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How social media scored a freebie at David Burke's Primehouse

March 12, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

While this is the first time social media is the topic, it's not the first time I've written about David Burke's Primehouse restaurant in Chicago. The first time I dined there almost three and a half years ago, the group I was with got to visit The Himalayan Salt Room where the steaks are aged. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: social media

Review of "Gutenberg The Geek" by Jeff Jarvis

March 9, 2012 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Awhile back I saw a post by Jeff Jarvis over on Google+ announcing the release of his Kindle single "Gutenberg The Geek" (Amazon affiliate link). Unless you're a new reader of this blog, you've probably figured out that my company ColorMetrix develops color verification software for the printing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review

Time is irrelevent

March 7, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A while back Shelby Sapusek shared a guest post on this site entitled "What to do when there's too much to do," and something she said in that post about tasks taking as long as they take caught my eye. She's right; as much as we want to predict how long a given task will take, all we are really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: personal development

Transparency works

March 5, 2012 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

There is a natural human tendency to want to not look bad in the eyes of others. This tendency, driven by our prehistoric lizard brains, makes it difficult to admit we made a mistake or something is going wrong. A whole industry of "spin doctors" has sprung up to help you. They won't help you admit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: customer service 101

Seat Mates: The pediatric eye surgeon from Cincinnati

March 2, 2012 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

For a while, I've had this idea to write about the interesting people I end up sitting next to on airplanes. The first time I did this was one I entitled "The day my father died." My life changed that day and, more than three years later, I find myself tearing up just thinking about it. That's why … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Seat Mates

Do Twitter nice guys finish last?

February 29, 2012 By Jim Raffel 8 Comments

I've struggled with how to write this post. The title is my way of letting you know that I am not the white hat in this story. In fact, I was an arrogant, tired, hungry and road-weary business traveler who misused my social media megaphone. I'm willing to admit that for two reasons: 1. It's true and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: customer service 101, Twitter

WordCamp Phoenix 2012 Takeaways

February 27, 2012 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

I spent this past Saturday at WordCamp Phoenix 2012 and, as it has become my custom, I'm sharing my takeaways from the event with you today. The unexpected and intangible Networking: I've been to enough conferences that I know this, but I always seem to forget that one of the biggest values of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: takeaways, WordPress

Keeping it together on the go

February 24, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

During the next five weeks, I'll fly on about 15 different airplanes, sleep in about a half dozen hotels and spend time in six different cities. A stretch of travel like this can be disruptive to even a seasoned traveler. Routines go out the window, delays happen, flights and meetings get canceled, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Travel Tips

How Social Media Stream Density Affects Getting To Know Folks

February 22, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Different social media tools have different purposes. More and more folks will begin gravitating to tools where they can control who and how many people see their messages and status updates. That's not to say they won't remain active on Twitter or Facebook, but maybe they will look for places where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: social media, Twitter

Shake it up a bit: Reposition your widgets

February 20, 2012 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Over the last couple weeks, I've spent time rearranging this site without going through the pain of a complete redesign. The nice thing about WordPress is, depending upon the theme you utilize, much of the site layout can be changed by moving widgets around. The following are some of the changes I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WordPress

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