From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Twitter: Cold-Calling 2.0

by techcommdood on May 26, 2009

Are you on Twitter? If so, does this scenario seem familiar?

Imagine you’re at a large social gathering. You float from conversation to conversation, greeting old friends and acquaintances and meeting new ones. You have some interesting conversations with some of the new people you meet, so you hand them your card to keep in touch. At the close of the evening you return home, and your answering machine and email inbox are filled with business opportunities, marketing messages, and random hellos. As you go through them you realize these are all from the people you handed your cards to. What bothers you more than the messages is the context; there is no context, and the messages are not even remotely related to what you were conversing with these people about at the gathering. They are cold-contact messages devoid of any direct meaning to you.

Read my entire article posted on SocMedia101.com where I share my take on the practice of automatically direct-messaging new Twitter followers.

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Circumventing the Conference Void

May 19, 2009 Knowledge

Let’s face it, the economy sucks right now. Companies are running lean, laying people off, cutting travel and education expenses, and in the wake of all this, conferences are taking a beating. If you haven’t heard by now, PUBSNET has closed shop, which means all future DocTrain conferences are kaput. I’ve been hearing from others [...]

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Is email going the way of the Dodo?

May 17, 2009 QOTD

A recent exchange on a STC list, which then migrated to Twitter, has me wondering… Do you think email lists (listservs) are no longer a viable medium for information exchange? Have social networking sites and services rendered listservs redundant or archaic? I still believe that they have their place, especially where social networking sites or [...]

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Reviewing Performance Beyond Project Metrics

May 15, 2009 Management

When people think about performance reviews, especially in these days of running lean and mean, thoughts turn to quantitative project metrics. Was the deadline met? By what margin? How productive were you? But many times I’ve seen and heard that the qualitative inspection is ignored.
Let’s face it, evaluating the quantitative aspects of an employee’s job [...]

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It’s been a while

May 12, 2009 Uncategorized

Sorry I’ve been away for a while. Had some family things to deal with and then had to play catch-up on several fronts. I’ll be back to posting more content soon. In the meantime, you can follow me on Twitter @techcommdood.

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