Twitter Updates for 2010-02-08

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 8, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • @jeffq73 – tnx for retweet! #
  • Mark Tapscott on Sarah Palin’s appeal, http://bit.ly/aTypKQ | Oh, pipe down, you Sarah-naysayers! You’re missing something in all the noise #
  • @jaketapper – my wicked side sez he doesn’t give press conferences b/c his teleprompter isn’t invited (not fair but wicked isn’t fair) #
  • @FrickinWicked – no Moosetowner, just a word-lover #
  • @jimgeraghty – MSM doesn’t get the self-organized ground-up dispersed nature of Tea Partiers; they keep looking for the string-pullers #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-07

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 7, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Nobody can convince me that I wouldn’t love to win an Apple iPad in the contest sponsored by @dreamhost, http://bit.ly/dgnbN8 #DreamHost #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-06

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 6, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • @DorianDavis – no snow. rain. that’s good for SoCal. snow in local mountains, tho – makes resort ops happy #
  • @JonahNRO – keep safe, keep warm, and leave a trail of cookie crumbs for the search-and-rescue team. #
  • Mohawks: strips and feathers: not your daddy’s dinosaurs, http://bit.ly/93gZPS | Paging Mr. T! Are gold chains far behind? #
  • @JonahNRO – what facilities? fire place? hibachi? (ventilation?) Any candles? Natural gas? Old deadtree pubs? #
  • James Bianco takes the economy’s temperature using the Super Bowl, http://bit.ly/cBSIRK | diagnosis: still sick; prognosis: slow recovery #
  • Milton Friedman defends free trade on YouTube, http://bit.ly/cBetMD #
  • A GMU undergrad video on subversive economic ideas, http://bit.ly/5vDb0i /via Don Boudreaux at Café Hayek | Funny! #
  • On my wishlist for 2010 is an Apple iPad – maybe @dreamhost will pick my name in their DreamHost Apple-a-day giveaway! http://bit.ly/dgnbN8 #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-05

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 5, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Interesting explication of non-pertinence of Miranda in Abdulmutallabl (UndieBomber) case, http://bit.ly/aMclXr #hhrs #tcot #
  • @dreamhost giving away 20 iPads, http://bit.ly/dgnbN8 | strike a blow against ersatz online argot & win an iPad from DreamHost (I want one) #
  • RT @WSJ: BREAKING: Unemployment rate falls to 9.7% from 10%. We’re live with the news at http://bit.ly/wMkKm | expected rise to 10.1?!? #
  • If unemp rate fells to 9.7%, is it b/c biz is hiring? or ppl leaving job market? #
  • David Henderson wonders who the dinosaur is: a new media writer or the old media journal that won’t publish him, http://bit.ly/bBJ6up #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-04

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 4, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Mark Tapscot thinks it’s a big mistake 4 Tea Partiers to organize a 3rd party, http://bit.ly/bQLXMG | I agree. Work for tea-dipped Rs & Ds. #
  • RT @PatrickRuffini: As @jstrevino predicted, they used the “we got your attention” excuse & “relatively inexpensive” http://is.gd/7Gs9P #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-03

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 3, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • “Removed ability to share books via USB as required by Apple.” http://bit.ly/cqu3AV | Apple sez b/c developer violated dev agreement #
  • RT @Poynter: Columnist says local [TV] news has become a faceless commodity, http://bit.ly/9urU53 /@mediaspy | I don’t watch TV news anymore #
  • RT @WSJ: Despite backlash, AIG will pay out as much as $100 million in bonuses this week http://on.wsj.com/9QWKey | can taxpayers get a cut? #
  • HT site for better internet marketing, http://bit.ly/bBCc3b | 3rd Tribe offering US$27/mo charter membership #
  • @jaketapper – will he be required to attend a re-orientation seminar? wash his mouth out with soap? quit acting like a jerk? #
  • IL primary: no run-away winner for gov for either party; Mark Kirk (R) Alexi Giannoulias (D) in Senate race http://bit.ly/9FxfP2 #ilpolitics #
  • @markknoller – I bet all the cleared walkways & driveways cost money, though! #
  • CQPolitics: Democrats claim a cash advantage over the GOP in House races, http://bit.ly/cLhsDv | Loud handwringing raises cash? #
  • More questions pls: bipartisan coalition seeks to institutionalize prez Q&A, http://bit.ly/aic4lr | website needs work… http://bit.ly/9s1oMU #
  • @PatrickRuffini – perceptive two-year-old: guys just don’t like the connotations of carrying a purse #
  • RT @EdMorrissey: Demand Question Time! Let’s push 4 more transparency and less backroom dealing #tcot http://is.gd/7CnJT A win for everyone #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-02

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 2, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • RedState sponsoring bloggers lounge at CPAC this month, http://bit.ly/bGRs30 | dang! wish I had the money to attend #
  • WSJ: cut Catholic schools loose from the parish to compete, http://bit.ly/djsF25 | I agree that vouchers are a bad route to revival #
  • RT @matthewhurtt: To those Tweeting about Congressional Districts: continuity pls? #stateabbrdistnumber, ex. #tn06 #ca08 #ny23, etc? RT pls. #
  • @markknoller – how about some taxpayers want TARP money returned to Treasury? Does Congress remember us taxpayers? #
  • Prez B Cool: “Jobs will be our #1 focus in 2010.” http://bit.ly/c9KpPr | fed govt can’t grow economy it can only get in or out of the way #
  • @markknoller – intolerance of groundhog tormenting shows your insensitivity to quaint native customs #
  • NYT graphic of federal budget deficits, http://bit.ly/akf4V2 | if you believe Prez B Cool’s budget projections, I have land for sale in CA… #
  • @MichaelTurk – they upped the number this year #
  • Rothenberg’s Dangerous D ozen Open House Seats, http://bit.ly/d0L1c7 | I’ll be watching #ks03 #ha01 #il10 #
  • NOLA coroner election: body parts for sale, http://bit.ly/bfwklV | interesting election year we’re having… #

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3 Marketing Tools To Consider For Your One-Person Business

Filed under:Marketing, Technology — posted by cehwiedel on @ 6:46 am

Eric Groves at iMedia Connection pushes three marketing tools as “must-haves” that I would be a bit less breathless over:

  1. email
  2. online surveys
  3. social media (Facebook, Twitter)
Buy at Art.com
Air Mail
Buy From Art.com

As a one-person business, you need to carefully manage your time. Rushing headlong into the use of new marketing tools could lead merely to less time for actual productive work rather than producing solid leads for that work.

Email as a form of direct marketing should be seriously considered — minimally, a client newsletter produced on a regular schedule will keep your business in the mind of your clients and provide a way for you to let them know about new products or services.

But don’t just jump in willy-nilly. Set aside a bit of time to figure out the process, from composition to transmission, so that it doesn’t eat into your time beyond its usefulness.

Online surveys and social media? Maybe, after you have your email in shape. And not before you figure out what you want to accomplish with them.

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Twitter Updates for 2010-02-01

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on February 1, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Animation of unemployment by county over time since 2007, http://bit.ly/3tpIl0 | dang! shoulda moved to NOLA for DC… #
  • Funny, sad, frustrating: Cato posts parallel quotes from O’s SOTU & Bush 43 SOTUs, http://bit.ly/cyRa5I #
  • Growth of nominal GDP may be low, but both nominal and real GDP have crawled back to black, http://bit.ly/cXN1gu #
  • Paul Volker’s NYT op-ed taken apart at Naked Capitalism, http://bit.ly/9mgIXP | structural change needed to limit govt guarantees #
  • A fix for corrupt police: break the country down 2 subsistence level, then pay once daily with food, http://bit.ly/bSziVY | working in Haiti #
  • Crowd-sourcing iPhone apps as a remedy for deceptive advertising, http://bit.ly/cacO3t #
  • iPad thoughts: new markets, not cannabilizing old; books won’t die, textbooks will; http://bit.ly/c69qQx | I still want one #
  • @joshuaculling – when researching fed aid to state govts, look for strings attached that weaken state sovereignty #
  • @Crevek – yeah, February already: got yer tax stuff pulled together yet? #
  • Philly think tank Middle East Forum is looking for a director of Islamist Watch, http://bit.ly/8XZM94 | keeping an eye on lawful Islamists #
  • Gallup: Despite a trend toward GOP, most states still lean Democratic in party affiliation, http://bit.ly/9hVPs8 #
  • Getty Images will roll out new pricing for photo subscriptions & single sales, http://bit.ly/cHtU7j | I’m watching as a stock photog #
  • NASA cuts may be a disguised blessing: get govt out of the way & allow private development of space travel #
  • Rand Simberg agrees with my assertion that cutting NASA’s budget is a good thing, http://bit.ly/aHEqDc | let the private sector soar #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-30

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 30, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • The state of California is falling apart, but its Assembly takes time to consider an annual week-long ban on bad words, http://bit.ly/d5cLl2 #
  • Hugh moose, http://bit.ly/9QyVqa | where by “huge” I mean 8 feet tall at the shoulders, maybe 12 feet at the top of its antler rack #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-29

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 29, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • @MelissaTweets – also, business has lots of slack in emps working <40 hrs & hiring temps – perm FT workers will be last hired #
  • @MelissaTweets – also, there are signs that consumers are maintaining a tight rein on spending, abt 30% less than before fit hit the shan #
  • Series of charts from Dallas Fed shows just how bad the job market is, http://bit.ly/aE4D0n | really bad but no Great Depression either #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-28

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 28, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Watching Steve Jobs keynote from yesterday — oh how much I want an iPad! #
  • Jack Bauer will return for another season of 24 just so he can download schematics and track vehicles on [the iPad], http://bit.ly/dhY0RN #
  • Rhodes Cook at Crystal Ball: For Democrats, It’s Time to Worry http://bit.ly/cGpqTQ #
  • Prez B Cool’s glass jaw: Republicans should just start laughing at [Obama] and making jokes. #
  • Prez B Cool’s glass jaw: Republicans should just start laughing at [Obama] and making jokes. http://bit.ly/ay7KGS | repeat of last tweet #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-27

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 27, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • @Genevangelist – Heavens to Betsy! I thought you were going to beat your boyfriend over the head with the tablet! ;-) #
  • Gallup: not even half of DEMOCRATS think the news media has done a good job covering Obama, http://bit.ly/9w1LIJ | that’s gotta hurt #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-26

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 26, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Rothenberg: “If Republican incumbents have problems, it will be in their primaries.” http://bit.ly/4I8P0M #
  • RT @KatMcKinley: SWEET! RT @MichelleOddis Its official. Obama-mania is over. They have closed the Obama store downstairs in Union Station #
  • RT @ocbiz: OC Register | Californians say ‘no more taxes’ http://bit.ly/6s0X14 | This should not come as a surprise… #
  • Why does MSM conflate Tea Partiers and Birthers? http://www.sacbee.com/806/story/2488785.html #

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Boomers Become Social Media Mavens

Filed under:Marketing — posted by cehwiedel on @ 7:20 am

From a new brief on the concerns of Baby Boomers from the Center for Media Research:

These Social Media Mavens have more frequent contact with individuals across all types of groups within their social network, not just family or neighbors, but issue-oriented groups and co-workers as well:

  • 73% responded ‘People often come to me for advice’
  • Not merely amassing ‘friends’ or ‘connections’ they are communicating regularly.
  • They also have more face-to-face contact and use smart phones more than other Boomers or Generation Jones respondents (78% responded ‘New technology plays an important role in my life’)
  • They are equally likely to be male as female, which defies the stereotypical female profile of the voracious social media consumer
  • Of this Social Media Maven group the majority are still working, more likely than the other segments to own their own business, most likely to engage in volunteer activity and to have the highest household income
  • Social Media Mavens are more likely to try new products, technologies and seek new experiences. They are recommenders who embrace the role of technology in their connected lives

Lori Bitter, President, Continuum Crew, concludes that “With more time being spent online, and the emergence of the new Social Media Mavens among Boomers… for companies targeting the mature consumer… online media should be at the core of an integrated marketing campaign… ”

A term new to me: “Generation Jones,” younger Boomers born between 1954 and 1964. A slightly older cohort, born between 1934 and 1945 (before the official start of the Boomer Generation following World War II), is labeled “Generation Ike.”

My husband and I are in Generation Jones. Our older siblings fall into either Generation Ike or the older Boomers.

The new Boomer social mavens come from Generation Jones.

Does it make sense for your small business to have a social media presence?

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-25

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 25, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • @dmataconis – personally? professionally? what flavor (so to speak) of shit? #
  • @hieronymus – can I add raisins & brown sugar? Yum! #
  • @markknoller – the middle class doesn’t need a presidential task force; it needs the govt mostly to get out of the way #
  • @markknoller – Prez B Cool still doesn’t get it – the middle class wants room to take care of itself not enforced federal dependence #
  • Will watch investigation of Ethiopian airliner crash after takeoff from Beirut, http://bit.ly/64s1Gm | hope it was not intentional #
  • @dmataconis – if you find a career that doesn’t have its own supply of shit, let me know so I can be jealous! #
  • @johnnyA99 – and whose hand on the spigot? #
  • Radical feminist and “thealogist” Mary Daly died recently, http://bit.ly/90MRDj | poisonous hag helped skew my early world view #
  • Bear Flag revolt? http://bit.ly/8KJYWh This article makes me lean towards Chuck DeVore over both Tom Campbell & Carly Fiorina #
  • RT @LATimesnews: Iraq executes ‘Chemical Ali,’ Saddam Hussein’s cousin http://bit.ly/7fAC2w | Judgement Day: did he get virgins or sulphur? #
  • Politico’s new Morning Score: coverage of the 2010 elections, http://bit.ly/5nbA2Y | @jimgeraghty has more competition! #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-24

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 24, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • RT @freedom4USA: California Dems seek single payer health insurance http://ff.im/-eL0B4 | Washington wilting on h/c, so CA next battleground #
  • Ouch: Michael Goodwin rips Prez B Cool in the NYP, http://bit.ly/5agDI7 | does the Prez have a hot air balloon as an escape route? #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-23

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 23, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • RT @RasmussenPoll: To solve CA budget crisis, 43% say cut spending, 28% raise taxes, 15% say file bankruptcy… http://tinyurl.com/RR1050 #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-22

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 22, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • Bravo Team of @teamrubicon needs help with transport to Haiti for 12-15 Drs, http://bit.ly/5XMoJa | money, too #hhrs #
  • @usnscomfort on station & helping in Haiti #
  • #FollowFriday: @usncomfort @teamrubicon #
  • RT @Poynter: Freedom Communications – OCR’s parent – comes out of bankruptcy in March. Lenders to own 100% of stock. http://is.gd/6NIkM #
  • @MelissaTweets – Prez B Cool pivots to jobs & the economy, having thrown Harry & Nancy under the bus; peeving people doesn’t bother him #
  • @MelissaTweets – I’m thinking he really doesn’t understand why people are peeved #
  • @MelissaTweets – he acts as tho he believes that peevishness caused by not comprehending his Grand Plan #
  • @MelissaTweets – when the reason for peevishness is that people understand his Grand Plan all too well & THEY DON’T LIKE IT #
  • USGS: 4.4 aftershock near Haiti about an hour ago, http://bit.ly/7pxieq #
  • Gallup: only 39% think Congress should continue with current h/c legislation, http://bit.ly/5ixqVz | seat Brown, then tort reform! #
  • @jimgeraghty – as with a lot of the other jobs “created or saved” the #ScottBrown position is a government job – at least not a NEW one! #
  • @allahpundit – maybe the FDIC will announce 10 bank closures to wake up the news cycle… #
  • @TrentWalton – yes, but: creatives need to be business savvy, too #
  • SoCal weather report: steady rain, no wind right now in NW OC; thunder & lightning overnight/w brief power outage #
  • @yagelski – that’s ok: Franken found another gig #
  • Rainbow visible looking NNW from northwest Orange County #
  • Roger L Simon wonders whether the iPad v. Kindle War will help writers, http://bit.ly/6TQI4u #
  • PJTV’s Trifecta team are grinning from ear to ear, http://bit.ly/87oPhF | Bill Whittle wants to see a Boxer Rebellion – I’m game! #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-01-21

Filed under:Tweets — posted by on January 21, 2010 @ 11:59 pm
  • tnx for mention @stevebuttry #
  • Heavy rain in northwest Orange County, CA: empty trash cans blow over, floating down our street. Storm drains cannot keep up with downpour. #
  • RT @littlebytesnews: RT @RES911CUE: HWY 168 Closed Due to Small Avalanche – Fresno California http://bit.ly/7sXW0j #
  • Brown’s appeal: Tea parties, it seems, do better with a side of civility. http://bit.ly/56wizu | Tea Partiers HAVE been civil & polite. #
  • Why is John Edwards news anymore? http://bit.ly/5TAguu #
  • NYP via InstaPundit: “The Tea Party folks kept on organizing.” http://bit.ly/7rugcj | Tea Partiers are doers not whiners. #
  • KS state sovereignty & US 10th Amendment restoration hearing, http://bit.ly/6OLb9z | KS & MA together in declaring independence #
  • @markknoller – O is pivoting to jobs & economy, cutting h/c loose in the wake of SB’s MA victory? Reid, Pelosi: under the bus! #
  • Gallup: Americans most biased against Muslims, http://bit.ly/64mwkt | duh: Buddhists aren’t trying to exterminate us as an article of faith. #
  • Sabato: “the possibility for a GOP majority can no longer be dismissed out of hand,” http://bit.ly/6EETa4 | bring on the Boxer Rebellion! #
  • SCOTUSblog: limits lifted on corporate independent donations to political campaigns, http://bit.ly/5Z6Qy0 #
  • pdf of SCOTUS opinion on corporate independent political donations: http://bit.ly/8itnFm | server overburdened – be patient or persistent #
  • Die, BCRA, die! SCOTUS ruling overturns Austin: “The restrictions thus function as the equivalent of a prior restraint” #
  • Bench Memos analyzes latest SCOTUS ruling invalidating chunk of BCRA, http://bit.ly/7wX36u | die, BCRA, die! #
  • Mark the date: moneybomb for Marco (Rubio), candidate for US Senate in FL, on Feb 10th http://bit.ly/5BKFmO | $5.3k towards $100k already #
  • Solid interview of Michael Barone by Glenn Reynolds, http://bit.ly/7mMHO8 | analysis of politics post-Brown #
  • @EdMorrissey – from your mouth to God’s ear: Boxer Rebellion! #

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