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Would you Pay for Tweetdeck or Advanced Twitter Features?
ByMike McBride February 15, 2021February 14, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

If they really want to charge for Tweetdeck, it needs to be treated like a commercial product. Since they brought it in years ago, Twitter has basically just left it sitting on the shelf. There hasn’t been a lot of development, there’s no longer an iOS app, and some native Twitter features, like deleting a tweet, aren’t integrated with Tweetdeck. So, if you’re looking to make some money by charging for Tweetdeck, I get it, but I’m gonna need a little more effort from you Twitter.

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Linked: Border agents can search phones freely under new circuit court ruling
ByMike McBride February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

So, maybe if you have business data that is required to be protected and kept private, don’t cross the US border with a device that has it stored, huh? “A US appeals court has ruled that Customs and Border Protection agents can conduct in-depth searches of phones and laptops, overturning an earlier legal victory for…

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Linked: Hidden Dangers of Microsoft 365’s Power Automate and eDiscovery Tools
ByMike McBride February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

Look, we’ve always had this issue in the eDiscovery space, in order to put data on hold, and collect it as part of a lawsuit, someone has to be able to access all of it. That means there has to be an account somewhere with unlimited access to both search, and collect, tons of data from your environment, as necessary.

As important as having the ability to do that when faced with litigation, there is also the danger inherent in having an account, and tools, with that level of access.

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Linked: Social media is no place for COVID-19 vaccination cards
ByMike McBride February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I don’t know, it seems like finding someone’s full name and birth date on social media isn’t really that hard, with or without the card, but maybe that information about where you got the shot and when could be used against you. It is private health information after all. Maybe it should stay that way?

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Linked: How to Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Productivity
ByMike McBride February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

RSS is not gone, quite the opposite. Most people, however, don’t use RSS subscriptions like they did in the old Google Reader days, but RSS is running underneath a whole lot of stuff that we all use every day.

But, I also want to point out that there are a TON of good reasons to use an RSS reader now. Maybe more than there were when Google still had one. As it is, we’ve sort of grown into this habit of letting social media inform us. If there’s some topic we want to know about, we’ll follow some accounts and let the algorithm decide for us what we need to see.

Look how well that’s working out.

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Linked: Strategy and tactics and Powerpoint
ByMike McBride February 2, 2021February 1, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I think many a public speaker would do well to remember Seth’s questions here about using a tool like PowerPoint: “Overall question: Who is this presentation for? And the follow-up: What change are we seeking to make? If you’re not trying to cause an action or some other change in attitude or belief, then what’s…

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