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Conference Productivity Tips For SXSW

March 10, 2010 · Comments

South by Southwest Interactive begins in ernest tomorrow as geeks from everywhere descend upon Austin, Texas. If you’ve heard of “South by,” you’ve probably been told it’s an amazing experience that is largely defined by parties and networking. Conference productivity is often tossed by the wayside at these things, but if you don’t plan for business success while attending them, then why are you going?

Conferences of any kind are only as productive as you make them. You can to to every session and learn a lot. You can go to none and do the same. If you’re goals are more business driven, the hallways and blogger lounges are where the action is, if not the exhibition floor. But you can’t just show up and be productive.

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Three Tips For Social Media Management

November 6, 2009

I sat across the lunch table talking to Craig Bruenderman and Sam Gracie of ResonantVibes.com yesterday, talking about their community of electronic mix music producers and fans, smiling at what I heard. These are young, tech-oriented entrepreneurs, immersed in all the code and programming most of us fear. They use social tools to build their [...]

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How To Be The Social Media Champion At Your Office

November 17, 2008

Your boss thinks you “play on Facebook,” all day. Your co-worker who is jonesing for the same promotion is monitoring the time of day you post to Twitter. The guy from across the hall sips black coffee through his brown teeth and laughs, “Met the man of your dreams on Ebay, yet?”
What a nimrod.
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Calgoo Brings Permission-Based Advertising To Your Calendar

October 30, 2008

As if consumers need another place to see ads, a tool called Calgoo is now offering the world’s first in-calendar marketing platform that will essentially put advertiser’s messages for events, sales and so on right there on your calendar. But hold on! While the tone of that sentence might lead you to believe it’s just [...]

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Simple Efficiency Tweaks to Get More Done in Social Media

October 22, 2008

Okay, confession time:  I’m secretly a David Allen/GTD groupie.
I discovered Allen’s stuff several years ago, when I was the in-house marketing person at a large regional commercial construction company.  As basically a one-person marketing department, I had to juggle a lot of different priorities and tasks, and my workday was really unpredictable.  One day I [...]

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Is Social Media a Waste of Time, or What Are You Doing With Your Cognitive Surplus?

June 6, 2008

When I try to explain to most folks what I do for a living, no matter how well I try to explain myself, I usually get the same response, which generally boils down to some variation of “So, you get paid to goof off on the internet, basically?”
It’s a fair statement, I suppose. Up [...]

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Stronger Signal, Less Noise

May 7, 2008

If there’s one social media tool, or more appropriately, one technological advancement which enhances social media I am beholden to above all others, it’s RSS. Really Simple Syndication redefined web surfing for me. I’m convinced it can do the same for the rest of the world, whenever they come around to it. I’m even happy [...]

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10 Steps To Manage Your Feed Reading Time

December 20, 2007

Two weeks ago I looked up from my feed reader and realized I’d been checking feeds for an hour and 12 minutes, non-stop. I was at work. There was a lot to do. And I wasn’t finished.
“Enough,” I thought. “I have got to get a grip on this. But how?”
RSS feeds can make surfing the [...]

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