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ACHCA 2009 Winter Marketplace Presentation

December 6, 2009

Thanks for much for inviting Amanda Vega Consulting to your event. Here’s a complete copy of the slides I presented with. You are free to download them. If you have any further questions, please leave them in the comments or email Amanda@AmandaVega.com ACHCA 2009 Winter Marketplace View more presentations from Tyler Hurst.

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Speech to BPW Phoenix

October 23, 2009

Know what you’re talking about. If nothing else, know what you’re talking about. Short of that, just do what I do here and talk nearly non-stop for an hour and a half. Also, put your name on your shirt. Here’s the full version. Highlights to come, if I find any.

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You cannot circle jerk your way to success

August 26, 2009

Get out of your echo chamber. You need to think critically. You need to question. You need to support. You can’t be blind to criticism. Events like SMAZ are a perfect example of why so many people seem to have absolutely no idea how to get better. Who was the event for? Businesses looking to [...]

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Kabuki responds to customer tweet during Happy Hour

August 5, 2009

Had this sent to me by Julia72 last night. Great story of a restaurant using social media monitoring appropriately, responding directly to customers needs and earning some great props in the process. Her words are in italics. I was in a sushi place tonight for happy hour waiting for some friends to show up. I [...]

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Narcissism is killing us

June 28, 2009

The first web boom was about money. Thousands of people made tons of money (on paper) making apps they thought the world would want forever. Everything grew too big too fast and died a quick, painful death, taking all the money with it. Looking back, we’ll remember the time for huge offices, rich youngsters and [...]

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Twitter is a medium, not a media outlet

January 16, 2009

We all know a plane ditched in the Hudson yesterday. Kudos to the pilot and all those involved in rescuing the passengers. But old media…you people will never learn. As reported NUMEROUS times, the first reports and pictures from the incident came out via Twitter and TwitPic. Old media classified these are media outlets. THEY [...]

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