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I noticed a new LinkedIn App today, LinkedIn Polls! I’m excited about the possibilities that come with the LinkedIn polls. I can see this being a great tool for market research and learning, or even just for having some fun with your network. I worry though, will this just turn into another form of LinkedIn [...]

I read a disturbing, but not too surprising blog this morning by Virginia Nussey over at the Bruce Clay blog. Scary Findings Show that SEO is Misunderstood, Now What? Virginia was commenting on the Practical eCommerce Survey of the Month SEO is Both Important and Misunderstood. What Practical eCommerce found is that 94 percent of [...]

I’ve been working with Visitor Track lately to see what companies are coming to a Website I manage. Its an incredibly handy little tool that shows me entire visits, what company the visit came from, and even what location. I can quickly look up the visiting company in Jigsaw or the Yellow Pages if I [...]

Like I mentioned in my last post, I’m fairly picky about who I follow on Twitter, this is especially true when it comes to companies. I find that following a company on Twitter is generally more annoying than it is useful. This is a real shame both for consumers and the businesses who abuse Twitter. [...]

This year rather than come up with 4 or 5 things I want to start doing in my life beginning on January first (and probably ending somewhere around the 15th or so),  I decided to focus instead on a set of New Year’s Evolutions. Ways to continue growing and bettering a few parts of my [...]

Its a scary time to start a business, find a job, make a change, move out of your comfort zone. I think every day how scary it is to put myself out there, risk failure, possibly make a mistake. Sometimes, I find it hard to be brave. Then I see something like this. A Palestinian [...]

On Monday a coworker sent the following quote to me: Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare I’m not sure who said it or where it came from, but its certainly great advice. How many colleagues, friends, companies, leaders do we all know that either fail to act or act [...]

DFWAUG Meeting – Welcome to CS4! Start: 10/18/2008 – 11:00am End: 10/18/2008 – 1:00pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Come join us for pizza and a look at what’s new in CS4! As usual, we will meet at Nerdbooks (1681 Firman Drive, Richardson, TX). This location also acts as a Labrador rescue. Please be aware that there will [...]

Effective Dashboard Design Practical tools and examples for your next dashboard project As enterprises and other organizations look to sift through and make sense of the all the structured and unstructured data available to them, dashboards are being positioned as the solution to their problems. However, a dashboard needs special attention to the visual design [...]

I just read the latest blog from Seth Godin where he posed a few simple questions to make us all think about our own productivity and general web-competence. This got me thinking about how the upper ranks of a technology/SaaS/Web company would respond to the questions. Just how many of the tasks could a VP [...]