I couldn’t help taking a picture of this couple. It was so cute!
They were having breakfast while reading the news….in their tablets.
No newspapers going around the tables. It is amazing to me how all generation are quickly changing their behavior towards technology.
One of our newest members, Meredith from Tame the internet monster did a video of our shock and awe package that she got in the mail.
We want to thank her for taking the time do put this video together and welcome her to the BuzzBooster family.
This is a very useful post by Paul Gillin and I’m sure a lot of people will love this.
If you’ve ever tried to transcribe a Twitter chat or conversation thread around a particular keyword or hash tag, you know that converting the chain to chronological order can be a real hassle. Whether you copy and paste a thread from Twitter search or a chat-hosting service like Twebevent, the default presentation is reverse-chronological, with the most recent posts at the top and the earliest at the bottom. Using Word, the only way to change the order to chronological is by methodically cutting and pasting posts into a new document. Ugh.
I’ve discovered a way to automate this conversion using one of my favorite tools: the open source Notepad++. Here’s how you do it:
Copy and paste the thread into Notepad++
Select all text and choose TextFX|TextFX Tools|Insert Line Numbers.
With text still selected, choose TextFX|TextFX Tools|+ Sort ascending and remove the check mark
With text still selected, choose TextFX|TextFX Tools|Sort lines case insensitive (at column). This sorts the lines by number in descending order.
With text still selected, choose TextFX|TextFX Tools|Delete Line Numbers or First Word.
You’re done!
You can also use Notepad++’s lightning-fast search and replace feature to pretty up the formatting. For example, search for “@pgillin” and replace it with “@pgillin: to bold-face the name of a contributor to the conversation. Or replace hash tags like “#sm” with “social media” to make the conversation accessible to the uninitiated.
Because Notepad++ is a text editor and not a word processor, it removes all formatting from any document you cut and paste into it. However, this shouldn’t be a problem with Twitter chats because Twitter doesn’t support formatting itself. If you know a little HTML, you can always add back the formatting with Notepad++’s search/replace function.
Hope you enjoy!
Just a few people know about this, we have a secret life.
Here is a glimpse:
Playing small does not benefit the world.
How much can you take and keep moving forward?
This video is very graphic and hard to watch, but is a great effort to stop texting while driving among teenagers.
Even though intellectually people might understand that, seeing this video will leave a strong impression
Did you know that before ketchup Heinz was a leader in the pickles market?
From the Sociological Images blog: “Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to use television commercials. Below is one of his commercials, made by Disney, from 1952. Eisenhower was skeptical about using television and his opponent, Stevenson, wouldn’t appear on television because he thought it demeaning to a man ascending to the presidency. Eisenhower won.”
[Via BoingBoing]
The funniest thing happened last week at the office, get this…
We were in a meeting with a new client talking about business and such when I hear someone at the door. So I direct myself to the stress-free room (reception area) and much to my dismay find a police man standing there. He looks at me and asks if so-and-so person was there, to which I reply “yes she is, hold on a sec”. I walk into the office (being followed by the cop), look at the client and say “he wants you”.
He in turn points out the window and asks “Is that your car over there?”, the client now frantically screams, and I repeat, screams: “OH MY GOSH THAT’S MY CAR!!!!
I looked out the window only to witness a car perpendicularly parked on the street, now, not along side the curb mind you, on the actual car-passing-where-motorists-drive street. A car… blocking traffic, in the middle of the busy street… my client’s car!
She throws her arms and hands in the air and runs out the office like a mad woman towards her car… Shahar, myself and the policeman just stood there in silence for a little while not really knowing how to react… followed by sporadic moments of incessant laughter!!
Well as it turns out, on her way to our office my client was listening to the BuzzBooster’s Guide to Self-Promotion CD. She was really into it, and very excited to come meet with us so when she saw our building she just parked her car and came to see us (not realizing that she was in the middle of the street).
It’s truly really funny… she parked her car in the middle of the street!! What I still don’t get is how she walked through the entire parking lot and didn’t realize it! =D
Hahaha there’s the BuzzBooster Effect in action for you! 
Does it feel like your business is a battle sometimes? Like things are so complicated? Like you have to go through so much to accomplish so little? Take a step back and re-think your strategies.
This doesn’t really have anything to do with business, but it makes me lol every time!
Every characteristic of yours is an asset in business, sometimes we need to learn how to use it in sync with everything else, but nonetheless it can be a valuable asset. So what if you’re a little too creative, or perhaps too analytical, who knows even a little clumsy? Incorporate it to your brand, show the world who you are and allow them to engage with you because of it. So you have a “sneaky paw?” Don’t fight it, use it to get a better grip on that yummy bone!
J.K. Rowling speaks at Harvard Commencement about the benefits of failure, prepare to be enlightened:
“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default”.
J.K. Rowling speaking at Harvard part 1:
Read the entire text, get mp3, or watch the full video at:
http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html
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