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6 key ways to improve your email communication

I love email, I really love it. Email is a simple communication medium that creates a historical record and is dead-simple to manage (if you’re a Gmail user). I use email as much as possible and prefer it over pretty much any communication method besides meeting face-to-face. Having said that, it’s terribly easy to use [...]

Traditional networking is dead

I think I’ve found my calling: exchanging ideas and talking them through. What’s that pay nowadays? I always like sharing my interactions with people here on my blog. Partly because it adds a really human side to my business and shows prospective clients that I’m more than just an email address. The main reason, though, [...]

Succeed by Finding Your Audience

Many people tell me that their website costs more than it brings in. For many, this is just a fact of life and their site becomes a bill to pay like a cell phone. If your site is commercial in nature, however, this is no way to go about your technological life. I want to [...]

Is having your own website a dated concept

For the record, this is one of the reasons I find immense value in Twitter: exposure to a broad range of opinions on an equally broad range of topics. Since this particular option pertained to what I do, I figured I’d chime in. Tweet in question: Holy crap, I hope not! There goes an income [...]

How I explained WTF Twitter is to my Dad

My dad and I have been working on a plan for a website to promote his business valuation report for a few months now. We’ve decided on a structure and plan and we’re ready to move forward. During this conversation, the topic of how to market and promote the site came up. Dad has already [...]

3/23/2009

by: Josh

posted in: professional networking, social technology

Using the social technologies of the web effectively while staying out of trouble

I’ve been using LinkedIn more and more these days on the recommendation of two people I’m currently working with. Part of what makes LinkedIn such a great networking tool is it’s active set of groups, each with their own discussion board. The conversation is great, the information is top-notch, and people are so ready and [...]

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