Twitter: One Week, Seven Joys

Technically, it’s only five days since I joined. I’m loving it. Visit my page at http://twitter.com/JoeHage. You need to join. For the uninitiated and according to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts […]

A Twitter dilemma: To follow or not to follow

In Six Ways, I talked about ways to influence and persuade. Chief among them: reciprocity. You do something for someone else, they do something for you. So when someone starts to follow me on Twitter, I feel somewhat obligated to reciprocate. Not following follow them back says one of two things: – I don’t find […]

ChipIn: Tried this, didn’t work

Sudden cardiac arrest takes 7,000 kids in the US a year. I want to raise awareness and funds to get them in every school. I will buy an AED and put it in a local school that does not have one. Will you help?

Interesting Web factoids

According to the Aberdeen Group, a division of Harte Hanks (NYSE: HHS), when a Web page takes longer than five seconds to load, customers give up. An additional delay of one second can result in a loss of seven percent of customers, 11 percent page view decline, and a 16 percent drop in customer satisfaction, the study found.

P&G, Facebook, Brogan, and Kmart

Joe takes a look at a recent NY Times article and a recent online scuttle and asks, “Do advertisers have a chance in social media?”

TinyURL and its 90+ competitors

A while back I wrote about TinyURL, a Web service that shortens a long Web address into something smaller, memorable, usable, and marketable. I wrote: “In a future post, I’ll talk about a TinyURL imitator that, as far as I can tell, has a distinct advantage versus TinyURL.” I had no idea at the time […]