chrisg.org — Chris Garrett's Personal Blog

Email Marketing Metrics Report

August 13, 2009

Get free insider information into the world of email marketing. Learn what metrics are changing, what tactics are working, and what you can do to get more out of your emails. We examined data from over 300 million messages across 21 industries from the second half of 2008 to bring you a report [...]

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#WeLovetheNHS

August 12, 2009

There is a twitter meme going around via the hashtag #welovetheNHS asking for people to state why they love the British National Health service, or NHS. Here are my reasons.

I used to work for the NHS, and while that meant I got to see some of the things that were wrong with the NHS, and [...]

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Frustrating Customer Service From Three.co.uk

August 11, 2009

Go over here to read the story of my attempts to cancel my three.co.uk cell phone contract …

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Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin

August 10, 2009

“In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless,” says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn’t as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest [...]

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FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request

August 10, 2009

What does this mean for my FriendFeed account?
FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We’re still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team.

via blog.friendfeed.com
O … M … G
This could be very good … or very bad.
Right now FaceBook is not very useful to me, [...]

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Testing TwitChuck – Service For Cleaning Up Twitter spam

August 9, 2009

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Friends: 10328Followers: 16394

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we recommend that you follow chrisgarrett. This user follows the Twitter guidelines, does not spam, and is in general an interesting individual

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This is a very popular user
This user was created a while ago
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Nom nom nom

August 8, 2009

All you can eat belly-busting deliciousness …

Out with my family including parents, my brother and his girlfriend for a rare get-together. Happy birthday to me (again)
Posted via email from chrisgarrett.posterous

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Twitter Spam

August 6, 2009

via flickr.com
I am still catching up on emails from last week. Due to this I am batching up related items to deal with, nuke or file. It struck me how much Twitter spam has increased lately.
My solution? Block and report every single one to @spam.
If anyone sends me a direct [...]

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