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I've moved to my own domain: http://chrisenglund.com 

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I'm confident you'll enjoy learning about Social Media from Marta Kagan.  This slide deck is a long time favorite of mine.  If only ever professor in business school taught like this... What The F**K is Social Media? View more presentations from Marta Kagan.

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This post is dedicated to something I discovered just a few days ago from Merlin Mann on 43folders.  I frequently use TextEdit on the Mac as a quick and simple app that's great for taking notes.  I write down my day's to-do's and I scribe notes from phone calls I have.  As everyone who knows me agrees, I have a bad memory, so I've learned to write it all down.  TextEdit fails where it comes to

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Following news has come along way since Usenet.  The economics of more users using the web to share more content means an exponential multiplying of information.  It's understandably hard to sift through the clutter and stay abreast of important developments.  And if you follow Technorati's annual State of the Blogosphere, your head is spinning. That's why I use Google Reader to sift through it

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StumbleUpon rewards good content with prestige and traffic. As I slowly progress through Overdrive Interactive's social media map, I developed a new addiction: StumbleUpon and became a bonafide stumbler.  It's really going to change how I view driving site traffic.  The best results, for your interests, are determined by the crowd who chooses to like, or not, your site and content.  It's a

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In case you're looking to improve your Internet IQ, check out these two beautifully cluttered documents from digital agency Overdrive Interactive.  The maps include hundreds of sites, many that you know, and even more that you should know.  There are some important non-US players listed here.  And, it's an all around good checklist to make sure you're up on the latest in social media sites and

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I've been thinking about ways the internet can serve the relief efforts in Haiti.  This stems from participation on Wired Magazine's Haiti Rewired Forum which is exploring this exact question.  I recently blogged there about the best tasks that could be sourced to web users.  I believe the best would be: • small - manageable for lower involvement • delimited - easily defined start and end •

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A recent obsession of mine are infographics.  They seem to be popping up everywhere in my favorite blogs.  And I recommend you take a look at two of my favorite info-graphic-artists David McCandless and Neil Freeman.  Their sites, Information is Beautiful and Fake is the New Real, are two fine examples of how information can best be processed when it's a beautiful visual. Stop here, check them

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The interwebs were all a twitter for the last several weeks up to what Steve Jobs called one of the most important things he's ever done.  (Luckily my RSS feeds have calmed down, and I stopped receiving the usual 35 Apple tablet-related posts an hour.) The iPad is very, very similar to the iPhone and will likely run a bunch of the same applications.  (At least this time, Apple admits it won't

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I'm an MBA, I can't deny that I love a good buzz word, matrix or framework when I find one.  As a technologist, Web 2.0 has to be one of the greatest.  It's an emotional term that evokes user generated content, collaboration and involvement.  Of course, 2.0 is better than 1.0, so naturally Web 2.0 is just really the best thing when it comes to any web site.  Right? As it would seem to some, such

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Augmented Reality as a marketing tool, is it a fad?  Is it just more over hyped vaporware for us to mess around with, shrug our shoulders and spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to remove it from our computer? If you follow the blogging on Advertising Age, you might be quick to toss aside this incredible marketing potential and wait until its just better put together.  The

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If you're like me, you're searching for a job.  It likely goes without saying, there are hundreds of job boards online.  You may be using LinkedIn to the best of your ability.  And you've gone overboard by searching on some specialized sites for your industry, your university or your country.  The search is overwhelming and this can be quite overwhelming. Had God of the Internet, created a way

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In "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson details the evolution of free, as a price for a product. Bits can be reproduced at a marginal cost of zero, as long as we agree on the infinitely fast decreasing cost of bandwidth and storage. Free isn't the same as cross-subsidized: you get the coffee pot for free with a subscription to a coffee of the month service

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They say gay marriage won't affect straight people, so straight people ought to just be quiet about the whole thing. But, with all of this talk on the spiraling fireball of disaster that is the US economy, I thought it'd be fun to look at how gay marriage just might affect us all, and quite nicely in fact! Enter the report "Love Counts: The Economic Benefits of Marriage Equality for New York,"

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