Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Four high-rise hotels surround Starbucks like castle ramparts, each filled with caffeine-crazed travelers. At least 50% of all hotel rooms (hundreds) have windows that look out directly on the Starbucks roof logo. I know that there are some foursquare haters out there, but for me its about helping my favorite Chinese place out.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Their brand management account followed me on Twitter after I posted, and retweeted my positive tweets. Still no contact from customer service. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But, I absorbed many smaller lessons that will help guide my thinking about the conference, technology, and social business in the coming months. There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace.

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