It's hard sometimes to manage your social networking presence. I have three main ones that I use (aside from this blog) - Facebook (friends only), Twitter, and LinkedIn (professional). I just added a fourth - Brazen Careerist - mostly because I read Penelope Trunk's blog avidly. Realistically though, I have way more - Wakoopa, LastFM, ...
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Deleting My Xing Profile
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Perseverance
On Wednesday I was getting on my bike, when my kneecap briefly rotated around the side of my knee. It was seriously painful, and I keeled over, bike with me, and my bike frame landed on my hurt knee. Ouch. I got picked up (literally, I was in the road) by some kind strangers and called ...
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Exciting News!
Back in August I submitted a proposal for the Holiday Science Lectures at the University of Ottawa. I blogged about it at the time here. I'm really excited, because it's been accepted and I will be presenting it this December! 50 word (50 words! How am I supposed to sum it up in 50 words? Oh ...
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Page Views vs. Engagement
There's an interesting article here entitled Audience vs. Traffic. It's about how engagement is more important that hits, and has an interesting point on the newspaper industry as well. I've said this before, but as we get more sophisticated ways to measure engagement things will change.
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I <3 Google Docs
Check out the video from Google, below. I thought it was really cute. Google docs is a great, free alternative to MS Office, but that's not where the real power of it lies. For collaboration, for any document that anyone else is going to use, it's such a better alternative. During the summer, I was working for ...
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The Social Network Business Plan
So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been reading The Social Network Business Plan. The premise of which is that the next big thing will be Social Networks built around products or services, for which there are 18 revenue channels - including subscription, conferences or "get-togethers", and finally chopping up what people are ...
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A Different Way to Present
There's a count down in my head for a presentation I need to give in early September. I've been thinking about how I want to do it - I need to show I'm serious about what I'm doing and can be trusted. I'd been thinking about a formal document along the same lines as a ...
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iTunes Store Optimization?
MobileCrunch has an interesting article about the dodgy tactics of a PR firm promoting iPhone apps. The thrust of it is that this company (Reverb) has, as part of the strategy they advertise to customers, been having interns post reviews of apps submitted to the store and also around the web. These tactics have something familiar ...
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I Don’t Have Impostor Syndrome
I almost feel like I shouldn't admit this - it's something all grad students are supposed to have (as far as I can make out), I had a talk about it in my first week and it's come up since then too. I'm not belittling it, and I know it's something a lot of grad ...
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Facebook Lite
I'm quite excited about this, it's being talked up in the press as a way for people with slow connections to access the site, but having recently been living somewhere where the internet was heavily censored, I'm more excited that accessing Facebook through a proxy site will be easier and a better experience.
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