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Now Available in Real Time: Spam!

March 15, 2010 by Andy Beal with 120 views

Yep, now you can have spam delivered in real time to your search results on Google or Twitter. This is just why we all clapped for joy when Bing and Google hooked up with Twitter for real time results, isn’t it? Oh, no? Hm. I guess we’re not the only ones. Search Engine Roundtable noted a Webmaster World forum thread complaining about... [read more]

Spam is not Marketing Content

September 15, 2009 by Ardath Albee with 501 views

Okay, I've had about enough of this mindless, self-serving, me-me-me focused spamming. It was bad enough when it happened via email. Now it's happening with alarming frequency on LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogs. Can't people restrain themselves? Do they really think that pelting people with irrelevant messaging is going to help their cause... [read more]

An Example of Failing At Marketing Using Twitter

August 19, 2009 by Brad Feld with 115 views

I don’t know who’s managing the District 9 twitter marketing campaign, but their abuse of twitter (via their creation of Twam – “twitter spam”) just caused me to decide not to go see the movie tonight. Here’s the history of the experience. On August 15th, I tweeted “has anyone seen District 9?  Worth it?” I got a handful of... [read more]

More Follow-up to Our Enterprise 2.0 Conference Panel on Twitter and Business Panel

June 29, 2009 by Bill Ives with 104 views

Thanks to all the people who came to our session at Enterprise 2.0 Conference on business uses of Twitter, How Twitter Changes Everything. My panel co-participants include Jessica Lipnack, CEO, NetAge (our moderator); Isaac Garcia, CEO, Central Desktop; Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era; and my fellow AppGap blogger, Patti Anklam... [read more]

The Twitter Noise Ratio

June 1, 2009 by swanwick with 100 views

Whereas with email the SPAMMER needs to specifically target you and therefore the SPAM is clearly intentional, with Twitter it just gets broadcasted into the Twitter ether. If you happen to be following the SPAMMER, you see the tweet. Someone you follow might be putting out some really good posts and some really SPAM-like posts. Since,... [read more]

Becoming Master & Commander of your Inbox

November 13, 2007 by Kelly Forrister with 45 views

While GTD can apply to nearly any tool you use to manage email, I wrote an article addressed for you BlackBerry(R) users out there. It's about how to become Master & Commander of your Inbox. It gives some good tips & strategies for getting email under control again and a few different ways to do that, GTD style. Read the full... [read more]

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