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5 Examples of Bad Responses to Social Media

5 Examples of Bad Responses to Social Media

In today's competitive business scenario, companies work relentlessly to build and sustain their brands. Social media pl...
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Scripted Writers

July 11, 2013
Optimize Your Business, Not Just Your Search Ranking

Optimize Your Business, Not Just Your Search Ranking

As the media landscape becomes increasingly competitive, businesses are being driven to adopt new practices to inform th...
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JD Peterson

July 2, 2013
The Wonders of Vim

The Wonders of Vim

As a software engineer, your choice of development environment will affect your productivity eight hours a day, five day...
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Murad Salahi

January 18, 2013
This, Jen, is the Internet

This, Jen, is the Internet

There's this great show called The I.T. Crowd about three people working in an I.T. department. One of them, in classic ...
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Sara Kendall

December 19, 2012
Startup lessons learned in the 2012 NYC Marathon

Startup lessons learned in the 2012 NYC Marathon

Before Hurricane Sandy hit New York, I expected to run 26.2 miles through all five boroughs of New York City, starting i...
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Ryan Buckley

December 11, 2012
Scripted App for HootSuite

Scripted App for HootSuite

Content automation is made even simpler when scalable content meets a social media management system. This is why we cre...
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Sunil Rajaraman

December 6, 2012
How Your Blog and Social Media Channels Can Work Together

How Your Blog and Social Media Channels Can Work Together

A common problem that arises with potential Scripted clients is they claim that they need a social media strategy. Their...
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JD Peterson

November 26, 2012
A Tale of Two Pitches

A Tale of Two Pitches

I spent two days in Seattle a few months ago for a business trip, and as I walked to the rental car desk I had a realiza...
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Ryan Buckley

November 12, 2012
Good Grammar: An Ancient Art?

Good Grammar: An Ancient Art?

Ancient artifacts are pretty cool. Just take a look at the Dead Sea Scrolls, King Tut's Golden Mask , or China's Terraco...
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Tasia Potasinski

October 30, 2012
Two Types of Interview Questions

Two Types of Interview Questions

There are really only two types of interview questions: those to which the person asking knows the answer (Why are manho...
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Jacob Kring

October 26, 2012
Content Marketing is "The Next Big Thing"

Content Marketing is "The Next Big Thing"

One of the reasons I love working at Scripted is that we are working on solving a massive problem - content generation. ...
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Sunil Rajaraman

October 18, 2012
Why Branding Matters, Now More Than Ever

Why Branding Matters, Now More Than Ever

By Tim Ferk, 99designs Ask any successful business owner, and they'll likely tell you that branding yourself is one of t...
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Scripted Writers

October 17, 2012
How One Word Changed My Outlook on Writing

How One Word Changed My Outlook on Writing

At the beginning of a Rennaissance Lyric class I took, we were asked to choose a literary term and study it throughout t...
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Scripted Writers

October 11, 2012
Bash is dead... Long live ZSH!

Bash is dead... Long live ZSH!

Over the years I've flirted with several different shells. During the 80's on System V I used csh, later I spent years w...
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Sylvain Niles

October 8, 2012
Five Years of Typing Dvorak

Five Years of Typing Dvorak

Painters use lots of brushes. Rock musicians have dozens of guitars. Seamstresses rarely have just one sewing machine. Y...
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Ryan Buckley

October 3, 2012