Three years ago this past Sunday, I sent a tweet to someone I had just started following. Eight months later, in October 2008 — after direct messages, IMs, GChats and iChats — we met, and it was official. This was the girl for me. After that, the long distance phone calls got longer and more [...]
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There are countless social media professionals out there. Freelance social media consultants. Agency social media strategists. PR-two-dot-something-or-others. And they’re all great, and do great work (hopefully!) for brands of all shapes and sizes. But what about the people inside the brands? The people that know what makes the brand tick… and more importantly, what makes [...]
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34 years ago this afternoon, Gradon Waters (my birth name — I was adopted) was born in Bath, Maine, a wee town of 10,000 or so people over 13 square miles. Charlestown, the neighborhood of Boston I live in, has 4,000 more people in 1/13th the space. Needless to say, a lot has happened since [...]
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My commute into work yesterday morning was interrupted by a tweet by none other than the ever-stylish Scott Monty. It seems the my friend DJ Waldow*, in Miami for the DMA’s Email Evolution Conference, wasn’t sure if he should wear an undershirt under his dress shirt. Against the better judgment of Scott (who has the hashtag [...]
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I’m not one to talk about specific social media sites or offer advice on what tools to use (since I believe those choices should be based on what your specific goals are), but I figured I’d make an exception for this one — especially given my interest in financial communities online as of late. If [...]
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Whether you’re just starting to blog, or if you’ve been posting for years… you’ve done it. Right after hitting “Publish”, right after the tweet goes out or the link gets posted to Facebook, you see it: the error. The gaffe. The misspeak. The broken link. It’s small, but it’s there. Can you go in and [...]
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