Hal Lublin on October 21st, 2009

Family, that’s what.
Over 4 years ago I met someone who changed my life, and I can’t imagine life with out her. Two years ago today, we were married.
Happy Anniversary Baby. I Love You.

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Hal Lublin on October 20th, 2009

Dear Yelp,
I love you. Really, I loves me some food and I loves me some honest customer feedback. I’m guessing that a lot of people love you for the same reason I do: I put more stock in what Johnny-Down-The-Street has to say about a local chinese place than some prissy dining guide written by [...]

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Hal Lublin on October 12th, 2009

OK, so maybe it’s just two states and far under 80 days, but don’t tell anyone…
One of the great things about working in social media is getting the opportunity to participate in really cool events like the BlogWorldExpo this week in Las Vegas. I really look forward to meeting and learning from the leading minds [...]

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Hal Lublin on October 8th, 2009

As my father proves here, when you’re engaging people online, you have a variety of tools.
But maybe this is just a LITTLE redonkulous.

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Hal Lublin on October 2nd, 2009

This is a list of phrases I hear a lot that tell me when someone isn’t on board the Web 2.0 train yet:
10. “I don’t know about all this technology.”
9. “I don’t need to go on Twitter to know it’s useless.”
8. “Who cares what I had for breakfast?”
7. “I love Facebook. It gives me a [...]

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Hal Lublin on September 9th, 2009

For all those out there who think Social Media is nothing but a waste of time, someone has made a diagram for you. So now, when you rail against Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like, you can use a flow chart to make your point.
Hilarious stuff.

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Hal Lublin on September 2nd, 2009

Kudos to Ginger Wilcox for this one. While I believe that having and keeping up with a feed reader is an important part of my day, I have a love/hate relationship with Google Reader. Gruml may have eliminated the hate. As a free standing app for Mac users, gruml lays out like a companion program [...]

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Bill Lublin on July 14th, 2009

Learn Social Media and get Perfect Abs in 97 Minutes!

I just got an email with the subject line “How to get Social Networking and SEO Savvy in 90 Minutes”.
The email was promoting, in a very old school, spammy kind of way, a webinar that promised that I would “..learn the ins and outs of social [...]

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Bill Lublin on May 25th, 2009

Pittence of Time – In Gratitude on Memorial Day
This song remids us that we (and our Canadian neighbors) owe our liberty and our safety to the citizen soldiers who endure hardships so that we don’t need to.
Whatever your political views, take a moment here and just reflect on how much we owe them, [...]

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Bill Lublin on May 18th, 2009

Facebook Manners And You
Enjoy this cautionary tale of the computing machine and the “electronic friendship generator”, Facebook.

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