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Category Archives: Brilliant + free
Visualizing Ideas: Fun with Google Drawings
Matt Moran, a colleague of mine, recently introduced me to Google Drawings, an unassuming part of the free package that comes with your suite of Google Apps. I guess I remembered how hideous the pictures I made with various drawing … Continue reading
What to do when your business’ Facebook or Twitter account is hacked, disabled or otherwise compromised
You go to log in to the Facebook or Twitter account that you use daily to support your business. Poof, it’s gone. You contact support, search on the web for answers, and come up wanting. You’re not a spammer, or … Continue reading
Posted in Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, How-to, Resources, Roundup, Sane Social Media, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Twitter
Tagged sane social media
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Free Advertising $$$ from Twitter and Amex: Here’s How to Get It!
Twitter has a new self-serve advertising solution for small business, which is reason enough to rejoice. For a long time, Facebook and Google Ad Words were the only game in town for scalable advertising that could fit a low budget … Continue reading
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
Learning Curves
Last night I went to my first “Transmedia” Meetup at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Not familiar with “transmedia”? It’s the somewhat unfortunate catch-all moniker for storytellers who are working across media — so … Continue reading
The Four Commandments of Discoverability: Self-interest, Freeness, Service and Novelty
I just recently discovered the writing of Cory Doctorow on the changing face of the book business. If you’re at all interested in that field, I’d highly recommend checking out the ebook of his quotes compiled by the Children’s Book … Continue reading
Think Outside the Cube: How 6 Companies are Disrupting the 9-to-5 Model
Last week, I went to the Re:Working Conference up at the Museum of the City of New York, which was an event loosely organized around the topic of how people connect and intersect in the working world. Of course we … Continue reading
Posted in Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, DIY, Resources, Roundup, Small Business, Small is Brilliant, The Work
Tagged Escape the City, ODesk, Task Rabbit, trada, Victors & Spoils
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The Altruist and the Algorithm
Yesterday at work, we were talking about how people engage with customer support. Some people use the phone, some people use Google and some people (though I don’t know any) use the manual. We were trying to better structure our … Continue reading
An NYC Valentine: 10 Things That Made Me Fall in Love With New York
A few days ago I was reading a blog post by a new mom and native New Yorker who was planning to move to the suburbs. In it were a lot of the familiar complaints about what a hassle it … Continue reading
Hashing out the challenges and opportunities in digital publishing
Social Media Week is nigh upon us and Susan Halligan and I have been busily preparing a knock-out panel on the future of books and “social reading.” In a prep session a couple weeks ago, we gathered together Jason Carey … Continue reading
