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Participate dammit

I wrote a post a couple of days ago on commenting on blogs when you write a post or an article. Today I came across a clear example of why this needs to happen. An ad agency out of Portland called WK Studio did some work for Nike on a campaign called hyper dunk. One [...]

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Less out of date, more organic

In my opinion, books on the latest theories in information or management work better when they have a dynamic living web presence along side them. A great example would be Freakonomics. I read freakonomics a year or so ago, but it’s on the top of my mind because I read the blog and regularly visit [...]

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2 way communication or respect da comments

I find it interesting, actually make that I find it perplexing, yeah perplexing sounds right… I find it perplexing that people who write blog posts and articles don’t respond to comments that are put on the post or article. If you’re enabling your community to comment on your post then you should take the time [...]

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Getting it right the first time

I was browsing through my rss feeds when I saw the headline “Why was witchcraft used on cows in the Scottish Highlands?” it made me laugh and I tweeted it. When I went to the bbc page I saw that they had changed the headline to “”Kirk papers reveal charmed cows”, by the time you [...]

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Get rid of big offices

Let’s recap here, fuel prices are going up and up and up. People want to have a work-life balance. The internet has revolutionised the way people communicate. So why do we need to be in the same place to work together? We don’t. Sure being in the same room as people you work with adds [...]

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Focused communication

One of the reasons I love twitter and SMS messaging is that you have a limit to the number of characters you have to get your message across. So you’re constantly thinking about the most effective way to use the limit to get your message across. Communication formats without limits makes it more difficult to [...]

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