54 hours to send out ideas, join a group, create a product and then present it – welcome to Startup Weekend. When I heard about it I decided to sign up because it sounded like a lot of fun. I’ve worked in many a startup and I always loved the frantic pace of crunch time [...]
Back in the day I was the Director of Customer Relations for a group of internet casinos. I managed the Customer Service team and basically anything that went in front of a customer. All marketing was approved by me as I wrote all of the Terms and Conditions and was intimately aware of what happened [...]
A month ago I gave a lecture on crisis management at the e-10 conference. It was a tale of two cases. The Tylenol Cyanide case where 7 people died in 1982 in Chicago after bottles were tampered with and returned to the shelves and the Israeli Remedia case in 2003 where 6 babies died because [...]
I write a lot about Twitter because it’s one of my main networking tools for both Abel Communications and my side project – Tchochkes. As you probably know by now Twitter has a List Feature in Beta. The List feature is interesting for 2 main points:
You can see how people view you by what lists [...]
I know Rochelle from my last trip home. She and I hit it off really well and I think she’s just fab. This post is spot on. Enjoy.
All the reasons why Social Media should not be ignored.
Yesterday I chatted with my friend Jeff who has a company that raises money for charities. He was making the decision on whether he should spend budget money on social media or a new high-end sales person. Granted, the cost of social media is significantly less than a high-end sales person, but there was only [...]
How to Twitter presentation with the reasons why a company should Twitter and how to go about doing so.
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Posted Friday, September 18th, 2009 by Joe Leech
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As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last 6 years [...]
Yes, I got my Wave invite. If you don’t know what Google Wave is – then you have no idea how big of a deal this is.
Google sent out 100,000 invites to use their new tool – Google Wave (what is Wave? I’ll get to that in a minute). Out of this 100,000 people (of [...]
