A few days ago I went into my favorite local wine store to replenish the old wine cellar. OK. So I don’t have a wine cellar. I have a cabinet in my kitchen next to my refrigerator where we keep the booze but I love going to the wine store because even though I...
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Michael T. Hanley is a CPA with a good grasp of the use of social media and communications. I wrote a blog post recently about his use of email communication and recently we spoke by email about being what he calls an Accountant 2.0. You don’t see many Accountants getting excited about social media,...
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By Lon S. Cohen I read an article today on Mashable on the truth about the average Twitter user. Seems that only 21% of Twitter accounts are considered active by the criteria in a study from security firm Barracuda Labs. Ben Parr reports in the post that they “looked at around 19 million Twitter...
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By Lon S. Cohen You see it all the time. A new job listing pops up seeking someone to fill a social media position. In the details it says that the company is not looking to hire a true professional but… an intern. Some may offer the carrot of possible full time employment. Nothing...
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Well it looks like Google sure named this product right. Buzz is the word about it. But I wonder. It’s definitely got the built-in user base to it. Very smart attaching it to Gmail. My Dad who uses Gmail might test Google Buzz but would probably have found no use for Twitter. Only because...
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Real time search is the order of the day. Google has already incorporated an algorithm to serve up tweets in search results. A number of companies are salivating at the data that can be amassed from real time search. Here are some ways real time is being either applied by an industry in a...
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