Catching up on my RSS reader (I’m woefully behind), I came across this post from Dirk Singer’s Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
It looks at an eMarketer assessment of why regular Twitter users, though relatively small in number (when you compare them to Internet users overall), make the platform I love – and many still love to hate – important:
My friend Jill Foster posted this great tweet the other day.
I thought it was a great goal. Only problem was, by the time the evening rolled around, I’d only had one really good laugh thus far.
When I opened the door
“How’s it going?” said Evening to me, in a most avuncular fashion.
“Pretty good,” I answered, “except for this laugh thing.”
Evening pushed his bi-focals up his Dumbledore-esque proboscis and inspected me with a touch of concern. Could this daughter of the East be losing her marbles?
“You know, […]
Today, I am
Tired of trying
Weary of worrying
Frightened of failing
Scared of succumbing.
Today, I am
Invisibly clad in sparkling scarlet spandex
Hair buffeted by the breeze
Muscles awake and alert
Spring in my step, shine on my soul.
Today, I am
Rediscovering romance
Reiterating reason
On networking for business
We see, hear, read ad nauseam about how we should network to grow our businesses.
Image: USACE Europe District, Creative Commons
Too often, though, I think people take that to mean going to innumerable tweetups, happy hours and the ilk. I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve seen over-commit themselves to multiple networking events on the same night.
The end result is usually that they’re tired, over-extend themselves which they later regret, and sometimes do things they later […]
