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My Simple Advice to Protect Your Twitter Reputation

Okay, this is wrong on so many levels: another hacked Twitter account.

Since the Twitter spam seems to be getting out of control, here are a few basic rules:

Don’t have a s***ty password.
Change your password occasionally.
Don’t click on suspicious links.
Don’t enter your password after clicking a link.
No, it WASN’T you.
No, he’s NOT 24, female OR horny.
No, [...]

5 Things I Hate About Twitter

To say I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter doesn’t even scratch the surface. I find the tool itself to be fascinating, useful and a focus of my day. But it’s also frustrating. As it approaches the tipping point of becoming a mass media I get the same feeling from it that I got from [...]

Stop, Look and Listen: Your Customers are Everywhere

“My customers aren’t on Twitter.”

I hear that a lot. And not just about Twitter, but replace “Twitter” with just about any social networking tool and you get the idea. However, these assumptions are pretty dangerous.

Taking a break from working on the job.

Let’s look at general contractors and construction workers who build skyscrapers and state-of-the-art [...]