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Screen Time or Face Time?

Screen Time or Face Time?

Are you seeing less of your kids these days? According to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that was reported in The New York Times this morning in If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online, the average young American spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — [...]

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Building Online Community

Building Online Community

Building online community is both central and tangential to my work — doing it well is mission critical, but when I hand off a finished product it’s usually my product manager’s or client’s responsibility to take the next step. Still, I get questions and have many myself about what works and what doesn’t, which is [...]

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How to Tweet Like Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki’s twittering puts my occasional chirps to shame and if you follow his tweet-stream, you have to wonder how he has time to do anything else. A few weeks ago the American Express Open Forum for Small Business published an interview with Guy that tips his hand. Here are some of his secrets: Question: [...]

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Identity Crisis?

Identity Crisis?

Ever since embracing social media and being asked to coach my clients on its finer points my starting supposition was  that personal and business, politics and brand identity should be separate. OK, call me old school but as my friend and former townie Lee Wilson writes, “Growing up in New England I was taught that [...]

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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

Oh this is rich. Not. At least that’s what I thought reading the headline How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live on Time.com this morning. Though far from a die-hard devotee I think that of all the Twitteriffic stories in circulation Steven Johnson has nailed it: …as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns [...]

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Twitter Overtakes New York Times, Bests 911

Twitter Overtakes New York Times, Bests 911

Yes, you read the headline correctly. According to comScore and as reported by TechCrunch yesterday, Twitter now has more unique visitors each month than The New York Times and the gap appears to be widening  (click chart for larger view): In February, 2009 Twitter drew less than 10 million monthly unique visitors. [...] Fast-forward to [...]

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Facebook Gets ‘appy

Facebook Gets ‘appy

Now that Apple has proven the model works everyone wants an app store of their own. RIM has added one for Blackberry and now Facebook, who published their API for 3rd party developers months ago, is getting into the ‘appy act. As reported in the Cynopsis Digital newsletter this morning: Like the iPhone in the [...]

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