Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki

By Colleen, on January 23rd, 2009%

I have been an admirer of Guy Kawasaki for over 20 years, since I first saw him in person at a local Macintosh user group back in his Apple days.   I liked the way Guy talks straight without any of what he calls “bull shiitake.”   I remember reading and using some of Guy’s Guerilla marketing techniques articles way back in the 90′s.  So when I got a chance to get a free copy of his book “Reality Check” in return for clicking some buttons that told me I would be tweeting ads for Alltop, Guy’s newest online venture, I was all over it.   That’s me being transparent and admitting I did not pay for the book.  I did not make a promise to review it, however.  I’m doing that because I want to.
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When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack

By Colleen, on December 9th, 2008%

I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter.   I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e.  without the brain cell killing mousage/keyboardage of 1) shrinking the URL, 2) going to twitter and 3) copy/pasting the title. That’s a good thing in three ways:

  • More cred for you if someone else besides you tweets your stuff,
  • more potential reach,
  • your friend who tweets for you appears magnanimous and with it to all his followers.

It sounded like something that would be easy to automate  and useful to a lot of people, so I thought, there has to be a WordPress plugin to do that. Sure enough there is – Tweet This by Richard X Thripp.
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