You’ve been running all year.  Meeting to meeting.  Client to client.  And finally you reach the middle of December and everything stops.  Budgets are maxed out.  Decision-makers and account staff are taking some days off before Christmas and New Years.  And you are trying to get year-end bookkeeping wrapped up. But somewhere in the next

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Youtube.com has made stars out of everyday folks for many, many years now.  We watched the Evolution of Dance, Leeroy Jenkins!, the Grape Stomping Lady, and the Star Wars Kid get passed around social circles at lightening speed, providing instant entertainment and distraction from work. And while most of these people don’t push fame past

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If you’ve been following me on Twitter or Facebook the last few days, you’re probably aware that I’ve had a very negative customer service experience lately. I’m not proud of the rants this little episode sparked, but coming from a very diverse customer service background that includes call centers, retail and social media, I was

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The 24-hour news stations and explosion of social media news sharing means that there’s never really a time without breaking news.  But in reality, some news days are completely dull, filled with droning financial news and the latest political drivel while other days are filled with flashy scandals and big announcements… perfect fodder for social

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So how’s your stock portfolio? If it’s anything like mine, we both need to start answering some of those get-rich-at-home ads you see on late night television.  You know the ones.  ”I was $90,000 in credit card debt and now I’m driving a Corvette and going to Disneyland!” Well believe it or not, those plans

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As usual, most great ideas I hear about social media come from Chris Brogan. No wonder he was named the #1 small business social media mogul by Dunn and Bradstreet in a Wall Street Journal article a few days ago. But I’m not here to talk about Chris as much as I am here to

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Update (5/3/2011)  - Charts showing the Twitter traffic before, during and after the announcement. On this particular blog, this is post #100.   Usually that would be cause for celebration, but given the announcements made on 5/1/2011, it pales in comparision. As you have no doubt heard, read, or have seen, President Obama announced to

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Social media is becoming an important tactic in the total marketing strategy for many companies around the world.  As a result, there’s a huge rush to fill those positions with qualified people. So it seemed only natural that BeBizzy Consulting would provide a way for businesses and job searchers could find each other. Jobs.BeBizzy.com was

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