The Blog is the New Resume
When I introduced the CogBlog the other day, at the end of my presentation I snuck in a couple slides about trends I saw with blogs that really were catching my attention. One is the idea of “the blog...
View ArticleTwitter-pated
Well, at the how to Rawk panel, Tantek was touting the wonderfulness of Twitter. So, I gave and signed up. What is Twitter? They say: A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple...
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SXSWi: The Global Microbrand: Are Blogs, Suits and Wine the New Sex, Drugs...
I can’t believe it. This is the last panel of the conference. Judging the title and the panelists, what I’m expecting is… a fun panel. Panelists: David Parmet, Marketing Begins At Home LLC Gabe Rivera,...
View ArticleCrosspost: Hey Scientists, Why Not Blog?
Just wanted to post a quick note that I wrote a post called Hey Scientists, Why Not Blog? over at the CogBlog. I’m not a scientist, so I can’t relate to this problem. I do know, however, that web...
View ArticleHow Social Media Can Be a Pain in the Corporate Ass
I happened to recently come across two Boston.com articles about two specific examples of social media shaking up the healthcare industry. I’m not sure how long these will be available without...
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38Pitches: Curt Schilling Blogs
Schilling photo courtesy of redperm on Flickr Today, the buzz around Red Sox nation was that second year phenom Jonathan Papelbon would indeed not be moving the starting rotation, as Sox management...
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C.J. Nitkowski: Another Baseball Blog
I’ve written before about blogging baseball players Curt Schilling and Pat Neshek. I’ve got another one to tell you about—C.J. Nitkowski. These three blogs bring three very unique perspectives....
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Roundup of “The Blog is the New Resume” Discussion
About six weeks ago, I wrote a short piece called The Blog is the New Resume. It didn’t generate any comments, just some good off-line discussion between my friend Ed and I. Yesterday, however, I was...
View ArticleMotivations for Blogging
The time has come to follow up on the whole The Blog is the New Resume meme. At SxSW, the final panel was though-provoking for me in many ways. Kathy Sierra spoke a lot about how to treat your blog...
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Google Transit Comes Through: Best Customer Service EVER
I’ve heard the Goog take some lumps for not engaging in social media that much. Well, they just got pretty damn social with me. And I’m impressed. While at SXSW, I tried out the new Google Transit...
View ArticleLinkedIn and Community Management
Last night I was checking out Mario Sundar’s blog and saw that he recently helped kick off a corporate blog within LinkedIn. He is LinkedIn’s new community guy. First of all, I’ve had kind of an...
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Now with BatchBlue: My Blog Was My New Resume
Right now, I’m sitting at the Coffee Depot in Warren, RI at a table with Riley and Sean, my new teammates. Today, I’m starting as a User Interface Designer for BatchBlue. This ends an exciting (nearly)...
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I Finally Subscribed to a Ballplayer’s Blog: Yooooouuuuukkkkk!
Photo courtesy of mlb.com I’ve blogged before about baseball players blogging. Why am I so fascinated? Well, just like big corporations, baseball players have always been perceived as unapproachable...
View ArticleNew York Islanders Invite Bloggers to Press Box
Inside The Sporting News for Week of June 25, 2007 (yes, a paper magazine), I saw this blurb: Cyber Place The best thing about a great idea is how quickly it spreads. This is one of those ideas: The...
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A Blogging “Award” and a Couple Memetags
Meryl Evans, the latest blogger I’ve been in contact with since “the blog is the new resume”, has “memetagged” me. Yeah, I had to look it up, too. Meryl tagged me on a couple levels. First, she...
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The Heck with Pageviews: You Want Quality over Quantity
(click image for larger view) The above image is proof that more pageviews do not equal more discussion. I blog for myself. My goal when crafting blog posts is not to get eyeballs. If I do get them,...
View ArticleThe Blog is the New… Reverse Talent Scout?
We all know that the blog is the new resume. Well, it should also be noted that these things work both ways. Prospective employees are connecting with bloggers that work at (or have worked at)...
View ArticleI Remember Way Back When Technorati Rank Mattered (or Seemed To)
Disclaimer: I’m writing this as my Technorati rating plummets. When I first started blogging, this blog was simply a personal notebook. Then, as many did, I got wrapped up in the “whole blogging...
View ArticleDaddy Blogging
One of the nice things about being at a startup is getting to know some of your early beta users. Anisa of kidoinfo.com is one of those users. We met Anisa and her husband Doug through the Providence...
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My Favorite Posts of 2007
I haven’t been blogging long enough to settle on an “end of year post” strategy. Last year, I did a basic roundup where I set some goals. I hit most of them—guess I still have to work on writing and...
View ArticleBlogging About Why I’m Not Blogging
For the first time since I started blogging, I have found myself going fairly long stretches without posting. During my job hunt, I wrote a post called “Motivations for Blogging” and—well—I’ve been...
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Oh, I’m Blogging—Just Not Here
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I’m blogging more at the BatchBlue Blog than I am here. I just wanted to take a moment to tell you about some of the posts I’ve written since then. Life as a...
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Celebrating Small Business Week & Other Goings-On at BatchBlue
It has been a while since I did a little write-up of some of the posts I’ve written over at the BatchBlue blog and I think it’s time for another! Happy Small Business Week! That’s right, next week is...
View ArticleIs There a Doctor in the Hall?
A few weeks ago, I wrote that I was entering WEEI’s Next Great Sports Blogger contest. Well, I found out yesterday that I didn’t make the cut. I admit, I’m not your typical sports blogger, focusing...
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I’m Now Writing for Beyond the Box Score
I used to blog a little bit about baseball on this site. In order to keep the focus here more on tech (and to encourage myself to write more about baseball), I launched another site, BaseballTwit,...
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