Mitch Joel's Blog: Six Pixels of Separation, page 414

Removing The Noise

Too many people are looking for too many ways to follow too many people and places. Your best bet is to do the opposite...

Did you know that you can have your 140-character tweets from Twitter also cross-posted into your Facebook status, LinkedIn status and now even into your Google Buzz without doing much of anything besides letting each platform know that you would like this happen? And while that may sound convenient for you to ensure that anybody and everybody who is following you can...

The Value Of Good Exposure

People do a lot of things just for the "exposure." It could well be that the concept of exposure is about to become overexposed.

Recently, there was a press release about a new online news publisher that had received some venture funding (not an usual story and not much of a big deal in today's world). While the news went fairly unnoticed in the grander scheme of things, it created several discussions in online newsgroups and email. One individual commented that while the investment was...

The Exciting New World Of Maps

As we make more and more transitions to a highly mobile and connected world, it seems like maps are all the rage (again).

If you were somewhat surprised that Avinash Kaushik (author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0, Blogger at Occam's Razor and Analytics Evangelist for Google) declared that "maps" have got him most excited at work these days (for the full conversation with Kaushik, please go here: SPOS #189 - Avinash Kaushik With His Hair On Fire), then you may even be...

What The World Needs Now

It does seem like everywhere you go and everywhere you turn, people have something (usually bad) to say about how everything is turning out in the world.

For the majority of people, even trying to fix some of these issues - and they can be local, national or global - just seems way too daunting. But, let's say you could take the time to really think, meditate and postulate about what we can do - right now - to make things better? Let's look at this from a business perspective: what if we...

The Exciting New World Of Maps

As we make more and more transitions to a highly mobile and connected world, it seems like maps are all the rage (again).

If you were somewhat surprised that Avinash Kaushik (author of Web Analytics - An Hour A Day and Web Analytics 2.0, Blogger at Occam's Razor and Analytics Evangelist for Google) declared that "maps" have got him most excited at work these days (for the full conversation with Kaushik, please go here: SPOS #189 - Avinash Kaushik With His Hair On Fire), then you may even be ...

What The World Needs Now

It does seem like everywhere you go and everywhere you turn, people have something (usually bad) to say about how everything is turning out in the world.

For the majority of people, even trying to fix some of these issues - and they can be local, national or global - just seems way too daunting. But, let's say you could take the time to really think, meditate and postulate about what we can do - right now - to make things better? Let's look at this from a business perspective: what if we...

How Indispensable Are You?

The economy is still pretty sucky.

Even as certain industries and sectors claw their way back to some sort of semblance of normalcy, some of your peers are still being laid off, budgets are being slashed and businesses are still grappling with how to do more with less.

In all of this, those individuals still on top of their game seem to be doing just fine. Some have even been thriving.

When the recession was in full throttle, I found myself in a conversation with one of the head talent...

How Indispensable Are You?

The economy is still pretty sucky.

Even as certain industries and sectors claw their way back to some sort of semblance of normalcy, some of your peers are still being laid off, budgets are being slashed and businesses are still grappling with how to do more with less.

In all of this, those individuals still on top of their game seem to be doing just fine. Some have even been thriving.

When the recession was in full throttle, I found myself in a conversation with one of the head talent...

This Will Change Everything... Again

What do you make of articles that say, "this will change everything for Marketers?"

The truth is, I'm just as guilty as the next Journalist, Blogger and Writer to publish thoughts like that. The truth is, those types of sayings and thoughts are popping up in every form of media a lot more often these days. The truth is, it's true. We tend to lump everything we see in the digital channels as "Social Media" and it's probably one of the biggest disservices we can do to the online channels and...

This Will Change Everything... Again

What do you make of articles that say, "this will change everything for Marketers?"

The truth is, I'm just as guilty as the next Journalist, Blogger and Writer to publish thoughts like that. The truth is, those types of sayings and thoughts are popping up in every form of media a lot more often these days. The truth is, it's true. We tend to lump everything we see in the digital channels as "Social Media" and it's probably one of the biggest disservices we can do to the online channels and p...