Jul 6, 2008
For the past several weeks, my spam filter has been blocking emails I’m calling insult spam. The New York Times wrote about them in June, around the time I started receiving them. (Oh, how wonderful it is to be an early adopter!)Basically, these messages have a...
Jul 4, 2008
Yesterday, I was trying to call a former business associate who had recently changed jobs. So I went to his new company’s website, dialed the contact number and instead of the usual if-you-know-the-extension-press-it-now greeting, I reached the customer help...
Jun 23, 2008
Portage and Main? River and Osborne? Vaughan and Graham?In the past few days I’ve had a couple of close encounters of the Winnipeg kind with the city of my birth.It started Thursday evening at the Bachman Cummings concert. What a trip – down memory lane,...
Jun 21, 2008
One thing I really like about the blogosphere is how much constant learning I need to do, just to keep up. The ever-evolving nature of social media is one of its best and most daunting characteristics. I can’t begin to tell you how many times my head starts...
Jun 19, 2008
…when you do a Microsoft spell-check and you aren’t offered the following alternatives:- bog for blog- logger for blogger
Jun 16, 2008
In a couple of recent entries, Joel Postman offers communicators a strategic perspective on two social media fronts:1. He analyses the types of posts you most often find on business/marketing blogs and then breaks them into useful categories. I was struck by the fact...
