With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured by our digital profiles, our search records baking in un-erasable cookies forever. Google will own [...]
Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to analyze your writing style and tell you what author you write like. It is exploding [...]
Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford health care.
We’ve all done it. Filled the little square on Facebook with vacuous gibberish, then hit “comment.” I won’t use any examples here, go to your Facebook page and you will see for yourself. No shortage of mindless ramblings that serve the basic intent of saying, “Hey, I’m alive. I made it through this crummy day. [...]
Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here (in chronological order). Thank you for your time.
A breeze raked a fallen pine fan across the roof. In the distance, beef cooked on a grill, the aroma following the [...]
Is it just me, but on Facebook, there seems to be a lot of fan pages, but not a lot of active fans? Your friends are pretty engaged. They post stuff and make comments and toss pics up. But on fan pages, there seems to be less engagement. Perhaps it is because everyone wants to [...]
Blogs are usually short, pithy, quickly-read, Seth Godin-ish snippets of 400 words or less. If the blog goes longer than that, experts advise you to break up your verbiage with subheads or lists. The things I mostly write here would often be considered short stories instead of blogs. And while most of these stories are [...]
I have recently been thinking about what will happen when we take the media out of social media and build more network into social networking. I am not the only one. David Armano at the Dachis Group recently gave a presentation to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York:
http://www.slideshare.net/dachisgroup/social-business-design-web-20-nyc-2548310
Below, I have framed some of my [...]
By the time you read this, it will be Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Today is considered by many to be the worst travel day of the year. Day after tomorrow will be Black Friday, traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year. In this jobless recovery, will it be a retail boom or bust? Good question. [...]
Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here (in chronological order). Thank you for your time.
Sail Cat Road, Chapter 15
The food smelled smoky and greasy. Freshly mopped tile glistened under the booths. No one in the café [...]
The Web is a churning ocean of endless information. That is hardly news. Insightful companies have posted some pretty telling numbers about what people think and what we’re doing about it. Edelman’s Trust Barometer alone is enough to make you wonder if your customers will be your customers tomorrow.
Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here in chronological order. Thank you for your time.
Chapter 14
Upstairs in his room, Gus was gaining strength. He knew about Bren’s abduction. He was about to check himself out and leave the [...]
Rudy, our Jack Russell, has been the subject of many of my stories. Not that millions of people are reading these blogs, but he has become s bit of a celebrity amongst the dogs in our neighborhood. They hang around the front yard waiting to get a glimpse of him. Even cats have begun to [...]
Ali Weinberg of MSNBC did a story on Terry and his Twitter novel, catch it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33231430#33231430
Twitter is not the salvation of your branding. There. I said it. Even though I spent a lot of time on Twitter in the last 3 months, writing a novel and a short story Twitter will not save your business from the lack of a story. But it can help you tell your story.