Twitter Is Trying To Be Simpler – It Learned from China’s Weibo!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 10 2011 | Comments (2)
Wow, this confirms it – Weibo really is better than Twitter. Reading the official news from Twitter, their new UI interface updates seems to be quite similar to how Weibo has been doing it since its beginning! I got more information when I read Silicon...

Building an Awesome Team – Which Xmen Character Are You?

Posted by Michael Michelini | Mar 18 2011 | Comments (4)
Maybe I’m such a nerd, but this movie “The Wolverine” recently made me think more about TEAMS and working in groups. And the most important thing I think about working with other people is UNDERSTANDING WHO YOU REALLY ARE….. I know, I think...

Putting Your REAL NAME on the internet, being YOU!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Mar 09 2011 | Comments (12)
Social media has changed the internet, or “web 2.0″. I think the original web 1.0 was more just websites posting news and it hard for the general public to interact. Now, anyone with an internet connection can create a facebook account, twitter account,...

FINALLY Social Media formally in Google Search!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Feb 18 2011 | Comments (1)
Today Google announced something BIG for all those social media people out there…..we have been blessed today! Us social media guys, who have been kinda joked as social media just “playing games” and not really making money by our pure-play SEO...

Is Social Media Making Us Anti-Social?

Posted by Michael Michelini | Jan 25 2011 | Comments (3)
While it is scary to see people ALWAYS on their mobile phone…I find it hard to believe it is making us “anti-social”…..Marshall sent me over an article I thought would be worth blogging about…..Social networking under fresh attack...

Addictive Social Hyper Buying / Selling – “I Got The Fiverr”

Posted by Michael Michelini | Jan 11 2011 | Comments (5)
It must be pronounced FEVER , like “I got the fever“, the site is pretty addictive….I created my fiverr profile (“five dollar” & fever) and quickly linked my paypal account….with their damnquickpay you don’t need to...

Happy New Year From Philippines

Posted by Michael Michelini | Jan 02 2011 | Comments (8)
Been a couple days away from my computer so not accessing blogs and emails much (well mobile, i’m still fairly wired still on twitter….status updating quite frequently), so this will be my first blog of the new year. This was my first time to celebrate...

Are Social Media People Just a Bunch of Nerds?

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 30 2010 | Comments (5)
As I dive deeper and deeper into the developing industry of social media….I can’t help but classify the typical social media poweruser. Sure the majority of the global population now has in some way become involved with social media (mindblowing numbers thrown...

Cool I’m Hootsuite Certified for Social Media!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 26 2010 | Comments (4)
Sunday night, and I’m here taking the hootsuite social media certification. But hey, its what I am passionate about. The Hootsuite Certification Program went through 4 basic topics of its program, “hootsuite” as well as strategies for social...

Summary from Manila Meetup on Social Media (#manilameetup)

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 13 2010 | Comments (10)
Seems like twitter meetups still confuse so many non-twitter users, and even twitter users! I experimented and put together in Hong Kong meetup with only 2 or 3 days notice. Anyway, I am just experimenting still with different ways to bring groups of people together...

Klout Coach Optimization – Social Media Score

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 09 2010 | Comments (6)
Social media is on FIRE these days….or maybe being outside the GFW of China where I can freely surf the web I’m just exposed to more…but really, seems like every day a new thing popping out. One big thing is Klout. While I have heard of it before,...

Twitter Meetup Hong Kong – Putting Faces to @ Names

Posted by Michael Michelini | Dec 02 2010 | Comments (5)
Been in Hong Kong a couple days, between Shenzhen, China and Manila, Philippines….and wanted to meet some contacts I’ve been chatting to on twitter to discuss web design…which ended up turning into testing out a “meetup” of various twitter...

Its Still About Surrounding Yourself with Positive People!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 31 2010 | Comments (13)
I came to New Haven, Connecticut today to visit my good friend Scott Katin, who I’ve known since like 3 year old nursery school, traveled across country with in 2003, and have been in touch regularly via AOL IM while I’m overseas. We hiked up West...

As I Have More Readers – I cannot change my purpose

Posted by Michael Michelini | Mar 22 2010 | Comments (9)
Its great that each day now I hear about people enjoying to read my blog.  Of course that is the first purpose I had when I first started this blog , to share my experiences starting up a company and transitioning from corporate America to entrepreneurship &...

Why I use twitter, and why you should too!

Posted by Michael Michelini | Oct 09 2009 | Comments (2)
When i first signed up for twitter, it was around summer 2008, i cant remember how i heard about it, i remember it was during a spyble all night development day. I signed up and it then said “what are you doing now?” i said, doing finances. Logged off, and...

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