10 months ago, I had the misfortune of being one of many Microsoft casualties in their rounds of layoffs. It was a pretty jarring experience losing your job and all. Especially when the reason you moved across the country was to work for the company. While I was certainly impacted from a financial perspective along with the worry of what's next, I actually felt more disappointed that they were letting someone go that had done quite well up to that point and had been a huge advocate for many ...
iPhone 101: How To Sync Gmail Contacts Without Using Exchange
1/2/2013: UPDATE Seeing as to this day, this is still one of my most trafficked blog posts, I felt it was important to update this post to reflect the fact that you can now accomplish what I originally wrote below without the need of a 3rd party app simply by using the Exchange option on your iPhone. There is no longer a 1 account limitation so just follow these steps and you are good to go! Open up the Settings app on your iOS device and go to the “Mail, Contacts, Calendars” section. ...
Social Media Friendly Blogging
Over the past year I've learned quite a bit about building traffic and driving awareness of my personal blog. I haven't done very well from a search perspective. There are certainly some improvements I could make that would make my blog a little more search friendly, but I just haven't made it a priority. What I have done well however is utilizing social media. It's pretty much the sole source of all my blog traffic, and in my opinion, much more fun to manage. The following are the ...
My 9 Favorite iPhone Social Media Apps
As if spending countless hours on the computer with social media wasn't enough, there's a quite a few excellent apps out there that help you manage, monitor and communicate through your social media channels on the go. Nowadays, a lot of useful software apps are now available to be downloaded in mobile devices like AntiVirus software or Smart Record App that will definitely help you, not just in daily life but also in your businesses. While some of these are quite obvious, perhaps a few in here ...
Office For Mac Macworld 2010 Recap
This year's Macworld 2010 was my first Macworld and it was definitely a different tradeshow experience then I am used to. For years, I've attended the Search Engine Strategies and SMX events and the biggest difference by far is in the audience. The search shows I've attended are much more B2B, with Macworld having a much more consumer feel. This was very evident in my attempts at doing video recaps like I had done in the past. At the search shows, EVERYONE wants to be on camera. At ...
The Office For Mac Social Media Extravaganza!
Three months ago I accepted a contract position that would have me help build the social media and community plan for Mac Office. Now, after 3 months of discussing, planning, revising, and who knows how many meetings, the curtain has been pulled away and the excitement begins. It's been an amazing experience getting to experience building and executing on a plan for a large brand, and certainly challenging to say the least. The group is very unique in that it's a Mac product within the halls ...
