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Dining Tables

February 26, 2012

Since we moved five years ago into our 1920s Dutch-colonial house, we’d been dining on the same small cherry-wood pedestal table from our Brooklyn brownstone. It enabled great meals and remains an awesome table (and it’s for sale if you’d like to buy it). But it was time to upgrade to a new dining room table to anchor [...]

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Marketing Events – Performance Versus Follow-Up

February 25, 2012

My team at work led four industry marketing events during last week’s New York Social Media Week. Much planning went into each event performance. The team executed well. Plenty of well-deserved gratitude was exchanged among colleagues. Importantly, though, the show is not over. In fact, the work has just begun. Now comes the hard part [...]

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Round Business Cards

February 23, 2012

Last week was Social Media Week in New York, and it was filled with Web industry events. My company, alone, led four. And I, personally, collected close to a hundred business cards. As we all know, business card exchanges require taking your cards out of your pocket and putting others into your pocket. Then you have to [...]

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Organization and Cleanliness Enable Great Outcomes

February 20, 2012

“If you work in [enter four-letter dirty word that rhymes with spit], you tend to produce [enter four-letter dirty word that rhymes with spit].” That’s a quote I overheard from a renowned chef at one of New York’s top French restaurants, where I once worked. To be sure, the quote included the actual four-letter word. [...]

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Clickable Is Hiring

February 14, 2012

Things are picking up at Clickable. With a strong record in search marketing automation, we now are the leading Web software platform for successfully launching, managing and deriving intelligence and ROI from social advertising (like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.). We’re signing partnerships with major brands and agencies. But we want to grow much faster. Among [...]

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I’m Extremely Popular On Pinterest…

February 13, 2012

…and I’ve only logged in once. Everyone wants to follow me. Just sayin’.

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Photo Storage and Security

February 12, 2012

Many have written Flickr off for tepid innovation, but its persistent existence has made the service a most comforting home for our treasured photos. Since 2005, Laura and I have shared a Flickr account to archive and share our photos with each other, family and friends. Recently, Laura has been concerned over the safety of [...]

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