Why sharing orphan ideas works

By rickColosimo / February 24, 2010 /

This BoingBoing post by Cory Doctorow briefly introduces a site/tool created as a result of a tweet he sent just a few months ago. Mekki and a friend ran with an idea I tweeted last October: “Who’s got a web-based service that will take a huge pastebomb (300K of text) and smarten all quotes, turn…

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Fauxtivation

By rickColosimo / January 27, 2010 / Comments Off on Fauxtivation

What is Fauxtivation? It’s hiding the ball from your customers to try to create a motivation to engage with your company that they wouldn’t naturally have, i.e., don’t need and don’t want. Example: “emailing” travel reservation info that consists of a link to a website rather than, you know, the actual itinerary info. (Tip: that…

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How-to: Forward a Facebook event to your friends

By rickColosimo / October 13, 2009 / Comments Off on How-to: Forward a Facebook event to your friends

My son’s school, REED Academy has a Facebook fan page as well. I created that page since I’ve been using social media, including blogs, twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook to expand awareness of causes important to me as well as teach people about my legal expertise in corporate governance and my practice in special education /…

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Software bounty — $50 WordPress event plugin with ics file

By rickColosimo / August 20, 2009 / Comments Off on Software bounty — $50 WordPress event plugin with ics file

I recently tried out several event plugins for ASDworld to capture some roving office hour events I am holding. The plugin I chose, Event Calendar, was the best of the lot that I tried (I know, I should do a comparative review!). I like the way that I get a crisp per-event post that can…

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