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Be The Signal, Not The Noise

February 3, 2010

Sometimes your run across something in your twitter stream that just makes you immediately unfollow that person. Many times this is caused by political or religious content, other times it is the dreaded sledge hammer like barrage of sales pitches.
Now I’d be the last one to say brands and businesses should not use social media, [...]

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Cincy Tweet Up Takes The Cake

December 11, 2009

Five days ago I had the pleasure of meeting a small cross section of Cincinnati’s Twittersphere.  The good folks at Take The Cake Cafe hosted the gathering which was organized by @takethecakecafe / @geekjames, @rainie1u, and @simpleton001.
Back home in New Orleans there is a lot of face-to-face interaction amongst local bloggers, tweeters, etc. It’s something [...]

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Cincinnati Tweetup, Come On Down!

December 5, 2009

Well, I’m late to the game on this one, having neglected twitter for a day or two I missed the announcement so hopefully I’m getting this out in time to be useful to some of you.
At 1pm today there will be a Tweet Up at Take The Cake Cafe on Hamilton Ave. in Cincinnati’s Northside [...]

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HootSuite: A Look at The New Version

August 7, 2009

I’m on twitter a lot. I have multiple account to juggle and I like to have a lot of ease and abilty to customize wherever possible. This is why I love HootSuite (and no, I’m not on the payroll). With the recent launch of their new version HottSuite is better than ever. Take a look [...]

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Denial of Service Attack Hits Twitter

August 6, 2009

People all over the world experienced an outage the like of which we have not seen since the days the Fail Whale became a pop culture image. Twitter went down hard, no Fail Whale, no API access from third party services like HootSuite and Tweetdeck, nothing. Hours of nothing.
@djmatao LOL. Denial of Service attack caused [...]

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Real Time Reporting Across Four State Lines

August 5, 2009

Events of the past twenty-four hours have given me an interesting case study in the use of social media as a device for real time reporting. You see back in New Orleans there is a Krewe, a Mardi Gras parading organization, called the Krewe du Vieux. Yesterday their den, where the floats are stored between [...]

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Stirring The Pot: Ari Herzog on Gov 2.0

April 19, 2009

One of the first voices I ran across when I started to test drive Twitter was Ari Herzog. He was all over the place it seemed. I had already been familiar with some of his work on Mashable and the Huffington Post, and found his thoughts on transparency to quite interesting.
At that time the Presidential [...]

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Intro To Social Media: Lecture Resources

April 10, 2009

Today I’d like to provide a few resources as a follow up to my lecture yesterday. We had a small but engaged crowd at the Sophielab, and I promised I would put together a quick overview with some useful links. (For those who missed it and have an interest, Crystal at Sohpielab is ripping the [...]

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Twoubles and Twitter

March 18, 2009

Hey everyone, bloggin on this site will be spotty for the next 5 weeks or so while my wife, the lovely Mrs. A., and I pack up, move to Cincinnati, close on a house, and get her started in grad school. Whew!
In the meantime I will be doing my best to provide some interesting things [...]

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