by Paul Holmes
My friend and Social Media Camp co-founder Chris Burdge put out a challenge. I realized there was a lot of stuff I have been up to that I’d love to share with the world, so what the heck – I’d share some of mine. Challenge Accepted. Problem is, I have too much to say. So …
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by Paul Holmes
A huge congrats to all the folks who worked so hard on the UVic Lipdub. The video is up, and it is awesome! 20,000 views and counting!
by Paul Holmes
It was Christmas, 1987. My favourite magazine was Popular Mechanics. I owned an 80286 PC with a 40 MB hard drive, 1 MB of RAM, MS-DOS 4.01, VGA monitor, and a 9600 BPS modem. From this computer, I operated a BBS – for fun. My lovely sister, recognizing my inner geekly beauty, bought me the …
by Paul Holmes
I’m rooting for Netherlands, but only because of that whole Spanish fishing boat thing in 1995. [poll id=”7″] Go Orange!
by Paul Holmes
I’m approaching 10,000 followers on Twitter (9,546 … oh, I’m so very excited). Naturally I turned to all my loyal subjects, asking what sort of celebration I should partake in when I reach that elusive 5 figures: Should I have a little Twitter party when/if I reach 10,000 followers? Or, maybe I’ll promote some crappy …
by Paul Holmes
In case you were wondering, yes, I was making these even before I had a child of my own.
by Paul Holmes
My LinkedIn profile is 85% complete. It has been since I first signed up, and probably will be in 5 years. Why? Because I have not included my education. Here’s my recent correspondence with LinkedIn: I do not wish to include education in my profile. I am a self-employed college dropout, and it is not …
by Paul Holmes
Every once in awhile I get an e-mail for another Paul Holmes. The most famous one is a noted broadcaster from New Zealand. He sounds very interesting, it might be fun to meet him one day. Today I had an e-mail from somebody who wanted to interview this New Zealand Paul Holmes for a book …
by Paul Holmes
Dude, where’s my username? He’s not Ashton Kutcher at facebook.com/aplusk. Get used to hearing the name Benjamin Standefer for awhile. I’d be willing to bet this holds – I don’t suspect Mr. Kutcher owns a trademark on “aplusk”. Here’s some other fun stuff I’ve come across: Trademark infringements – facebook.com/FriendFeed, facebook.com/iGoogle and facebook.com/appleinc. Attempted trademark …
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by Paul Holmes
So Oprah and Ashton Kutcher are big celebrities, and they go on Twitter, and tah-dah, they are Twitterlebrities. Then we have the Robert Scoble’s and the Guy Kawasaki’s – the technical wizards, self-help, and marketing gurus. Celebrities in their fields. Then we have those Twitterlebrities that just don’t make any sense. I found a few. …
