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03 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My SEMCON 2009 Presentation – Twisted Twitter Tactics #semcon09

Here are the slides of my SEMCON 2009 Presentation: Twisted Twitter Tactics, how to turn Twitter into a mega traffic channel overnight.

Twisted Twitter Tactics
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To recap: For businesses, Twitter is effective as a Marketing/Lead Generation platform only if it is used to build trust for your brand. Start with considering using it [...]

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18 August 2009 ~ 7 Comments

Injun fud

Last weekend, I went out and took my team of 5 out to lunch because, apparently, unbeknown to me, good managers are supposed to take some time out of the office with their directs once in a while to bond. Or in my case, be all awkward around each other and shit because in the [...]

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28 July 2009 ~ 9 Comments

Crackberry: The irresistable force paradox

I get this nagging feeling that my employer is trying to force me into a painful transition from slack daddy extraordinaire (and party boy emeritus) to a real employee, not just someone who manifests himself as an unreasonably high salary in monthly accounting ledgers; eats up the company’s bandwidth by downloading entire Gossip Girl episodes [...]

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04 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Mike Villar: Bullshit Machine

Mike Villar: Bullshit Machine from Mike Villar on Vimeo.
My company’s CEO, armed with a video camera, ambushed me while I was dicking around on Facebook and asked me what I was working on.
Surprisingly unfazed and on my toes, my response was–arguably–the worst, most badly-delivered bullshit spat out by anyone who has ever lived.
Not my finest [...]

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24 May 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Congratulations America, YOU’RE A DICK!

I’ve always had this carping feeling that America doesn’t like me much. A perfect example would be the time I landed in LAX a couple of weeks ago: After a monster 12-hour flight from Manila to Los Angeles–a flight that left me, surprisingly, tired, sleepless and high as a kite because of the tranquilizer tablets [...]

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