Monthly Archives: December 2008
What’s Twitter, and why I love it
If you work in an environment filled with friendly, fascinating people, where you continually hear about exciting news (local, online, and around the world), and you are encouraged to be witty and playful, then you don’t need Twitter. Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Marketing Communications, Online Work/Life, Social Media, Working
Warm wishes for the holidays
The winter holidays are pretty much contiguous this year, which means we can light our menorahs, Christmas trees, and Yule logs all at the same time. I like it — this feeling of everything all together. In the 60s people … Continue reading
Filed under Online Work/Life
Web content: We’re (probably) doin’ it wrong
This piece by Kristina Halvorson on A List Apart raises some excellent issues about web content strategy. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it unflinchingly describes some of the problems with the content a lot of us … Continue reading
Filed under Web Content, Web Design
Bad Apple on the family tree?
Oh, Steve, you’re in trouble now: “Mom” reprimands Apple for its decision to pull out of future Macworld Expos.
Filed under Apple
Losing sight of the fax? Not yet.
When was the last time you faxed something? I quit struggling with the blankety-blank cheap fax machine in the den a couple of years ago, and finally unplugged it last summer when it began making strange grumbling sounds. The convenience … Continue reading
Filed under Productivity
Amusing advice to people who aren’t listening
I’ve been known to dish out advice (no, really!) and I’m aware that the people it’s aimed likely aren’t listening. And those who are listening are probably the folks who don’t need it. But, at least, they share my mixture … Continue reading
Filed under Communication
I can dream, can’t I?
Not only would I like this bookcase, I think the cats would enjoy it as well. They have promised to buy it for me when they win the LOLcat lottery.
Filed under Productivity
That was then, and this is now
I am putting my indispensable Harvest timesheet clock on “unbillable” for a few minutes to talk about what’s been flooding our email inboxes for the past few days: Requests for money, from both business enterprises and charities. Like the current … Continue reading
Filed under Marketing Communications
