July 2009
125 posts
RT @clevelanddotcom: GCP gives $100K to put county reform issue b/f voters: http://bit.ly/171sTr (How much did GCP spend on casino ballot?)
Great dinner tonight with @TimGasper and @JimEngland of @CorkShare. More on that tomorrow. I’m whipped and off to bed.
RT @francisablola: 3rd Anniversary Tomorrow. WOW - Time flies! (CONGRATS!)
RT @zenext: @dougcraver social media expert? I’d say so (coming from you means a lot but it is all relative with respect to results)
June 2009
58 posts
Project Management Software, Team Collaboration... →
Design won’t save the world…this ad is dead on. Hope you get a chuckle like I did. http://yfrog.com/0wyrwj
Had to go to their website to get twitter address for @GLBC_Cleveland. Marketers just print your address on ur promo materials.
Wow! I think I can now say I’m a social media EXPERT since I offer such bits of wisdom like print your addresses vs. making peeps find them.
#Dimora is toast in @clevelandplus things may be looking up afterall wonder why our leaders won’t comment? Afraid they mightbe ontaped call?
Pizza at great lakes brewing co not impressed how can u screw up pizza? At least I can drown my sorrows in grass root ale.
RT: @ccarsonthompson Big win for the Plus coming, along with hundreds of jobs. http://tinyurl.com/nu2cc7
RT: @wkyc Alert: Cuyahoga County Commissioner Dimora calls for federal investigation of FBI/IRS investigation http://tinyurl.com/kl7cga LOL!
Mom says “Christ is for everyone”
Looking to launch new blog. Any recs on best hosted social optimized platform? Familiar w/ WP & Tumblr. What about SquareSpace, Typepad etc?
People have been tweeting me their tasty menu creations. Include @dougcraver for your cooking tweets and if I like I’ll Tweet a “Throw Down”
RT @andrewkavanaugh: @dougcraver Sounds good, need to find a place where we can rent 2 grills with smokers for the actual at @leandog
Listening to Fast City by Joe Zawinul on @slackerradio before heading out to visit with Mom in Hospice.
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100 Essential Web Tools for Any Side Business |... →
Whether you’re a victim of cutbacks, outsourcing or your own personal ambitions, your side business is probably more than just a hobby. And since you’re intent on growing your company into something respectable and profitable, you’ll need the tools and connections to help you project a professional image. Check out our list of 100 essential web tools for anyone who’s starting up a side...
WebWorkerDaily →
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Factual →
Just got a demo of Factual Beta. Slick Open Data app that will revolutionize how we share/collaborate on data: https://www.factual.com/login
Web Privacy Efforts Targeted - WSJ.com →
Among the measures is an icon that would appear either on Web pages or ads alerting consumers if their activity is being tracked. Clicking the icon would reveal information on the activities that a site collects about visitors, along with a list of companies that use this data, said an official at an ad trade group.
Regulators are focused on a technique called “behavioral...
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Google reveals speed as a secret to its success |... →
It turns out that a delay as short of the blink of an eye — about 400 milliseconds — could turn users off. Last year, Mayer said, Google experimented by injected a 400 millisecond delay into its delivery of search results. Searches per user started dropping. After six weeks, searches per user had fallen nearly one percent. That seemingly small figure represented several hundred million dollars a...
D.C.'s Kinetic Tech Czar - washingtonpost.com →
I wish, I wish we can have this kind of tech leadership in Cleveland:
“I don’t want to buy technology the old way,” he said. “Three years ago, D.C. schools spent $25 million to deploy a human resources software program. It failed, and not a single person was fired,” Kundra said as he rushed between meetings. “And they had the audacity to ask for more money....
Editorial Control for Businesses Using Twitter |... →
With TweetFunnel, multiple users within your business or organization can funnel their tweets into a single Twitter profile. You control what gets publicly tweeted!
Twitter to Share Shopping Tips, Add E-Commerce... →
Todd Chaffee, a board investor for Twitter and general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, has suggested to The New York Times that the site may incorporate a means for advertisers to target customers by their desires in real-time — then send direct messages proffering discounts and special offers.
Conceptually, the microblogging service would wed e-commerce to the generous product...
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GoingOn.com | GoingOn Home →
Need to review for StartupAgile project.
Social Media Marketing Campaigns: How To Set Goals... →
Great post:
Determining and set your goals and target audience is a fairly important preliminary process when it comes to social media marketing. the best strategy determine your goals directly to the community to target. This blog talks about the common goals for social media marketing and includes suggestions on how you can determine your target audience.
Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant! →
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Does Marketing With Twitter Matter? →
What is Twitter? Is it an effective marketing tool? How do you measure its ROI? All of these are questions worth addressing.
Basically, Twitter is a next generation instant messaging tool. But how does it add value from a marketing perspective, instead of just a personal communications standpoint? The answer lies in attracting enough of the right followers and creating dialogue among the group...
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– Flash Components - FlashDen
Razorfish Technology » Blog Archive » agile and... →
I ran across an Distributed Agile post today that dug up some more research backing up pair programming. Here’s what the post had to say
“Pairing is the most powerful tool they’ve ever had. Skills don’t matter as much as collaboration and asking questions. Goal for new hires is to get their partner hired. Airlines pair pilots… Lorie Williams at the University of North Carolina did an experiment...
An emerging direct digital marketing world by... →
The Definition of Direct Digital Marketing
Direct Digital Marketing is comprised of three basic message delivery channels: email, the Web, and the mobile phone. Addressability is the common link that ties these channels together. Like direct marketing uses the postal address, every online consumer has an email address (obviously, the email channel), a browser cookie (the Web channel), and/or a...
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Can you imagine Hunter S. Thompson on Twitter? Now that would be fun reading!
Social Radar - The Ultimate Social Media... →
Agile and pair programming http://technology.razorfish.com/2009/03/31/agile-and-pair-programming
Servant leadership - Wikipedia, the free... →
“Servant leadership is an approach to leadership development, coined and defined by Robert Greenleaf and advanced by several authors such as Stephen Covey, Peter Block, Peter Senge, Max DePree, Margaret Wheatley, Ken Blanchard, and others. Servant-leadership emphasizes the leader’s role as steward of the resources (human, financial and otherwise) provided by the organization. It...
Microsoft's Bing Yields Results - WSJ.com →