Category: On The Web
5 Reasons Why Your Facebook Brand / Fan Page Sucks

Part of my job is to manage a handful of company brand pages, some more successful than others due to the demographic of the readership.  As I work with Facebook brand pages all day, it has become very obvious to me that the majority of brand / fan pages are clueless when it comes to attracting more fans effectively and [...]

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4 Kickass Websites that I Adore

I use a handful of tech oriented websites on a daily basis (for my job).  Outside of the realm of strictly tech, here are some lesser known, but extremely useful sites that I utilize constantly during my day.
Fav4 (link)
The concept of this website couldn’t be simpler (and likely borrows a page from the bottom menu on the iPhone).  The site [...]

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The Twitmaster General

I manage six different Twitter accounts.  While that may seem like an overload of tweets, it’s actually quite simple.  Five are related to the websites I help manage.  (In all fairness, I can’t lay claim to the nickname inception of Twitmaster General.  It was coined by a couple guys at work in jest to all the Twitter accounts.)
I use several [...]

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Status Updates Galore

Are you familiar with Ping.fm?  It’s a service that allows you to update all your social networks with one click of a mouse.  I thought this was a brilliant idea when I signed up a year ago, but it’s becoming more evident each day that my “lifestream” is molded differently for every social network I belong to.  Occasionally there’s a [...]

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How to move 2500 miles away without a job waiting for you.

30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.

Today, I [...]

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I hope one of them gets it.

I rarely post about politics, but something intriguing on the campaign front caught my eye today. A presidential candidate is advertising in Burnout Revenge. For those unfamiliar, Burnout Revenge is a car-racing video game owned by Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts sells ad space on digital billboards within the game. When gamers hop online to play a little Burnout [...]

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Indie Flicks, Billion Dollar Mistakes and SNL

- Caught this little indie flick with Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega (the female lead in Spanglish). What a quirky little movie!  Freeman plays an out of work character actor that’s dropped off in an predominantly Hispanic neighborhood to study a grocery store manager for a role in a movie.  He latches onto Paz Vega, the girl running the [...]

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