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Blogging: 10 Things To Do with A Bad Headline

by Tim Berry on July 2, 2009

in Weblogs, Writing

I thought it was one of my better posts ever on Huffington, A Great Debate About Ideas, because it covered something really important — the battle of free vs. not — and tied Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, and Ellen Goodman together.
But it wasn’t, it turns out, because of a dull deadline. Maybe I [...]

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Twitter Pitter Patter Twop: Hating Twitter.

by Tim Berry on June 12, 2009

in Current Affairs, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing

I like Twitter and I use it a lot, but really, I don’t care if you do, or if anybody else does. And I don’t get why people seem offended by it, but they do, a lot. What’s up with that? Is it politics or religion? Defensiveness maybe?
For example, this rant appeared as a comment [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 4: You Have to Like Writing

by Tim Berry on May 8, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Blogs and blogging, Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing

True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood.
I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost column, [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 3: Is It Good Business?

by Tim Berry on May 7, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Business Strategy, Marketing, Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs

A nice person almost apologized to me for not having her business on Facebook. I said: “but why?”
Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of that “social media stuff” may or may not be good business. But not just for its own sake. It has to be part of a strategy.
Otherwise, it may or may [...]

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Boomer Business Blogger Part 2: It’s A Full-time Job

by Tim Berry on May 6, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Blogs and blogging, Social media, Weblogs, Writing

Benjamin Floyd of Read Click Done asked me after yesterday’s post: “how do you do it?” Two books, 1400 or so posts, 1300 or so tweets in the last two years. “Where do you find the time.”
Fair question. Reminds me of Bob Sutton’s Really, I Write it Myself. So do I. Bob thanks his editors, [...]

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Dan Schawbel, Me 2.0, and Personal Branding

by Tim Berry on April 7, 2009

in Books, Business plan marathon, Social media, Weblogs

What does personal branding mean to you?
To me it used to be about well-known experts whose names became brands in an almost-traditional business sense: Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin, Tom Peters; they were experts whose names sold books and speaking engagements. Lately my view of personal branding has expanded as I start following John Jantsch, Anita [...]

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The New Web: Your Money or Your Life

by Tim Berry on March 17, 2009

in Reflections, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing

Your thoughts, your pictures, your daily life … maybe it’s your journal, or your diary. Do you own it? Should you? Facebook backed down last month when people said its user agreement gave it ownership of users’ pictures. Anita Campbell…

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Richard’s New Rules and Page View Paradox

by Tim Berry on January 30, 2009

in Reflections, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Now here’s a good rule to live by: 1) Do unto others as you would have them announce to 100,000 people you have done. I had seen this one a couple of days ago on the Huffington Post, part of…

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Down the Social Media Rabbit Hole

by Tim Berry on January 26, 2009

in Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing

Last week John Jantsch posted My Social Media System, detailing his twice-daily, daily, weekly, and monthly routines in blogging, twitter, and so on. In email he asked me (and several others) to join in: I would love it if you…

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Valuation Questions, Web 2.0, Real World

by Tim Berry on January 6, 2009

in Venture Capital, Weblogs

I think valuation is fascinating. What is a company worth? With the larger publicly traded companies you can easily calculate a valuation using the wisdom of the crowd, the market itself, by multiplying shares outstanding times price per share. But…

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