Monthly Archives: August 2009
Save the Date: Social Networks for Busy Professionals
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in the morning. I’ll be presenting my new seminar, Social Networks for Busy Professionals. The seminar is presented along with the Philadelphia Business Journal and will be held at Bowman & Company in Voorhees, New Jersey. More details are on the way so stay tuned…
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Would Google Voice be Approved If?
After reading the different statements to the FCC by Apple, AT&T and Google, I started wondering. Would the Google Voice application be approved for the iPod Touch? The same application on a device without the phone would still be very useful. The feature overlap is on the iPhone, not on the iPod Touch. It doesn't turn the iPod Touch into a phone, just a way to manage the Google Voice service.
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Quick Tutorial: Make Your Facebook Page Update Twitter
Facebook recently released a new feature that allows Facebook Pages (not profiles) post updates directly to Twitter. So if you have a page on Facebook and a Twitter account, watch the 2 minute video below for a quick demonstration. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Here are the basic [...]
Tips for Writing on the Web
Read the following article now if you write on the web. 20 Tips on How to Write for the Web One of my favorites is the “one space after a period” rule. In HTML, two spaces in code are condensed to a single space. Now it is a writing convention. And my second favorite is [...]
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Piano Mover
The original purpose of “Piano Inside My Brain” was to have a place to blog that wasn’t affiliated with my former employer. At the time, this domain (howardyermish.com) was hosted on with my former employer and I wanted a place to experiment that wasn’t under company control. (The reality was that I didn’t want to [...]
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The Big Move
Well, I had been meaning to centralize things in more of a “life stream” format. Today was the day that I finally decided to take the afternoon and flip the switch. So over the next few days I’ll hopefully get everything configured properly so that all of the website goodness is back in gear. Thanks [...]
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Drinking from the Fire Hydrant
Social networks can devour your day before you realize it. I’ve heard from some people that they need to, “catch up on all of the Facebook posts,” or “read all of the latest tweets on Twitter.” No wonder they feel overwhelmed. Here are two quick tips to make this simpler. Don’t Try to Drink from [...]
Love Those Banned Apps
I’ll admit it, I’m an Apple fanboy. But the last couple of moves make me angry. At first, I was really cheesed about what Amazon did concerning removing books from the Kindle. But their apology is a demonstration that they have taken responsibility for their actions and learned a little something along the way. A [...]
First Two Weeks With The MiFi