[A quick point of clarity in case anyone comes to this site by searching for words like ‘Aeromexico’ and ‘scam’ or anything of the sort: Aeromexico is an excellent travel provider, and I had a fantastic experience with them booking travel, flying, and in a subequent customer service inquiry. eDreams is the guilty party here, […]
Category: Tools and Tips
How (and Why) to Get a Branded URL
As I started producing my own newsletter for the first time, I was including URLs in-line with the text (instead of just hyperlinking text), and started to get frustrated with the length of some of them. Long URLs are ugly. At first, my solution was to create custom bit.ly URLs, which I love doing in […]
Goodbye Delicious, Hello Pinboard
As part of all of the changes with the site and blog, I finally said farewell to one of my most reliable tech services. Delicious, which had really been left for dead for years after it was spun back out of Yahoo, no longer made sense to use. It got to the point when I […]
Want the Best Marketing Advice for Recent Graduates? Here are 100 Answers
Know some recent grads who want some career advice? Heidi Cohen pursued a massive undertaking and reached out to a bunch of the smartest people I know or follow, plus many others new to me, and was kind enough to include me in such company. Read the full post here, and view her slideware version […]
How I Keep Track of Startups and Emerging Technologies – A BestVendor List
Lately, I've been checking into BestVendor, a new service that lets you rate software and apps you use, mostly for business but also for personal purposes. While it's a work in progress, it keeps adding more useful features. One of the latest is Lists, where anyone can create a topical, curated list. Check out my […]
My New Rules for Contact Management
I've been noticing in my Outlook contacts that there's a lot of dead wood – namely, people who I have no clue who they are, or who I think it's extremely unlikely I'll speak to again (if I do, we can exchange business cards (or Poken, perhaps – I ordered one on Rohit Bhargava's suggestion). […]
The Top 11 Twitter Tools – Links and Presentation from Brandhackers Meetup
On Monday night, I had the pleasure of presenting on Twitter tools and best practices at the Brandhackers Meetup in NY with Greg Galant. View the presentation via SlideShare (click through to see the full size), which includes an intro before the tools and best practices after. And if you’re so inclined, you can find […]
A Pack Rat’s Guide to Moving from Yahoo to Gmail Once and for All
I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user for about ten years, and then I started switching to Gmail. My biggest motivation for switching wasn’t usability. It’s that I picked a really dumb user name for Yahoo (daveny1024), and I picked a much better one (dberkowitz) for Gmail, though I did wind up preferring Gmail once I […]
8 Ways Job Hunters Can Use LinkedIn’s Company Profiles
One of the best job hunting resources just launched on LinkedIn: company profiles (thanks to the LinkedIn blog and Jeremiah for the heads up). It tells you so much information about potential employers that it can make your job research so much more productive. Here are seven ways to do it. Check out the parent […]
Creating Forms in Google Docs
This is a great trick from Google Docs I just discovered while visiting author Dan Pink’s site where he welcomed readers to sign up for notifications of when his new book comes out. What was interesting is that the form is from Google Docs, and it saves the data directly into a spreadsheet. I’m no […]