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National Public Radio now count themselves as having the tiniest shortened URL for use on Twitter and other social media sites. The organization announced their new domain N.PR yesterday on their blog. The company had been using Stumble Upon’s  Su.pr url shortener on most of their Twitter acco...

I spend a lot of time in Twitter search. I do it for several purposes. One is for my client partners. For instance, if I’m thinking of ways to do things for MolsonCoors, I might start up searches on various beer brands to get some competitive analysis. I might start figuring out if there are [...

I have an information gathering project that I think might prove interesting for someone looking to do some light lifting in the world of interning. The project is fairly straightforward and just requires scanning a bunch of RSS feeds and searches, taking the best of the tidbits from it, cataloging ...

So, Tim Hayden from Blue Clover and I have put together a little side event for you to consider if you’re going to SXSW in Austin, Texas. It’s called Get Ready to Live (a name that came out of a throwaway comment Tim made to me at The Big Conference in Portland, Maine, but that [...]...

When I first had the insane brilliant idea to start a business and get out of the alleged safety of the corporate world, I started by reading everything I could find. I wish I could remember where the thread started for me. It might have been Dan Kennedy, it might have been Michael Port, it could [...

I had a great time at LikeMinds in the UK last week. It was a wonderful event seeking out meaning around people-to-people. It was a brilliant event. My part? I shared a bit of the mind behind the like. Here’s the video: If you can’t see it, click here....

In the continuing quest for a fully virtualized data center, IT professionals have a new tool that promises to dramatically simplify the journey: the Vblock from the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) Our favorite geeks are coming back ! Discover how Vblock delivers pre-engine...

Evidently, I stunned the world by telling people what I charge for a day of my time. What a great opportunity to talk about pricing, value, worth, etc. Let’s just get right down to business on this one: Charge what you’re worth. Why are you letting me define you, in either direction. Y...

I was browsing through my RSS feeds a couple of minutes ago and I came across an interesting post from the Google Webmaster Blog, titled Google's SEO Report Card. Original Post: Download Google’s SEO Report Card ...

I just put up an offer on Third Tribe Marketing: ask me almost any business question and I’ll do my best to answer it in the next couple of days. It costs $47 to join Third Tribes. I charge approximately 466 times that for a day of my time. So, the way I look at [...]...