How to Add a Home Screen Icon for Alltop
Now you can add a home screen icon for Alltop on your iPhone. First, click on the + sign. Second, click on “Add to Home Screen.” […]
How to Spread a Tweet with Tweetmeme
Have you noticed this tweet button on websites and blogs? A company out of England called Tweetmeme created a service that tallies all the times people have tweeted and retweeted a link. It’s a great way to spread the word about your websites and blogs. Read this interview with the founder of Tweetmeme to learn [...]
What do you think? Decreased font size of iPhone access to MyAlltop pages
By popular demand, we decreased the size of the font when people look at MyAlltop pages with an iPhone or Blackberry. Now you’re able to see seven or eight headlines at once. If you don't have a MyAlltop page, look at mine here. Or better yet, build one here.
How to Read Your Favorite RSS Feeds On an iPhone
Most websites and blogs use something called RSS feeds to push updates to you. RSS feeds are often convenient because you don’t have to go to the website or blog to read them. Instead, new stories are pushed to you—this is akin to the difference between going to a store to buy a magazine versus [...]
Five Days with a Camaro
Chevrolet loaned me a 2010 Camaro for a few days. There’s no question that it just nailed the styling: just enough visual linkage to the past, but modern in current execution. It really says, “Don’t screw with me.” (FixMyPhotos processed these photos for me. If you’d like them to help you with your profile picture, [...]
The World’s Greatest Collection of Lies
To get lies, go here: Entrepreneurs Engineers Venture capitalists Marketers Lawyers Corporate partners CEOs Guy Kawasaki To get truths, go here: Entrepreneurship Engineering Venture capital Marketing, branding, and advertising. Law Leadership
Last Chance for Revenue Bootcamp and Facebook Providing $50 Advertising Coupon
We’re rapidly coming up on Revenue Bootcamp on Friday. The event is almost sold out. Click here to see the agenda. Facebook is providing a $50 coupon that you can apply to advertise your product or service on it plus you can use this discount code to get $50 off the admission price: “FGK09.”
Two Bad Asses, Sheep Guts, Well-Hung Beef, and the 25 Best Store Names in Edinburgh
I’ve been to many places around the world, but I’ve never seen a city with cooler store names than Edinburgh, Scotland. Here are the 25 best stores names that I saw on a recent trip. They run the gamut from clever and punny to downright descriptive. Cocaine? Tofu? Stuff white people like? I never went [...]
Why I’m More of a Believer in GM
What better pictures to post on the 4th of July than ones of a good ole, red-blooded Corvette. My buddies in the GM PR department loaned me one to drive for a week after we connected on Twitter—yet another frequently overlooked of tweeting! This guy shows up at my house with the keys for a [...]
How I Tweet: Updated 9/2/10
Update: Holy Kaw By far, the biggest change to my tweeting is the creation of a section of Alltop called Holy Kaw. I started it because of the popularity of my Posterous blog where I uploaded pictures and summaries of interesting stories—basically stuff that was too long for a tweet and too short for a [...]
How to Achieve Revenue
The harsh reality of the startup scene today is that revenue is the best, and maybe only, form of funding. While many conferences focus on gaining the attention of investors, we’ve put one together that focuses on generating revenue. […]
Reality Check Now Available in French
Vient de paraître en français: La réalité de l'entrepreneuriat Le guide irrévérencieux pour dépasser, devancer, distancer vos concurrents de Guy Kawasaki Publié en français par les Editions Diateino, avec l'aimable autorisation de Portfolio, Penguin Group. 26 euros. Ce livre, traduit par Marylène Delbourg Delphis, fait suite à L’art de se lancer, le bestseller de Guy [...]
Sites Used at San Diego Venture Group Speech
These are the sites and applications that I used in today’s San Diego Venture Group speech about using social media as a marketing tool. Making Connections LinkedIn LinkedIn: Find References LinkedIn: Companies LinkedIn: Answers: Home LinkedIn: Jobs Home Jigsaw Spokeo […]
How Mayo Clinic Uses Social Media
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted an interview with Lee Aase. He manages syndication and social media for Mayo Clinic. In this interview he explains the history of Mayo Clinic’s use of social media and how effective this effort has been. If you’re considering social media for your organization, it’s a worthwhile [...]
A Good Guide to Social Marketing
I came across a good guide to social marketing that you might find interesting. It’s called “Social Marketing Playbook,” and the folks at 360i wrote it. You can read and download it here.
One Reason Why I bought the New iPhone
I take a lot of close-up pictures of very important things. Old iPhone. New iPhone. Old iPhone. New iPhone. Old iPhone. And this is not any spam. This is spam from Montreal, so it’s French-Canadian spam! New iPhone. To get total iPhone news coverage, click here.
How to Get Your Back Covered
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted an interview with Keith Ferrazzi, the author of Who’s Got Your Back. Keith’s preview book, Never Eat Alone was a huge success. In my interview he explains how executives can improve their success by forming a team of hardcore advisors. Click here to read it.
Teenage Entrepreneurs Tell It Like It Is
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted a video of a panel of teenage entrepreneurship panel. Delightful stuff that will inspire you—and scare you too. Click here to view it. Please mark it “found useful” if you do find it useful.
Lessons from the Navy
Over at the American Express OPEN Forum, I posted a guest article by Bill Reichert, my colleague at Garage. He and I went on an overnight trip to the USS Nimitz, and these are the lessons he learned from the visit that one can apply to management and entrepreneurship. Click here to read it.
24 Hours at Sea on the USS Nimitz
On Friday, May 29, 2009, fourteen bloggers and “distinguished visitors” served a twenty-four hour tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. The following 140 or so pictures and videos document this visit. This is a very long blog posts as blog posts go, and I know there are ways to create slideshows or other forms [...]