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Teaching, Giving Back, and Why My Mother Pat Dessi is the Best Human Being I know
This is a monumental year for our family. This year, my mother Pat Dessi will retire from her chosen profession as an educator.
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Are We Too Obsessed with Facebook?
Yesterday, Mashable posted a phenomenal info-graphic that I thought I’d share with you. What’s fascinating to me isn’t just the statistics about users who have profiles on Facebook. The more exciting information has to do with what we’re doing with Facebook, and just how ingrained into our society the site has become. I’ve mentioned in the past how exciting it is that there are 500million Facebook users globally, but the real key to why Facebook has such an astronomical valuation deals with the idea that of those 500 million 250million log in each day. Facebook has become as much of our daily lives as checking our email.
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More Social Media for Beginners: 4 Tips on Blogging
After a phenomenal response from last week series regarding social media for beginners, I thought I’d take the next step to help usher you along to success in social media. Today, I’d like to touch base on next steps for blogging.
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Social Media for Beginners: What to Blog About?
After receiving such amazing feedback regarding last weeks five part series for beginners in social media, I felt that I would continue to build on the manner in which business owners can find topics to blog about.
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Social Media for Beginners: Ten Tips to Get Started
Happy Friday everyone! This is the fifth and final installment of a week long tutorial on the basics of social media. I thought it would be appropriate to offer a final recap of all content covered, along with some final food for thought.
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An Open Letter to My Unborn Daughter
Dear Olivia,
Tomorrow we finally get to meet you. I want you to know a few things before we meet:
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Hugh Hefner Announces Engagement on Twitter
Whether you think Hugh Hefner is a dirty old man, or a Hero to every red blooded male, you have to take note of his recent engagement to playmate Crystal Harris.
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How Pandora Radio is Leveraging the Power of Twitter: A Case Study
On December 13th I was working away, listening to my ipod when I realized that I was sick of my music. I decided to check out the servicePandora.
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8 percent of Online Americans use Twitter
About 7 days ago Suzanne Choney of Technolog on MSNBC posted some interesting findings regarding American’s use of Twitter. I have a tendency to focus most of my blogging energy these days on Facebook, so after reading Suzanne’s piece I thought I’d throw a little love toward my favorite micro-blogging platform. The reality is that I use Twitter just as much, if not more than I use Facebook. I’m certainly a “power-user” of both technologies, but the stats that Choney posted were fascinating.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Time Magazine Person of the Year 2010
This morning I was asked by a Donna Sweeney a producer at Fox 5 to come into the studio tonight at 5pm and chat about Mark Zuckerberg being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2010.
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