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People Suck At Email V, Subject Lines
Subject lines are hard. Your subject line can fail if it is: Not descriptive enough. Tell me what the email is about, I need to know whether to read it, file it or delete it without reading the body. Too long. I need to be able to read the subject on my mobile device and…
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User Feedback & Twitter
When we launched the new HipHopDX.com at the beginning of the month, I was quite surprised at the inital feedback I was seeing on twitter versus the email I was receiving from the contact form. Twitter was generating 90-95% positive feedback, whereas emails were 100% negative! The few negative tweets were all fairly constructive and…
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Google Streetview Rolls Out in Canada
Google has started to roll out it’s streetview across Canada. As of right now, cities include: Ottawa Montreal Toronto (and GTA) Calgary Hwy 1 to Banff for some reason Vancouver Hopefully more cities will be added soon.
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People Suck At Email, Part IV: Threads
If the email thread is already 29 messages long, do not reply-all with “Thanks.”
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“Ohmygosh…I lead an overview of some of my favorite windows 7 features! It was totally informal.”
Yesterday I watched a 10 minute video of an HD camera tethered to a weather balloon as it climbed to 100,000ft then plummeted back to Earth. The video was a lot of spinning and whooshing. I got through all 10 minutes of that video. I could not even get through the first minute of this…