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What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Web Projects

I was just six years old when the original Star Wars movie premiered. For like the next five or six years, my peers and I were “letting the Wookie win,” pretending to fly in formation on our X-wing bikes, and avoiding Stormtrooper patrols. (As for who I modeled myself after, it was Solo of course….couldn’t [...]

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Creating Irresistible Content

It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and the clouds threaten rain. Outside, the brutal summer sun has transformed Austin’s sidewalks and parking lots into makeshift stovetops. Inside, the prospective client is not happy. She’s a small business owner by profession and an Internet marketer by accident. And no matter what relevant keywords she punches into her computer, [...]

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Save a Doomed Web Project in Six Easy Steps

Note: Originally published on my Posterous blog. Reprinted here with permission from myself. If you’re reading this, then you’re probably not in a happy place. You’ve got a development team in place (either staff or outsourced), and they’ve been working very hard for a long time, yet little or no progress has been made. You’ve [...]

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PinqSheets in Private Beta

Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with the good folks at Pinqued to develop a Twitter metrics tool called PinqSheets. The idea for the product originated as an add-on service that Pinqued was offering to their TechKaraoke sponsors and clients. Basically, they had a series of scripts and utilities that gave clients [...]

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BlogPrompts for iPhone

Several hundred prompts to help bloggers get a post started. No more excuses for not blogging–this app will give suggestions for different types of posts (reviews, soapbox, thought leadership, breaking news, tutorials) regardless of format (photo, video, text).

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PinqSheets in Private Beta

Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with the good folks at Pinqued to develop a Twitter metrics tool called PinqSheets. The idea for the product originated as an add-on service that Pinqued was offering to their TechKaraoke sponsors and clients. Basically, they had a series of scripts and utilities that gave clients [...]

SxSW Presentation Links

Just about all the links from my slide presentation at SxSW 2011.

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