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Facebook Marketing Conference #fMC highlights

Posted on 01 Mar 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Facebook Marketing Conference #fMC highlights

Yesterday Facebook hosted this Marketing Conference in NYC.Attending was available through, yup, you guessed it, Facebook.comThe hub is here: https://www.facebook.com/business/fmcOne of the reasons for the conference, as I understand it, was as a launch forum for a number of new features for marketers, some in the works and some rolling out in the next couple of […]

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Facebook will put ads on mobile news feed and logout screen | The Verge

Posted on 29 Feb 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Facebook will put ads on mobile news feed and logout screen | The Verge

via theverge.com At their Facebook Marketing Conference today, Facebook announced some tweaks on how ads show up in your feed. Marketers: there’s a new-ish package you can buy into called Reach Generator (which I think is buying a package so your ads go to all the spots in the graphic shown here) as well as […]

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#LeapYearDay is also @PinkShirtDay this yr in Canada

Posted on 29 Feb 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on #LeapYearDay is also @PinkShirtDay this yr in Canada

Here's my pink shirt for Pink Shirt Day in Canada. I'm hoping it's being posted rightside-up… Thanks to my friend Craig Yeung, Marvel Comics inker, who got me this one from HK. Just now noting the irony that it's Popeye… As you can likely guess if you didn't hear about it, it's a day when […]

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Saturday post of miscellany: Call your Mom, and Jeremy Lin is kind of a big deal

Posted on 25 Feb 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Saturday post of miscellany: Call your Mom, and Jeremy Lin is kind of a big deal

via sports.yahoo.com This past week I called my Mom. I’m probably not alone in feeling like I don’t do it enough. So consider this a tip. Not an overly complicated one, just one that will likely do many of us some good, personally &/or professionally. Call Your Mom. I hope to do it again this […]

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Excuse Me, You Have Something On Your Forehead : The Picture Show : NPR

Posted on 23 Feb 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Excuse Me, You Have Something On Your Forehead : The Picture Show : NPR

http://www.npr.org/design/flash_templates/preloaderAS3.swf via npr.org Wasn’t sure if a Slideshow would translate onto my Posterous and even now not sure what the output would be. But this seemed a timely way to try: a 15-year project by photographer Greg Miller of the ashes drawn on foreheads for Ash Wednesday (yesterday). Inneresting props (a 15-year project!) from a […]

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For Lent, we’re giving up…

Posted on 23 Feb 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on For Lent, we’re giving up…

via coldplay.fanfire.com Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, a Christian tradition of 40 days of giving something up. A few years ago I spoke with a Catholic friend about Lent. I asked her what she was giving up. Her answer: “I’m not telling you.” That stuck with me. So I too am not […]

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