From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Girls in Tech NYC Entrepreneurship and Venture Panel

May 28, 2010
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Last night, I attended the Girls in Tech NYC Entrepreneurship and Venture Series Kick-Off at Dogpatch Labs in New York City. Founded in 2007, Girls in Tech NYC is a networking group dedicated to bringing together and empowering females in the tech industry. The panelists were successful and powerful entrepreneurs.

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Make Sure the Concrete Is Dry

May 27, 2010
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A lot of companies use metaphors to describe their products and/or services. They have grand philosophies about their methodologies, the ways they interact with customers, and their commitment to quality and excellence. Blah, blah, blah. Let’s get to the point.

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Would Picasso Have a Twitter Account?

May 26, 2010
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The real work on those stories happened offline, during long hours of solitude and intense concentration. Sure, I realize that my manuscript is not yet complete and could stand many more revisions, but I was happy to share what I had, to come out of the “darkness” and see the light.

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5 “Internetized” Idioms

May 25, 2010
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New mediums mean that we need new ways to describe and talk about them. I take five common idioms related to communication and translate them for the Internet age: “spread like wildfire”; “put in a nutshell”; “be on the same wavelength”; “bite your tongue”; and “keep you posted”.

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Why People Are Leaving Your Fan Page

May 24, 2010
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Some businesses are just now beginning to market themselves on Facebook. Well, it might be too late to begin those efforts. Lately, Facebook users have been a lot more picky about the pages they choose to “like” because of the way that these pages become linked to their profiles.

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At Least Facebook Has a Privacy Policy

May 20, 2010
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Over the years, our judicial system has taken many steps to ensure that public libraries protect the reader’s privacy. Libraries store very little information about their patrons, and “In many states, violating a public library reading record statute is a misdemeanor criminal violation”.

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I’m Not Done Talking, but You Can Stop Listening

May 19, 2010
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Do you ever get the sense that someone has stopped listening to you, but you don’t even care because you need to get whatever you want to say out of your system? Have you ever sent someone approximately 48 text messages in the middle of the night, even though you knew that person was sleeping?

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Facebook, I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down

May 18, 2010
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The time I first found out about Facebook, I was eighteen years old, in spring, oh-four. How could I know this site would be a hook distracting me from papers, tests galore? Six years later, I found myself with plus or minus seven-hundred friends, a news feed full of pics.

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When You Can’t Please Everyone, Please Yourself

May 17, 2010
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The Internet can make you believe that you have a potentially limitless readership, but that concept is simply a false lure that can mess with your ability to produce quality work. Some people succumb to greed, others to lust; don’t be the one who breaks under the weight of wanting to be an Internet celebrity.

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