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Re: Podcasts: The Intellectual Ear – Which Podcasts Engage Your Mind?

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:35:43 -0000

My favorites are The Onion Radio News - http://www.theonion.com/content/radionews, The M Show - http://www.themshow.com/, and Marketing over Coffee - http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/
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Re: 30 Hours, 30 Days: Get More Done by Focusing on Less

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:53:45 -0000

One week in and so far so good! http://www.thehotiron.com/index.php/site/comments/30_tasks_in_30_hours_over_30_days/
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Re: How AT&T Screwed Up the iPhone

Mike Maddaloni — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:50:05 -0000

Apple had an opportunity to take a stand and have the iPhone unlocked, resulting in people around the country not wondering how they would change their plans or create new ones. That reason alone is why I am not even considering it - I made a stand to only buy unlocked phones.

Re: Andy’s Summer Reading List

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:53:37 -0000

I too am going to read the 4-Hour Work Week... maybe we'll all be hearing less from people as a result?!
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Re: the womworld/nokia twestival charity eurorush - going that extra mile. - utilize your me.dm

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:29:32 -0000

Sounds like fun, and even more fun if you're there! But alas, even those of us who are gainfully employed have to watch out coins and will be there in spweet (tweet spirit?)...

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Re: A new job awaits at Weber Shandwick

Mike Maddaloni — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:34:05 -0000

Congrats!

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Re: New Tricks: Does a re-tweet on Twitter equal an endorsement?

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:20:47 -0000

Why does anyone say anything? How many times have you (or anyone else reading this) said something, and then when asked why you said it, you didn't have a clear answer?!

A retweet can be an endorsement or it cannot be. I retweet to pass something along to others from someone whom they may not be following. In some cases it is an endorsement.

Honestly, this is the most I have thought about RTs since I was first introduced to it!

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Re: 2007/05/30/palm-foleo/

Mike Maddaloni — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:57:02 -0000

I am loyal to the Palm platform and own a Treo 680... but I see no need for the Foleo. I already own a notebook that I sync my Treo to, and I am sure most all others who own a Palm-based smartphone also have a PC or Mac.

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Re: 2007/06/29/gomez-acquires-browsercam/

Mike Maddaloni — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:03:58 -0000

Hmmm... I didn't realize that Gomez was still in business.

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Re: Defining Social Media

Mike Maddaloni — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:03:16 -0000

Any chance you have this in English? :)

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Re: Dear Robert Scoble, No. Sorry.

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:11:44 -0000

The vast majority of the population in the US does not own a smart phone. Most people buy phones because they look cute or their keypad lights up in pretty colors. Up until a couple of years ago, there was limited choice in what you could get from the network providers, as most phones here are locked to their networks.

Yes, the iPhone has introduced many people to a robust mobile experience. But it has also introduced them to terms like "jailbreak" as they hate the restrictive and expensive plans forced on the by AT&T, not to mention the restrictions of where they can get their apps from.

But that's all most have known in the US - what they were told. From my own personal experience, even the most novice, non-technical mobile phone owner uses SMS, MMS and wonders why Americans have to throw out a phone when they switch providers.

Interesting how there has been no mention about Motorola, whose last innovative device was the StarTac.

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Re: How The Boston Globe Could Improve Their Website

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:10:38 -0000

As a former Bostonian, I always felt Boston.com was a few cards short of a full deck from day one. I never liked the fact that they didn't open up their archives, plus "registering" never gave you anything. And when it started, their tech coverage was horrible to say the least.

Unfortunately this is the mindset of old media. Fortunately the little newspaper in my new home of Chicago is starting to truly embrace new media - look for Colonel Tribune on all the social media sites!

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Re: You Need to Be Easy

Mike Maddaloni — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:03:17 -0000

Great list Chris! One thing I would add for business cards is a little white space, so people can write notes on who you are, and what you talked about when you met.

And if you use a service like OvernightPrints.com, make sure you don't get the UV coating as people will never be able to write on your card. I learned that the hard way...

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Re: When Google Owns You

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:15:21 -0000

This is a perfect example of the need to own your own domain name and have your mail go to an address with your domain name, rather than to gmail.com, or any other service. By doing so, if something like this happens, then you can change the DNS to another service.

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Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:11:23 -0000

I "lost" half of my subscribers as well, but unfortunately this has happened before, and they will probably be back tomorrow. Well, that's what I hope.

As for Feedburner being here in Chicago, from what I hear on the mean streets of the Windy City most all have either left the company or moved to the GooglePlex. Most of Google's office here in Chicago is sales.

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Re: Airlines Need to Get Sneaky

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:18:08 -0000

In other words... ensure Congress does not bail out the airlines, let them fail and die, and let people who are actually human beings and not corporate robots restart the airlines!

Otherwise, nothing will ever happen...

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Re: YouTube is Not the Internet but She Has a Point

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:33:04 -0000

It's getting to the point where we all will have to host our own content and provide the tools to embed them, etc., and use sites like YouTube to merely promote them.

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Re: Dear LinkedIn - Improve Please

Mike Maddaloni — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:24:27 -0000

I wouldn't bother - manage your contacts yourself outside of LinkedIn!

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Re: I Want Your RSS Feed!

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:46:20 -0000

Hi Andy:

Here's my feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/thehotiron

Happy reading!

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Re: MySpace Bots, Black Hat and Politics

Mike Maddaloni — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:41:15 -0000

Excellent talk about IT and Marketing. In smart environments, one respects and acknowledges the other and knows when to engage the other. These tend to be smaller, agile firms as the larger ones cannot see as there are giant silos around them. This culture has to come from the top and be woven in the org to be successful. If a company or firm is still using the term "webmaster" they most likely are not agile.

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Re: Learn from Porn Marketing, Future of the CD

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:16:12 -0000

Interesting approach on distributing the ISO fiel for the music CD. I have only encountered this once with the Ubuntu Linux server, and had a problem on one PC and had to burn it on another. It was a long download, and my preference would be songs ala iTunes.

Come to think of it... the M O C theme sounds like something that could have come out of Vivid studios... ;)

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Re: Extra Creepy Edition

Mike Maddaloni — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:41:14 -0000

Is LinkedIn a resume? I have had the (un)fortunate pleasure of seeing hundreds of resumes as a hiring manager, and the most basic information on a LinkedIn profile looks much better than most resumes I have seen.

And today, where any due diligence includes Googling a potential candidate, LinkedIn will show high on search results and by default contributes to their resume.

So where LinkedIn may not be specifically a resume by definition, it can be considered one and should not be discounted as not being one.

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Re: Nihil Noli Sub Soli

Mike Maddaloni — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:12:37 -0000

Hey guys... I agree with you charging admission for PodCamp, as having skin in the game in general makes a difference. John may recall similar discussion around the Boston Jaycees' board table on this in the past.

Have any XXL shirts left? I'll buy one!

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Re: http://whatleydude.com/2008/10/that-whatley-chap-he-gets-around-a-bit/

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:09:48 -0000

Hey - if you find yourself in Chicago, do give me a ring!

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Re: I’ve got something to show you…

Mike Maddaloni — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:25:08 -0000

I could see me in there... oh wait, that was not the point. :)

Great video from OpenLab - still thinking about that weekend and everything that went on...

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Re: Madrid: Being Human

Mike Maddaloni — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:22:52 -0000

I am sitting here in the apartment of my mother-in-law, in the shadows of papermills in Wisconsin, a few hours from my home in Chicago, reading a post originally hand-written by someone from the UK, flying to Spain, who I met at Nokia OpenLab in Helsinki.

This week the Web turned 18 - when I first experienced it in the early 90's, I could have never imagined saying the above statement, especially with all of the variables!

As others have said, you have to experience it to believe it. Now back to showing clients around the US about it...

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Re: When does Batman sleep? – Part 1

Mike Maddaloni — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:08:16 -0000

Hi James:

First off, he is not Batman And I am not just saying that because I live "in" the set of Gotham City here in Chicago. Batman had Alfred, Lucius Fox and - more importantly - people who were working for him who did not know they were working for him!

I have been in this guy's shoes before, but before the days of Twitter and even YouTube. My role was more internal to the firm, but I did solve problems for customers too. I did a lot of work because I chose to take it on, otherwise my brain would have been bread pudding by now.

From what it sounds like, he was doing this alone, and that is part of his problem. I had assembled a "team" of basically other likeminded folks who gave a damn, and though we were not purposely sneaking around, we all knew we were doing things that were against the norm and culture of where we worked. It was not a 24/7 operation, but because we were working on Web sites and Web apps, it was a late night task many times.

In some companies, people may not be receptive to social media, and unfortunately there's not much you can do. But in some companies, you need to keep needling people and eventually they will get it. For this guy and others, I hope they work for the latter and not the former.

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Re: Exit stage right

Mike Maddaloni — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:53:19 -0000

Congrats James, and good luck! Looking forward to following your next adventures!

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