Monthly Archives: October 2009

Monthly Archives: October 2009

Be Careful When You Automate Posting

By Howard Yermish | October 19th, 2009
When Twitterfeed made some programming changes and flooded Twitter streams with mountains of old posts, sometimes several times over, one realizes the danger of automating conversation opportunities. Seriously, how hard is it to create 140 characters. If you are posting something to your blog, you already have a good title (cut and paste) and you can create a nice short link through Bit.ly to track the number of clicks. And that is the whole process, unless you add a couple of extra words as editorial.
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Pingdom and the Falling Sky

By Howard Yermish | October 13th, 2009
From time to time (okay, all of the time) I try out new web services. Some are useful, some are quirky, some are life changing and some are awful. A couple of days ago, I decided to give Pingdom a try. Pingdom is a service that monitors the uptime and performance of your website.
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By the Track and the B-Side

By Howard Yermish | October 10th, 2009
The record labels are trying to figure out ways to sell more while the consumers like being able to buy single tracks. The answer is in the old 45 single with an extra digital twist.
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Hide Facebook Application Junk

By Howard Yermish | October 9th, 2009
If you are annoyed by all of the application junk clogging up your Facebook News Feed, I'm here with a little Roadside Assistance for the Information Superhighway.
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Initial Experience with Bamboo Pen & Touch

By Howard Yermish | October 8th, 2009
When Wacom announced the new Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet, I was very eager to get my hands on the product. This was to be the perfect enhancement to my MacBook Pro setup at the desk where I already have a great external keyboard and a tolerable mouse. My goal was to have the multitouch that I love so much on the laptop alone extend to the desktop setup and replace the mouse.
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Choosing to Participate

By Howard Yermish | October 6th, 2009
There are certain principles in social networks that people in business need to understand. Many of these are what I often refer to as "Attack of the Obvious" but there is one in particular that I see intelligent people try to resist. "You don't get to choose whether people talk about you or not, but you can choose to be part of the conversation."
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Congratulations to Friends on the Philadelphia 100

By Howard Yermish | October 2nd, 2009
Just wanted to congratulate my friends Jeff Backal of Team Builders Plus (#45) and Anthony Mongeluzo of Pro Computer Service (#70) for being among the fastest-growing privately held companies in the Philadelphia area.
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New Profile Organizer from LinkedIn

By Howard Yermish | October 2nd, 2009
For those of you that are active on LinkedIn, check out it's new profile organizer functionality. This new feature is only available for paid accounts, although they are offering a free one-month trial. Adding some basic CRM functionality to LinkedIn is not quite what I would have expected. However, LinkedIn wants its users to spend more time on the network.
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