If you can remember your elementary school English lessons, you might recall learning how to format postal addresses so you could send a letter or navigate yourself to a particular destination. Today, most of us navigate to Web addresses far more often than street addresses and yet we no sense about how web addresses work, what […]
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I spent some time at Rise Conference here in Hong Kong this week. The conference hosts a few hundred startups from all across Asia and offers each of them a booth, an opportunity to pitch, and the hope of meeting their next, investor, engineer, or growth hacker. It was complete startup sensory overload. The talks
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I geeked out recently over the Android task automation app, Automate. The reason I got so excited was that it provided a very elegant solution for creating a custom NFC sensor for a project I’ve been working on. What I also came to find out was that Automate opened up a lot of possibilities beyond
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I’ll admit, my posts have been lame lately, but don’t worry, I just found something that I’m pretty excited about! (This is not a paid endorsement, but it will get a bit geeky. ) Automate by LamaLab is a clean, simple, fun and free (!) way to turn your IoT imagination into reality. The app puts all
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The following is an adaptation of the speech I gave at Hong Kong Toastmasters International speech competition. Thought is was interesting so I decided to post it. Do you remember your first day of school? How about your first time away from you parents or your first time out of the country. Do you remember
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When you reach the limits of Google Analytics custom reports and you still need more, Google Spreadsheets and the Google Analytics Add-On can take you past sampling, data consistency and dimension challenges. This post is all about the Google Analytics + Google Spreadsheets workflow. It is an end-to-end example of how you can extract more
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I recently ran into this problem when I was looking at someones Adwords account and wanted to get an idea about all the unique keywords that they were using. I used the following formula to get an array of all unique keywords: =UNIQUE(SPLIT(CONCATENATE(‘Keyword Report’!B2:B),” “)) But then I encountered a problem: “Error Result was not automatically
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In Defence of QR Codes If QR codes aren’t being used effectively, it is more the fault of the publisher than the technology. The technology, despite its looks, is quite elegant and offers a lot of opportunity. However, there are some pretty significant barriers to adoption and use. So the burden is upon the publisher
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From AOL Instant Messenger to WeChat stickers, digital communication has always fascinated me. From the beginning, there has always been so much we don’t understand about digital communication. It’s kind of like GMO; we just started using it without considering the implications. We are continually learning how to use the the digital medium to achieve
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This is part one of four in the $10k Technical Skills for Digital Marketing series. You’ve gone a long way, Keep it up! Getting Started and the Learning Mindset Being a technical marketer is as much about using technologies as it is about learning and adapting to new ones. The learning mindset may not get its
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