Oh man have I neglected my blog. No excuses really, just so busy with a variety of things, and I haven’t really thought of any topics that inspired me lately. Therefore I’ll use this re-awakening as an opportunity to update all those that care (probably like 2 or 3 readers, of which 1 or 2 are probably bots). New Job Started a new gig back in March. I’m a Senior MVP Lead for Microsoft Office. Fancy way of saying I manage the group of individuals that are professionally ...
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9 Ways To Get Yourself Unfollowed On Twitter
Oh the wonders and gloriousness of being followed on Twitter! It’s a tiny gift from the digital world that keeps on giving. An invitation from those that you’ve never met, to share your deepest, darkest secrets and happenings (I know, sentence fragment, but it’s my blog!). But careful Twitter lovers, because violate any of these 9 Twitter laws and you’ll find yourself on an unfollow smackdown! 1. Under Tweet – If you don’t provide any value, what good are you? You’re just Twitter waste and ...
Olive Garden on Facebook: How To Not Use Social Media
UPDATE: It appears this is actually a scam. The official Olive Garden Facebook Fan Page posted such. Obviously Olive Garden is not behind this nor supports it. However rather then pull this blog post, I still think it raises some good points around the importance of social media awareness and protecting your brand. The bigger culprit here is Facebook for making it so easy to facilitate this sort of thing on their platform. I was so irritated by my recent experience with Olive Garden on ...
Dave Barnes & Matt Wertz: Music & Social Media Done Right
One of my favorite things to see regarding social media is when one of the products, services or things I enjoy use it effectively. It’s surprisingly rare, but I’m finding more instances of this happening. None more so then from 2 of my current favorite recording artists, Dave Barnes and Matt Wertz. I actually found both artists by accident. I found Dave’s website a few years ago perusing through a web design gallery, and just happened to take a listen to one of his hit songs “Until You”. ...
Me & Microsoft: Round 2
10 months ago, I had the misfortune of being one of many Microsoft casualties in their rounds of layoffs. It was a pretty jarring experience losing your job and all. Especially when the reason you moved across the country was to work for the company. While I was certainly impacted from a financial perspective along with the worry of what's next, I actually felt more disappointed that they were letting someone go that had done quite well up to that point and had been a huge advocate for many ...
iPhone 101: How To Sync Gmail Contacts Without Using Exchange
1/2/2013: UPDATE Seeing as to this day, this is still one of my most trafficked blog posts, I felt it was important to update this post to reflect the fact that you can now accomplish what I originally wrote below without the need of a 3rd party app simply by using the Exchange option on your iPhone. There is no longer a 1 account limitation so just follow these steps and you are good to go! Open up the Settings app on your iOS device and go to the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” section. ...
