really fall under one main model, and that is ...

Understanding How to Change Your Feeds in Feedburner

Posted by on Apr 6, 2011 | No Comments
Understanding How to Change Your Feeds in Feedburner

Recently I launched a new site for a client and needed to change 5 exiting feeds to new RSS feed addresses.  I searched a long time on the Google Feedburner docs looking for some information and confirmation and couldn’t find exactly what I needed.  There were 3 questions I had: How do I change the ...

List Posts: the Good, the Bad and the Irony.

Posted by on Feb 25, 2011 | No Comments
List Posts: the Good, the Bad and the Irony.

Or maybe I should call this “1 thing I noticed that made me laugh about list posts since mostly they’re overused except for David Letterman and what you should do instead.” I noticed this article in my Daily Smart Brief for Social Media email today about the over use of the List Post format in ...

One of the Strangest Twitter Follow Notifications Ever

Posted by on Aug 14, 2010 | No Comments
One of the Strangest Twitter Follow Notifications Ever

A short bit ago, I received the typical twitter email announcing that someone had followed me.  It was quite strange as you can see… Fortunately, Someone I work with, @paulknipe, translated this for me: “Have you heard the news that I have a Twitter page? I highly encourage you to follow me right away. Click ...

Friday’s Browser Tab Summary of Cool, Interactive (mostly) Links

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 | No Comments
Friday’s Browser Tab Summary of Cool, Interactive (mostly) Links

I regularly find myself with way too many tabs open of good, interesting articles I find via email, twitter, facebook, and you know, all the Social Media avenues that everyone knows about.  It really slows my browser down to have so many windows open (more than what I’m listing below).   I don’t want to lose ...

Watch Out for Twitter Spam!

Posted by on Jun 6, 2010 | No Comments
Watch Out for Twitter Spam!

This is an interesting spam email I received yesterday that looked like it was from Twitter. But, upon further examination, and something everyone should do BEFORE you click a link, is to hover over the link and see what appears.  You just might learn something the easy way. Remember, always be careful what links you ...

BP Oil leak live feed

Posted by on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
BP Oil leak live feed

You’ll probably need to download the silverlight plug-in for this, but it’s interesting in a not so fun sort of way… Or to see it on the BP site, go here: NOTE: Please be aware, this is a live stream and may freeze or be unavailable from time to time.

14 tips for writing your tweets or blogs.

Posted by on Jun 1, 2009 | No Comments

Like many people, sometimes I get writer’s block.  But it’s odd, because I’m not really a writer, I just sometimes have lots to say but not always sure how to go about it. Recently, I came across this interesting article with 13 Tips for Actually Getting Some Writing Done. The article is technically for people ...

Teaching Business Ethics and Honesty

Posted by on Jun 1, 2009 | No Comments

Recently, in Time Magazine, there was an article about The Future of Work.  In it was an section about Training Managers to Behave by starting in business school.   A small business school out side of Phoenix, Thunderbird School of Global Management, has taken the tact of an Oath of Honor upon graduation.  With the assumption ...