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June 9, 2009

Teachable Moment: Stop Playing with Your BlackBerry When…

... there's a billionaire in the room.

I'm starting a new category called Teachable Moments, where I'll be linking to stories that illustrate much better than I ever could what NOT to do with technology.

In this particular case, it seems like a BlackBerry obsession played a part in yesterday's coup in the New York State Senate.

When I travel 250 miles to make the case on how to save the state a lot of money and increase the quality of life for residents with developmental disabilities and a guy comes into his office and starts playing with his BlackBerry, I was miffed.

And who wouldn't be? Elections have consequences. So does bad behaviour.

Smith A Victim Of Bad BlackBerry Etiquette (NY Daily News)

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Are You a Twit If You Don’t Tweet?

Check out the blog of just about any hard-core Twitter evangelist and you'll probably find some variation of this statement: "I didn't 'get' Twitter at all at first, but now I LOVE it!"

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WOEDTM?!

I don't do the text messaging thing, so I rarely have a need to dramatically shorten the words I write.

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