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#FollowFriday: Authors Who Rock

This is a weekly series that I’m hoping to help add some more relevance to the #FollowFriday (what’s this?) Twitter activity originally started through Lijit’s own Micah Baldwin to help connect Twitterers.  This week will focus on the authors who have written some of the best books that I’ve read recently and are on Twitter. I’ve been fortunate […]

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No bull-shitake. Guy Kawasaki’s “Reality Check” is telling you how it is.

A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to attend what was perhaps my first business trip for work. The keynote speaker turned out to be Guy Kawasaki. To be quite honest, I hadn’t heard about him before and after his speech at the TravelCom 2007 conference & expo in Las Vegas, I was […]

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Usability: where customers are always right

There’s something to be said about the above picture (credit: Guy Kawasaki) featuring Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame himself polishing the shoe of legendary venture capitalist and Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki in Moscow. The premise behind this very informative photo? According to Guy Kawasaki himself… Richard Branson is speaking before me. He asks me […]

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Make the Internet work for your business

If you’re trying to start building your web presence, then chances are that you’ve heard of Network Solutions and the array of services that they offer, perhaps most notably being a registrar of domains. They are also pretty well known for trying to support small businesses in their effort to get their web presence off […]

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Have I told you that I admire Seth Godin?

In an earlier post, I had talked about “dropping names” and I’ve been astonished by the folks that I’ve encountered online – people like Robert Scoble, Geoff Livingston, Shel Israel, Jim Long, Loic Le Meur, and even Dave Winer. Not to go on a tangent or anything, but I happened to come across Robert Scoble […]

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Because dropping names just isn’t fun without actually meeting them…

I’m quite ecstatic about things that are going on with my online presence, I must admit. It’s the small things that make it all worth it. In just the last 24 hours, I’ve been noticed by some of the best minds in the Washington, DC tech community and ultimately it’s because I did a handshake. […]