There’s something strangely addictive and alluring about Twitter.
On the surface it’s nothing more than a glorified service for typing short text messages that answer the question “What are you doing?”
Ahh, but dig a little deeper, and the marketing lightbulbs should start buzzing inside your brain:

You can build a network of friends — I’m already up […]

Tell me that this hasn’t happened to you before …
You’re driving to work and listening to one of your favorite podcasts. The host makes a particular cogent point that has you nodding enthusiastically in agreement, or, perhaps, a not-so-convincing statement that has you fuming in disgust. Either way, you just have to send […]

My “New Comm Road Map” segment for episode 25 of New Comm Road focused on creating a wiki — specifically, one using the PBwiki platform — for your event or project, in response to an audio question from Anna Farmery, host of the Engaging Brand podcast.
Part of my research for that segment included creating a […]

Creating a wiki with PBwiki.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from historic Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Monday, February 12, 2007.
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… when he doesn’t have his voice.
While a nasty cold and sore throat hasn’t stopped me from blogging this week, it has put my plans for producing a new episode of New Comm Road on hold — at least temporarily. Hope to be back up and running in the next few days. Thanks for […]

Does this video from the Ted2006 conference demonstrate how we could be using the personal computer in the near future?

You can also check out video of the more complete presentation made by Jeff Han.
So how long until this technological potential becomes a reality for all of us?
Tip of the keyboard to Dan York.
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This is a truism for me and every other podcaster I’ve ever met: we like nothing better than hearing from our listeners.
It’s always a thrill when someone new drops us a line by e-mail, via a comment on our podcast blog, or by phoning in an audio comment. Or, such as happened […]

In my college days — you know, way back in the 1990s — my friends and I would say “peep this” when playing some new music for each other … in other words: “Check this out.”
So, here’s the song “You Said” from the Podsafe Music Network that I heard on Episode 210 of For Immediate […]

 

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I don’t like doing the dishes. Do you? Somehow, I’m just so darn slow at it, to the extent that washing up after a simple meal can take me as much as 30 minutes. But one of the best ways I have found to make this task a little less painful is to listen to […]

A few months ago I was speaking with an HR manager at an agency in New York who was on the hunt for a seasoned PR pro with skills in the social-media space.
My advice to him? Make your pitch by advertising on a podcast, particularly one where the show’s audience is tuned into both social […]

 

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