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14 Situations When You Shouldn’t Tweet

Justin Levy — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:57:09 +0000

This morning started like every morning usually does, with me taking Sasha outside for her morning walk before heading to the office. I use the time that I walk her in the morning to gather my thoughts for the day, check and process email, jump into Twitter for a minute or two and read Playbook.

Sasha runs down the steps and outside with reckless disregard to my personal safety and therefore it can make it interesting to attempt to do all of those things while still trying to hold onto her leash and keep my shoulder nicely in its socket. As has happened before, I was busy writing a tweet while trying to walk down the steps. With a 60 lb dog charging ahead, I missed a step and stumbled a bit. Still determined to finish the tweet, I continued trying to type with one hand as we walked outside and ran into some scaffolding that’s set up for a little work that’s being done around my complex.

This series of events got me thinking of all of the times when tweeting, updating your Facebook status, texting, sending an email or just about anything else with a smartphone is probably not a smart idea. I then, of course, took to Twitter and Facebook, while still walking Sasha, and asked:

“You shouldn’t tweet or update your Facebook status when _________ [fill in the blank]“

The following are a combination of my own ideas, possibly based on some of my previous experiences (ahem!) and what some others who responded thought. Some are serious while many of them are meant to make you smile:

14 Situations When You Shouldn’t Tweet

Driving
Walking your dog
“You’re having a sleepless night” – Kathy Sperl-Bell
Walking up a flight of stairs
“You are hurt, upset or angry. Once it is published it is too late to take it back and will hurt someone else.” – Julie Arnold
Having a face to face conversation with someone else
“You have taken prescription drugs that have a ‘do not operate heavy machinery warning’. The internet is as heavy as it gets.” – Brian Simpson
Trying to seduce your significant other (and whatever else might happen after that!)
When you’re having your wedding photos taken (woops!)
Going down a flight of stairs
Swimming
“Someone needs your help. Put down the phone and help out!” – Chris Rauschnot
“You’re 12 beers into a bender” – Don Martelli
“You feel like you can rip someone’s face off.” – Patti Tacardo-Fousek

What would you add to this list?

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My CES Gear Bag and Advice

Justin Levy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:16:37 +0000

So, I’m here in Las Vegas gearing up for the start of CES 2010 tomorrow. Since this is my 2nd year attending CES, I wanted to share with you some advice as well as what I’ll be carrying in my gear bag to help keep me connected without creating unnecessary weight.

If you can’t view this video, check it out over on my YouTube channel.

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Did I leave anything out? What are some of your tips for surviving CES?

Google and FriendFeed Celebrate the New Year in Style

Justin Levy — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:44:23 +0000

By now, we’re used to seeing a new Google logo on holidays or other special occasions. But today Google has added in an extra treat. Head over to Google and without anything in the search field, click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

If that wasn’t enough, visit FriendFeed for another welcome to 2010. Once you log in to your FriendFeed account a duck celebrating 2010 will begin scrolling across your screen. Moving your cursor over the duck will bring up cross-hairs allowing to fire a round at the duck. The duck then flips upside down and falls off of your screen. It definitely brings back thoughts of long hours spent playing Duck Hunt.

Have you found any other fun surprises across the interwebs today welcoming you into 2010?

Missing in Action

Justin Levy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:25:51 +0000

Well, first of all, hello again! Yes, I’m still alive. No, I didn’t abandon you. Yes, I feel extremely bad that it has been a very long month since I’ve written here, shared fun videos, or heard your thoughts on what’s happening. I could make 1,000 excuses about why I haven’t written lately. But, the bottom line is that I’m back. I have a list full of ideas that I want to share with you, videos I’ve been collecting up, and experiences that I’ve had over the past few weeks.

As always, thank you for hanging out with me. I always strive to provide you with content that will you be helpful to you whether it be for professional growth, industry related information, product/book reviews, or just a fun video to help lighten up your day.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…

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Boston 4th of July Fireworks

Justin Levy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:56:22 +0000

There are many reasons why when I was growing up I always wanted to move to Boston. I’ve always loved Boston and used to come to the city often on class trips, to explore, for sporting events, the Tall Ships or any other reason I could find. Back in January I got that opportunity to move to Boston when we opened the doors to New Marketing Labs. One of the things I had always wanted to do but never got the chance was to go to the 4th of July celebration. Well, a few things aligned right in our schedules and last night Laura and I ventured down to the waterfront to watch the 4th of July spectacular. It was simply amazing.

Approximately 500,000 people gathered on both sides of the river to celebrate America’s birthday with live music, food, drinks and ending, of course, with a HUGE fireworks celebration. I have watched the Boston fireworks on TV for many years but nothing compared to seeing them in person. Of course I shot a short video of different sections of the celebration including the grand finale.

I hope you enjoy the fireworks as much as I did….

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What did you do last night to celebrate?

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Social Media Cribs – Pirate Edition

Justin Levy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:07:59 +0000

A couple weeks ago Chris Brogan and I were in Santa Barbara to hang out with the good folks over at Citrix Online (client). When our good friend Graham Farrar heard we were coming to town, he was nice enough to hook us up big willie style with a ridiculous mansion. You see, among a ton of other stuff, Graham runs the ultra-cool Santa Barbara Luxury Vacation Rentals. He set us up at the Vista Riviera which was amazing! What would any content creator in their right mind do? Yeah, we filmed some video as you’d expect.

Welcome to Social Media Cribs – Pirate Edition…

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If that wasn’t enough, Graham and Lisa Horner hooked us up, along with Brian Clark, by taking us to see Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction on the NIN/JA tour at the Santa Barbara Bowl. If you’ve never been to the Bowl before, it has to be one of the most beautiful concert venues I’ve ever been too.

Here are a couple photos from the concert…

A big thanks to Graham and Lisa for showing us an excellent time while we were in town!

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