Where I’ll Be (in non-avatar mode)

It’s going to be a busy spring. One event I was not planning on attending is now on the agenda; another two possible events are now non-happenings. So, if you’d like to meet in real life, here’s where I’ll be over the next few months:
Masie Center’s Social Learning Lab, Saratoga Springs, NY, March 11-12
This will [...]

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From deep in the heart of Texas, the sun has risen on Five in the Morning for Friday. Cam Beck, he of Chaos Scenario blogging fame, has taken the reigns today to point us to 5 Friday posts – thanks, Cam!
Cam is one of the those bloggers that I’ve had the privilege to meet in [...]

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Five in the Morning decamped from NJ today to take a quick visit to none other than IOWA. Mike Sansone, that partriarch of Mid-America bloggers, that mentor of many, Chief Conductor at the Conversation Station and Founder of PaneraU, volunteered to find us five gems this morning. Go and see.
Mike is one of nicest guys [...]

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Seth Godin, on the milestone of his 3,000th blog posts, considers himself the “luckiest guy” – and, lets everyone know that the first 2,500 are the hardest! If you like what he does, send him a note of congratulations (seth at squidoo dot com).
Marketing Basics: Conversation. An excellent summary and set of links from that [...]

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This morning, let’s talk a little bit about ego, selling, and success…
How to Sell with a Clear Conscience – This is great stuff to mull over if you’re involved in selling in any way. It took me many years to grasp my selling “style”. From the Men with Pens blog.
Self-Promotion Reluctance – Karen Swim explores [...]

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Ten in the Morning 022009

Five in the Morning gets super-sized today – we have 2 guest-bloggers contributing posts, to make it Ten in the Morning (some of you late sleepers really like this thought…!)
First up, some posts from the usual geographical area of north Jersey – but guest-hosted by blogging colleague CB Whittemore. One of my favorite people whom [...]

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After Hours Friday

Endless Interestingness – an endless collage of images pulled from Flickr. Cool idea. Hat tip: Guy Kawasaki.
The Crisis of Credit visualized. What happened to our financial markets? This simple, entertaining, and informative animation explains the blow up. Well worth a few minutes of your time. Hat tip: David Armano.
The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. Fun [...]

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Can you help me try something new?

With this request, I’m seriously going to eat my own dog food. Let me explain.
I’ve got two parallel networking endeavors going. One pays the bills – that’s my pharmaceutical consultancy (Impactiviti), through which I help pharmaceutical clients find ideal vendor/partners (mostly for sales training). My business model: I’m the walking eHarmony of pharma outsourcing!
The parallel [...]

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Seriously Impressed: HootSuite

I will be the first to admit that when it comes to software/services and user design, I’m very hard to please. Chalk it up to years of wrestling with software from all the way back in the early DOS days to the bleeding-edge present – AND from working with technology and software development firms.
So when [...]

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Before we begin, may I just take a moment and say how much I enjoy interacting with you, my readers, in these early-morning excursions through the blogosphere? It’s fun to find a few goodies each day (so much to choose from!), but it’s even more fun to dialogue with you about stuff you found helpful [...]

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25 “Hidden” Things in Facebook TOS

It’s been all the rage this week. Facebook changed their Terms of Service/Terms of Use (TOS for short) to imply that they own, perpetually, anything and everything that you post on their site.
After much uproar, Facebook has relented and gone back to the “old” TOS. Or have they? Hidden in the new/old TOS, in white [...]

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“And now for something completely different…” – a Connecticut filmmaker guest-hosts Five in the Morning. Blogging buddy Thomas Clifford (Director Tom, he of the ubiquitous beret) kindly offered to take us on a tour of five blog posts that interest him, including – and this is COMPLETELY different – quantum activism. Hmmm.
Check it out! And, [...]

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Lon Cohen shares his “Twitter professors” on the Mashable blog – 18 key people he follows who provide ongoing education on a variety of topics. Some known, and not-so-well-known, names listed here.
Who doesn’t like a nice list? Here’s 60 of the best SEO tools. And, some Inspiring Design Links for Creatives (thanks to @brandonacox for [...]

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I hope you enjoyed the Five in the Morning guest posts last week! It’s my intent to pass around the Five spotlight (and link love) to two guest-hosts per week, so that we get the benefit of everyone’s interests and reading lists. Thanks to Arun Rajagopal, Lisa Hoffmann, Connie Reece, and Chris Wilson for helping [...]

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The Personal ROI of Social Media

We do a lot of talking about the business ROI of social media, and rightly so. However, I’d like to toss out a few thoughts about how, in my case, social media brings personal benefits. Personal ROI.
I’ve been actively networking via social media for almost 3 years – have used LinkedIn longer than that, but [...]

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Puppies and Social Media Marketing

Just got done laughing (again) at the reaction of my cats to the new puppy in our house. They want nothing to do with Mystic – they stiffen up and run as soon as they see her, even though she is eager to interact.
Kinda like – how we react to traditional marketing. We don’t trust [...]

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Continuing the theme of “Let’s have a whole week of great guest hosts so Woodruff can sleep in for once,” today’s Five in the Morning is brought to us by that dynamo of pink boa blogging energy, Connie Reece. Connie attracts complex complimentary adjectives like magnets attract metal filings – ubiquitous, prolific, & inimitable come [...]

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Who is “New Media Lisa”? Well, if you haven’t yet been introduced to Lisa Hoffmann (that’s 2 N’s, folks – believe me, you will be corrected!), there is no better time than now, since she is guest-hosting Five in the Morning today. Lisa is a Charlotte-based blogger and fun Twitterer – you can get a [...]

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While I’m conferencing at the ePharma Summit in Philly, we get our Five in the Morning fuel today from Chris Wilson, who is peeling 5 fresh marketing posts off the interweb, and presenting them at the Marketing Fresh Peel blog. Go see the fruit of his labors – thanks for guest-hosting, Chris!

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Five in the Morning 020909

While I’m away at a conference (hopefully live-blogging and live-tweeting at the ePharma Summit in Philly), some very fine guest-bloggers have volunteered to take over Five in the Morning duties this week. Today – man Oman – we get to hear from Arun Rajagopal from Muscat (Sultanate of Oman). Check out his post, and explore [...]

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Go Ahead. I Dare You.

I’m no junk food addict, though I enjoy the occasional guilty indulgence every once in a while. So why is it that all of a sudden I have a burning urge to try a Burger King Angry Whopper?

Because they’re daring me to, that’s why. *(update – see below)
Many urges and motivations drive buying decisions. But [...]

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We picked up and moved all the way to the Left Coast today! That diva of all-things-customer, Becky Carroll, guest-hosts Five in the Morning over at her Customers Rock! blog (and if you’re not subscribed to her blog, remedy that situation post-haste!)
Here’s the link to her Five in the Morning post – Go! Thanks, Becky!
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Wired interviews Seth Godin at TED – Tribes, timing, and people (not ads). Classic Seth stuff. And, here’s a interesting thought from Seth’s blog, about “solving a different problem.”
Razorfish data tying consumer social media activity to purchase behavior – “there are significant differences in both engagement and spend between those who discovered the application or [...]

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Five in the Morning road-trips to Alabama!

Yes indeed, Five in the Morning has taken a journey south today, to the fine state of Alabama. Mack Collier (of The Viral Garden blog fame) took over as guest-host, and he has five fine blog posts for your Wednesday morning. What are you waiting for? GO there!

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Your Input? Pharma and Social Media

I’ll have the opportunity next week to speak on a panel at the ePharma Summit in Philly, on the topic of social media in pharma.

In the 4 minutes allotted, my goal is to alert the audience (mainly pharma marketers) to the most crucial “cultural” aspects of the social media community as they consider any initiatives. [...]

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