Thanksgiving 2014 — Thank You
November 27, 2014 Leave a comment
Thank you. Thank you for being you and for being a part of my life, Thank you for for letting me be a part of yours. 
Ron Casalotti, US Social Media Lead for @KPMG_US, presenting social media best practices to retired firm partners
November 4, 2014 Leave a comment
RT @AmandaMarketer: .@roncasalotti, US Social Media Lead for @KPMG_US, presenting social media best practices to retired firm partners
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A Post About the THING That Bloggers and Others Hate Getting
September 11, 2014 Leave a comment
Yes, it’s about that thing that if I mention it some [THING] filters will actually block this entry from being delivered. You know, the thing that is NOT “spiced ham” and NOT made by Hormel (which is a fine company with a fine product). I hesitate in saying its name, because many [THING] filters will block this entry thinking that it is. itself, [THING].
So, why this entry now? After all, [THING] has been around for decades and shows no sign of abating. Well, that is kind of the point, It seems that some of the [THING] filters in use are losing the battle to a sort of “fake contextual” attack. You know the ones. where a comment on your blog says, “This is the first time I frequented your web page to this point. I am amazed with the analysis you made to create this particular post. Great job!” The kicker, of course, is that the link to the poster is the “unsolicited commercial” pitch you were trying to avoid in the first place. 
For some reason, Akismet (the [THING] feature my blog uses, lets these through. I keep hoping it would “learn” the natural language and identify it as being, well unnatural via its off-topic nature. But I thought that would be too difficult. And then I saw this as a comment on this blog I had to hide. It appears one of the creative (used sarcastically) geniuses (used very sarcastically) posted the entire form letter these pieces of [THING] are based upon – without making the contextual word choices. Wouldn’t this be enough for a [THING] filter to consider the permutations and automatically block? It’s long, but here is what I mean (and I pray this will not help others create more [THING] (if you do, then you are a piece of [ANOTHER THING]:
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The ultimate guide to Twitterspeak, from the FBI, of course!
June 19, 2014 Leave a comment
The ultimate guide to Twitterspeak, from the FBI, of course (PDF) http://ow.ly/yfgov
The FBI’s List of Twitter shorthand
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Live Tweeting the 2014 Tony Awards
June 10, 2014 Leave a comment
On Sunday, June 8, Broadway recognized the high achievers of the year with its Tony Awards. As is my custom, I “live tweeted: the show and posted the results below. Like most Twitter streams, it is posted in reverse chronological order, so get to the full entry and start reading from the bottom up.
- Fitting end to the Tony Awards, On Broadway! Live tweeting the Tonys will return June 2015 cia
- Best Musical winner A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder! Yes!
- Oh, a coming attraction #Neverland
- Best performance by an Actress in a musical Jessie Mueller who’s performance has floored critics and fans alike
- Glad Hedwig won for best revival. Never saw the original but had the pleasure of attending a one night only performance 5 yrs ago…
- Wow, a rare public appearance by @Carole_King
- And, as expected, a great acceptance speech by Neil Patrick Harris @ActuallyNPH
- In all truth, any of the nominees in this category were good enough to win.
- Leading Actor in a Musical winner Neil Patrick Harris! @ActuallyNPH And well deserved, too!
- I saw Wicked 10 yrs ago and from that night onward my life “theme song” has been ‘Defying Gravity’ @WICKED_Musical
- Best Revival of a Play winner A Raisin in the Sun. Great story, great director, great cast and Denzel too
- Sutton Foster @sfosternyc is a true Broadway Baby. I’d pay to see her in any musical, anytime
- Best Play All the Way About LBJ with Bryan Cray (OK, Cranston) but also a large cast of great actors
- I absolutely LOVED Hedwig and Neil Patrick Harris @ActuallyNPH is amazing in it!
- Lead Actor Play Winner – Bryan Cranston Never in doubt, way to go Mr White/Heisenberg
- Best Lead Actress Play goes to Audra McDonald who wins Tony #6! Saw her this season in ltd Sweeney Todd run as the crazy woman
- Jefferson Mays was a-Mays-ing in his Tony winner role in I Am My Own Wife, and hilarious in A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder
- Featured Actress in a Play – Sophie Okonedo for Raisin in the Sun. A self-described Jewish Nigerian Brit#notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat
- For Cabaret, the entire cast is beautiful
- The great @allencumming is the ultimate Cabaret MC – Have tix for July
- Hah! Great “praise shout” by James Monroe Igelhart
- Featured Actor Musical Winner – James Monroe Igelhart (Aladdin) (told ya so)
- The buzz around Rocky the Musical has been uniformly positive
- Best Director of Play winner Kenny Leon – Raisin In the Sun
- Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder wins best director, the first of many tonight? This show is a delightful night at the theater
- Alladin You’re also looking at the winner (trust me) of Best Actor in Featured Role in a Musical– James Monroe Iglehart (Genie)
- Featured actress in a musical goes to Lena Hall! She is *brilliant* in Hedwig and the Angry Inch! #happy
- Confession: I am in love with @emmyrossumoh, and I loved this revival of LesMiz
- Mark Rylance the night’s first winner for his role in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Nice #WTF joke from @RealHughJackmantowards @ActuallyNPH
- After Midnight seems more like Smokey Joe’s Cafe part deux
- Hugh Jumping-Jackman leads off the 2014 Tony Awards
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