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Sane Social Media: Sign Up Now for the FREE ebook launching 4/15

We’ve talked in the past about epublishing and interactive books as our latest preoccupation obsession. Now, of course, we’re keen to road test all we’ve learned in the past few month in the form of a FREE ebook coming to you … Continue reading

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Opportunities and Pitfalls in the Age of the Artist as Entrepreneur

What does it mean to be a creator in 2012? It means you’ve got to be ready to be your own cheerleader, creating websites, micro-marketing and just figuring out by hook or by crook how to get seen by the … Continue reading

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Killer Book Marketing

The Information Diet is a new book by Blue State Digital co-founder Clay Johnson. It’s meant for anyone who’s ever felt paralyzed by multiple daily offers for $29 oxygen facials and naked kayaking or has worn out the fingerprint on their fingers … Continue reading

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Why Ideas are Worthless

Stop yourself the next time you start to say: “I have a great idea for a _______, if only _______.” I have a bit of a beef with idea people. Humor me for a sec.

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Social Promotions on Facebook and Google+ — How to Do Them Without Violating Policy

Do you have your Google+ page yet? I’ve spent some time over the past couple of days grabbing the key brands that I am responsible for tending to, but I was interested to read that it seems Google+ has even … Continue reading

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Micro-cinema

Ziegfeld hallway

When I was a teenager growing up in the hinterlands of Southern California, there was no way to see anything but the most mainstream blockbusters at the local big multiplex movie chain or double-features at the second-run discount house. I … Continue reading

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From the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

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Easter Sunday, Wycoff St., Brooklyn

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Whale spine at the LA Museum of Natural history

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I’ll be teaching this February 1-22

Just a quick note: I’ll be teaching again at Mediabistro beginning Tuesday, February 1 for four weeks. The class is an awesome four-week intensive called Copywriting for the Web. I’ve taught it twice already and we generally begin from the … Continue reading

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