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Archive for December, 2010

Over the Christmas holiday, while many families are nestling children into beds and stuffing stockings, many kids probably think that the North Pole is the greatest place on earth to be a kid. In reality, aside from the below-freezing temperatures and the non-stop manufacturing of toys, I can’t imagine the North Pole being fun for [...]

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It all started with a Social Media Today blog post about how great Ben & Jerry’s was doing social. Actually, it even started before that with a Foursquare check-in. Here’s the story… Upon Barb and I moving to the lovely and small town of Kenosha, we began exploring some of the local restaurants and I [...]

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Not another freaking list! I wanted to get this post out far enough out from Christmas so that I wouldn’t seem cantankerous for the holidays. I woke up this morning to a virtual avalanche (again) of posts on blogs, LinkedIn group posts, and RSS feeds packed with articles bearing titles like “14 Ways to Make [...]

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There’s been a great deal of press lately about a company who was exploiting the Google algorithm by encouraging users to write bad reviews because it helped them ride in the rankings. When I read the New York Times article about it, I was angered by the blatant exploitation of what I consider to be [...]

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