Technology Deprived: Treading Water in a Big Pond with Big Fish

I was sitting in a Chamber of Commerce meeting one afternoon and it just dawned on me. Why am I the only IT professional in the room? Yes.  In a room of professionals I was surrounded by bankers, real estate pros or some type of service industry business owner related to everything but Information Technology.…

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Twitter Identity Crisis: Multiple Account Management

http://blog.lucaslshaffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/multi.jpg”>In the age of the http://standandstretch.com/2010/05/is-twitter-doomed/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>auto-tweet and the fact there are http://mashable.com/2010/06/08/twitter-hits-2-billion-tweets-per-month/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>2 billion tweets a month, I consistently engage users who have a line, or two, drawn in the sand.  They make bold statements about what twitter ‘should’ be used for and how it’s utilized the best.  I say, twitter is…

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Google Just Got A Little More Awesome: Enter Background Image

To my surprise, Google is now allowing you to upload your own background image.  I have read about the genius behind the minimalistic white background everyone has come to expect but now Google has become just a little more “Gus” = Awesome! As you can see below a new item popped up this morning and I began looking for…

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Monitoring The Web Using Google Alerts

http://blog.lucaslshaffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/alerts.jpg”>In a past http://blog.lucaslshaffer.com/2010/02/please-rob-me-8-ways-to-be-more-responsible-online/” target=”_blank”>post on how to be more responsible on the web, I brought up http://www.google.com/alerts” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>Google Alerts as a tool to help locate information on yourself to build awareness to what others would see.  I think it’s time to dive a bit further and discover how to monitor the web for…

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@Gist And The Social Importance Factor

http://blog.lucaslshaffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gist-logo1.png”>Have no fear, Gist is here! On the tail end of my conversations on Social Media and it’s impact on our behavior, I end up bringing awareness to a growing, and exhaustive, amount of time our social networks require and how ‘that’ time is becoming just as valuable as the information and interactions we seek.…

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