The Social Engineer: Archive

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Feb 26th

Dec 24th

Like a Gazelle: My Job as Eye-Candy in the... →

Great work! rojospinks: Not too long ago, I was hanging out in a London nightclub, beer in hand, friends in tow, talking to some British guy I hadn’t the faintest interest in. During a particularly agonizing bout of small talk, this gentleman asked me what I was doing in London. I told him I was writing for a…

Dec 12th

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Dell Hell 2011 - the problem of telephone sales in... →

Taking a page out of Jeff’s Dell Hell post, I thought I might share one of my pet peeves with Dell - especially in the UK. One of the things I most hate about Indian call centres is the…

Nov 1st

Influence, Authority or Word-of-Mouth? →

For the past week, I have been watching a bunch of folks discuss the changes to Klout’s algorithm and have been amused at the concerns people have had. I should tell you that my Klout…

Oct 31st

Too hard on the City for their "Roadmap"? Here... →

So, the past weekend, I have had a number of people talk to me about my post on the Roadmap and how I was quite disappointed. For the most part, people were in agreement with my…

May 24th

Grading the "Road Map for the Digital City" →

When I got the alert that Rachel and Mayor Mike were announcing the Road Map for the Digital City and the associated Roadmap (PDF) for it, I typed the URL in my browser with the…

May 17th

Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea... →

pieratt: I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an unknown, 3,000-member web service into a cultural phenomenon, and I truly have very little…

May 15th

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SocialFlow Company Blog: Breaking Bin Laden:... →

socialflowteam: A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White… Excellent analysis…

May 6th

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After 100 Days of Repug rule – where’s the Jobs... →

May 3rd

It's Okay To Be Smart: How did they verify bin... →

jtotheizzoe: You’ve no doubt got plenty of news blogs to follow for the latest on bin Laden’s death. One thing jumped out at me that I thought I should address on my science blog. After announcing the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden yesterday, the US was careful to report that the body they…

May 2nd

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Watch out for HowAboutWe bait-and-switch... →

So - maybe you have heard about HowAboutWe on the web - a NY-based site that seems to be the next “new thing” for meeting people without using the bar scene as their primary source of connections…

Apr 30th

Liveblogging Eric Reis from The Learn Startup... →

All the academic research suggest that there are traits stubborn, charisma, reality distortion field, raw intelligence, salesmanship, ability to see things that are not there. What Eric…

Apr 1st

An incredibly passionate video of Tara on... →

One of my friends, Tara Hunt, is on her own entrepreneurial quest - and got a chance to speak at the TEDxConcordia event quite recently. The video below is 24 minutes of incredibly passionate,…

Mar 31st

Reid Hoffman @SXSWi - Web 3.0 and the Ten Rules of... →

I humbly apologize for the shaking - but the content is all there. Enjoy!

Mar 17th

Save NPR funding! →

Mar 10th

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“A unionized public employee, a Tea Partier & a CEO are @ a table with a...”

– http://www.facebook.com/scott.carstens

Mar 3rd

A worthy successor to Yahoo! and Google Groups -... →

This weekend, I was reconnected with a company that I met during my September Seedcamp visit in London who, as many other companies in the “group communication” space have before, asked to…

Mar 1st

Speed of a Meme: Is all there is but twitter and... →

Feb 11th

Social Media Week 2011 - #SMWSanity Live Blog →

Trying to follow here on the #SMWSanity panel: Moderator: Craig Minassian, Rally Producer and President Minassin Media Steve Grimes, SVP COMEDY CENTRAL Digital Don Steele, VP Digital Marketing,…

Feb 9th

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#SMWSanity panel liveblog

Trying to follow here on the #SMWSanity panel: Moderator: Craig Minassian, Rally Producer and President Minassin Media Steve Grimes, SVP COMEDY CENTRAL DIgital Don Steele, VP Digital Marketing, MTVN Entertainment Opens with a recap video of the sequence of the Rally to Restore Sanity. Steve tells us that Comedy Central had no idea for doing the effort - and they had no concept/warning...

Feb 8th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 6th

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Okay - this is FUNNNNNY.

Feb 4th

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Start watching from 2:50 onward. Best analogy to the differences between the Dems and Repubs.

Jan 29th

Jan 28th

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Evangelizing Yourself from Whitney Hess... →

While few would say that I have difficulty in meeting new people, I would say that Whitney’s slide-deck (found when reading Tony’s NWC 2.0 post recently) moved me. And, since my Blogger account is…

Jan 25th

“Why can’t all “tech” journalism be like this? A single article on the topic,...”

– Completely agree with Fred… Why is Schmidt stepping down at Google? (via fred-wilson)

Jan 24th

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NWC 2.0: Underdogs →

A beautiful post… nwc2: I find myself alone in the space again tonight, which is up there with Saturday mornings and showers as being among the best times to contemplate. And write blog posts. I’m sitting on the most comfortable couch in the space which, despite its new brown cover, is still referred to as the…

Jan 23rd

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Finding Your Passion - from 1998 Stanford Daily →

In the past few days, I have been rediscovering some of my older website pages (like Lessons Learned) and managing to recover some wisdom I found back at Stanford. This one is twelve…

Jan 23rd

Lessons That I Still Try to Learn →

Recently, I was cleaning out some old files and discovered one of my pages that came from a job I did back in 1997. I had created a website at my school and called the page “Lessons…

Jan 22nd

“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”

– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase. (via buzzandersen)

Jan 17th

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“Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” -Thomas Edison-”

– Nothing comes easy in life. We all pay our dues. Would success be worth striving for if we didnt have to work so hard to obtain it ? (via marydaphne)

Jan 16th

GI Bill for Programmers: 1000 by November 2011 →

Over the past few days, I have enjoyed watching people discuss the need for building more programmers in our area. With Charlie throwing down the gauntlet for 250, Fred picking it up to…

Jan 9th

Discussing Social Media at Renaissance Weekend →

Just had my first morning at RenWkd and discovered I was added to the Social Media Rush panel. So, in being on the panel, I noted a number of perceptions that I wanted to record and respond to while…

Dec 29th

The Senate Repugs are setting the stage for a 9/11... →

Dec 17th

Dec 2nd

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The Age of Music Piracy Is Officially Over |... →

I just love the headline writer versus the writer versus the copy editor sensibilities. rafer: Rafer sez: Do these guy write anything other than completely offbase obituaries?

Dec 2nd

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Liked this presentation from Jeremiah...

Industry Reference: Social Business Stack for 2011 We tried to do this as vippit.com in 2006

Nov 30th

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Nov 30th

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“When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any...”

– Thomas Freedman from the New York Times

Nov 18th

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Nov 16th

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Now, this is a way to sanity... →

As the alarm rang at 4:30am, I remembered the call just six and a half hours earlier from Ben Kallos saying, “Sanford, you’re on the bus!” The DL21C hired a bus for getting some of us down to the…

Oct 30th

Searching for a Career - is this an outmoded... →

In the past month, since I stepped away from the Product Development for the Texai, I have been entertaining conversations on “searching for a career”. Around the time of Yom Kippur, I met my natural…

Oct 30th

Liveblogging The New Rule of Engagement at PIVOT →

People powered participation Participatory web requires need new thinking. We are weaving a new global brain. visualcomplexity.com Death of the Grand Gesture. How do companies You build authentic…

Oct 20th

Definition of a Modern US President (video)? →

Oct 19th

Ariana Huffington at PIVOT →

Listening to Ariana Huffington - decided to liveblog. She loves the Chivas commercial Salk says we are moving from Epoch A to Epoch B where we are moving from competing & survival to meaning and…

Oct 19th

Early Voting Locations in Broward County (2010) →

Oct 18th

What is the Broward Soil and Water Conservation... →

Oct 17th