Tag Archive: Facebook


I enjoyed reading “What Would Google Do?” by Jeff Jarvis.  This book, despite the title, was not so much about Google but about the impact of Google/Internet has had on companies – especially looking to the future.  Overall this book was a good read – as you can tell Jeff Jarvis is a college professor by the insights he has into the effect of Google.  If you wondering what the future will possibly be like for many businesses in an Internet age I would highly recommend this book.

For my own sake (and hopefully yours) I will now note some of the items I really learned from this book:

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The other day I was working on a Facebook “FAN” page for a client of mine and posted an update as a link to a page on his site.  I was surprised at how effective the link preview looked – it managed to capture not only a picture from the page but some key text off the page.  I was very happy with the results and wanted to brag about a good piece of technology:

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I was thinking today about the new decade (still hard to believe) but especially about digital pictures and video.  I’ve loved going digital with pictures – as opposed to film (am I the only one who never got around to developing film?).  I love the ability to take multiple pictures,  to review them, to see them on the computer, make slideshows, and videos.   I think it’s important to take these snapshots of our lives -as they’ll never occur again. View full article »

Sometimes I wonder if I’m addicted to information – I find myself enjoying Twitter and Facebook feeds, of listening to informative podcasts, reading books, watching Discover channel type shows, reading web page articles, etc. (sometimes at the same time).  I like the mental stimulation – sometimes continuous – to the point that playing with my kids can be boring sometimes.  When I’m cleaning the house I usually like the TV on for mental stimulation – at work I listen to podcasts to keep my mind occupied.  I’ll even listen to a podcast of the news while walking the dog.

Does that mean I’m addicted or is this a cultural trend? I’m not sure that I’m always spending my time in the best way – as I may be missing some of the quality things in life.  I know silence is valuable but I have such a hard time with it.  Of course, as I write this I’m watching  a football game – as I can’t just sit and watch the game….

I wonder if we are on the brink of losing some of the quality of our news – of the in-depth reporting that traditional media has delivered.  I find myself watching some news stories on twitter vs. reading an article in Time Magazine.   I believe that media is changing – and changing toward a new business model. However, I’m concerned if there will still the in-depth quality we need to get good quality information – to make use think beyond the headline. View full article »

I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed Facebook – for quite some time I was pretty convinced I didn’t need to go there.   A friend gave me an invite and I was hooked.  I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed connecting with friends  -  especially those who have moved away.  That’s always been a challenge for me – as when friends move away I lose total contact with them.  I’ve tried to keep up with them in the past – but it’s never worked for me. View full article »

Sometimes it’s very difficult to balance your needs vs. that of your client.  For anyone in small business you know there is never enough time to do everything you want/need to do.  It’s a hard choice sometimes between continuing to work on their stuff vs. stopping to take some time for your own stuff.  In fact as I write this I had to pull away from working on a client’s website – as I still had another task to do for them (even though I worked on things last night and today for them). View full article »

I was thinking about possibly switching to Gmail as it might be nice to have access to my complete e-mail from anywhere.  I was therefore looking at how to possibly to migrate my existing Outlook e-mail to Gmail.  Then I got to thinking – I probably would want to backup my Gmail down to my PC – in case anything happened.  But then I use a backup service (Carbonite) to backup my computer to the cloud (Internet).

So I would be going from the cloud to my PC and then back to the cloud…  View full article »

Recently facebook changed some privacy settings – in a way I’m not sure will be best for everyone.  I was confronted all of a sudden with a new screen that asked me to confirm my settings for Facebook.  Fortunately I was able to retain my private settings as it gave me an option to keep my old settings – but my concern is that if you’ve never updated your settings it might default to “Everyone” – which means the Internet.

So I highly suggest that you update your settings in Facebook – while there are many excellent guides I’ll summarize here what I set my items to: View full article »

I don’t know if I’m the only one who is getting overwhelmed by all this social networking.  I started with Facebook for personal use – which I enjoy (that actually surprised me).  In order to learn how I have a Facebook page for my business.  I have this website as a blog now – to test out that concept – a site almost totally in wordpress.

I then created a twitter account in order to learn what that really is – as it’s all the rage now (maybe 140 characters or less matches our attention spans).  I also have a Linkedin account that I connected to this blog and joined a few groups.  I created a ping.fm account to link these blog posts to both Facebook and Twitter.   And I was also in the Steven Covey Community online tonight trying to figure out what value that would have.

Do you think that’s enough?  Oh, and I’m using Tweetdeck to try to manage reading all of the updates from Twitter and Facebook.  I just realized I have like 12 tabs open in this Firefox session and a few in another one – I wonder how many is too much?

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