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Emailing 101: Make a list. Check it thrice.
Over the years, I’ve written a bunch of emails. My gmail “Sent” box is at 5,000+. No joke. Add to that all of the mass emails I’ve written and executed. Phew. I’m gonna skip calculating the total. Math makes me want to take a nap. Let’s just say a lot. I receive a lot too. Every […]
Making Boston Awesome, One Wall at a Time
There was a whole lot of Awesome in the submissions bag for the Boston chapter’s September 2011 Fellowship. One in particular stood out. Internationally known mural artist, Caleb Neelon, applied for spray paint and sandwich money to underwrite the transformation of a large wall for the Tobin School in Mission Hill. For those who love […]
The Gator Curator
The most valuable business lesson I have learned to date caught me by surprise on the main floor of the Jacob Javits Center. It was an unlikely, and rather large, de facto classroom. I was three years out of school, and as such, was a pro with a discerning eye and an innate business acumen […]
Droid Does… (aka the Disaster Communications App)
Access to communications technology is AWESOME, but not everyone has it. Cell phone towers are expensive and developing, remote, rural, and/or disaster ridden areas often don’t have those resources. Expose an already weak communications infrastructure to the destruction of a natural disaster, and you have our collective nightmare: Asia circa 2004, Haiti, and the site […]
The Alpha Bet
The Boston Globe’s ‘Innovation Economy’ columnist, Scott Kirsner, lit up the bat signal today. He’s calling all savvy end users to pitch in and help local tech entrepreneurs test, shape, and promote their products. I’m there and have been since the late 1990s when I started littering the web with digital breadcrumbs in the form […]
Hot off the WordPress
It’s T-Minus sixteen days until the inaugural WordCamp Boston! I’ve been looking forward to this event for a while. My training regimen began in earnest on November 13, 2009 when I tuned in for the live stream of WordCamp Phoenix. (Thanks GoDaddy!) I haven’t found an outfit as comfortable as the jammies I donned for […]
Invasion of the Pod Tweeple #pcb4
I never had the whole “Kumbaya” camp experience as a kid. There were two summers I was signed up for the town rec. department’s “Summer Scene” day program. A few weeks in, they’d run out of gimp. I’d be out of the bracelet making biz, free to spend time with the devil’s spawn little angels […]