With the announcement yesterday that LinkedIn and Twitter have inked a deal, the gradual meshing of your digital footprints continues. 140-character tweets can now appear as status updates on both LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Impressively, an @TwitterName in your tweet is also an active link on LinkedIn, meaning that you can click and go directly to that Twitter page. That’s a bit of technology that’s ever so clever, as it makes the language of

My site redesign by the clever folks at Viget features an illustration as well as my new logo. Reaction to the illustration is mostly negative. So we've decided to put a headshot there instead. One colleague called the illustration "off brand." A Facebook friend called it "playtime." Another longtime colleague said simply, "Away with the avatar; we want to see Debbie." And one of my grown children said, "OMG who is that scary lady?"

I’m re-posting an entry I wrote 5 years ago. It still applies. Back then, Googling yourself was a relatively new concept. Now, it’s a truism that Google results are your home page.

Posted May 19, 2004: "Google yourself." That’s today’s pithy two-word tip from personal branding guru William Arruda. As he puts it: "Being Googled reveals how visible you are on the Web, and visibility (at least among your target audience) is critical to successful

It’s happened overnight. Actually, in the past two weeks, since FriendFeed announced a redesign of their site. Suddenly everybody is subscribing to FriendFeed and it’s looking like the new "it" tool in the social media toolbox. Here’s why: 1. FriendFeed has made it easier to find and subscribe to others’ FriendFeeds. 2. FriendFeed is an aggregator of the most used social media tools. 3. You see a mesmerizing real-time conversation

The who’s who - and how - of D.C.‘s Top 100 Techies is all the buzz in the local tech community: who’s on the list, who’s not, etc. I was delighted to be named a Tech Titan (#100 as it happens, as it’s alphabetical) but I’ve been curious… how did editor-at-large Garrett Graff choose 100 noteworthy D.C. techies for the May 2009 issue of Washingtonian? Graff’s street cred for compiling such a list is impressive, BTW.  He was Howard Dean’s

It’s too easy to fall into the trap of, "I don’t have time to write a full-fledged blog post so I’ll put it off til later." Twitter, with its 140-character limit, beckons seductively as the shorthand for blogging. So I thought I’d put up some pics I took over the weekend, three days BEFORE the cherry blossoms are due to peak here in DC. All by way of saying that the best approach to blogging is to do it. Don’t always wait until the thought is