Five for Friday is a regular feature here on MatthewHooper.com. Five for Friday features five pieces of content that I have come across on the web throughout the week. It is most likely posts from other blogs that I have found insightful or meaningful. It may also be a quick video or a piece of audio, such as a podcast, that has intrigued me.
- How to Write a Pitch that Works
This article gives some insights on what makes a great pitch. It mainly focuses on email interactions, which is how most of us make contact these days.
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Posted in Five for Friday.
By Matt
– July 30, 2010
I’ve been asked by people, inside and outside of Taiwan, how I got to Taiwan. It’s a long story, but I usually sum it up with a simple answer, “I was bored”. While this is true, it doesn’t explain much.
On this site, I usually write less about myself and more about my insights. This post is more “me” centric but I hope you still find it useful. The following is how I got to Taiwan and I will post about why I am still here in the near future.
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Posted in Personal, Taiwan.
Tagged with backstory, career, history.
By Matt
– July 28, 2010
Quick Tip Monday is a regular feature here on MatthewHooper.com. Quick Tip Monday features a quick tip that will hopefully add a little speed to your workflow or help solve one of those minor, but nagging, problems.
Canned Responses Labs
I am really surprised at how many times I tell people that I use Gmail’s built in canned responses and it’s followed by a blank stare. Canned responses have increased my productivity by at least tenfold.
Canned Responses Menu
To use canned responses you need to first enable it in in Gmail’s labs section. After it has been enabled you will see an extra drop down menu below the subject field when you compose an email.
Write out the email that you would like to save as a canned response. Click the canned responses menu and then select save/new canned response. That’s it!
Your Tips
Do you have any quick tips that you would like to share? Post some of your favorites in the comments.
Posted in Quick Tips.
Tagged with canned responses, gmail.
By Matt
– July 26, 2010
Five for Friday is a regular feature here on MatthewHooper.com. Five for Friday features five pieces of content that I have come across on the web throughout the week. It is most likely posts from other blogs that I have found insightful or meaningful. It may also be a quick video or a piece of audio, such as a podcast, that has intrigued me.
- 500 Million Stories
This week Facebook anounced that it passed the 500 million user mark. Love it or hate it, Facebook is huge. To put it into perspective, the population of North America is just less than 529 million.
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Posted in Five for Friday.
By Matt
– July 23, 2010
Hello & Welcome! My name is Matt and I’m a Canadian living in Taipei, Taiwan. Here you’ll find me musing about social networking, web services, and internet business. While you’re here, look at the 
