A colleague in one of my networking groups, Rob Clark of The Elusive Fish, once likened social media to being at a party. He suggested that just as we would at a party, we need to get out and talk to people. Jean Gogolin (in her WordTales blog, found through links from other bloggers), suggests [...]
Tag Archives: Social media
Keeping up with the Joneses
Marketers are going after another supposedly influential group these days: Generation Jones, a term coined by Los Angeles “culture expert” Jonathan Pontell. This is the group within Baby Boomers born between 1954 and 1965. It probably tells you something that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are high-profile Jones members. The distinction here is not age, [...]
New way to resume
Today I found Marci Alboher’s New York Times blog Shifting Careers, which highlights “the newfangled ways we are custom-blending careers, and shares tips for doing it better.” Check out the post about the “Web 2.0 resume,” which includes a YouTube video and Googlepages, but do continue on and read the comments. As some of the [...]
I’m all for it
In “I’m done with social media,” Dave Fleet encourages us to write in terms the average person on the street can understand, such as “web site address” instead of “URL”: “I’ll open up my conversations to people who don’t live in our little bubble and who don’t know our terminology, but who want to know [...]
Spending time at the pub
After last week’s concentrated efforts to spin straw into gold (writing like a woman possessed), I surfaced to finally check my feeds. Boy, was I behind! Chris Brogan, bless his prolific blogging self, had 33 posts I had not yet seen. I particularly liked his post comparing social networks to your local pub, where he [...]
Twitter as kudzu
In the post-Christmas calm, I’m catching up on some reading — some new books I received as gifts, and blogs, naturally! I loved Chris Brogan‘s description of Twitter: “Twitter is the stupidest thing anyone could ever imagine inventing. If I said to you, ‘I’ve got an application that I want you to install that is [...]
Learning to share
Not having yet drunk the Twitter Kool-Aid, I’m always interested in reading about the experiences others have with this “microblogging platform.” From colleague Joan Patch came a link to an article about building your online profile by AdAge “editor at large” Matt Creamer. He says: “Success in social media, I quickly discovered, is being comfortable [...]
Clueless about RSS?
I’ve mentioned before having friends (not in the communications business) who are less than aware of blogging, podcasting, Second Life, etc., but what if you ARE in the business? As Toronto-based WaterCooler Inc. asks in “The ABCs of RSS,” what if you don’t educate yourself on a trend quite early? “It becomes almost unmentionable to [...]
Bill’s low on friends
Aren’t you intrigued to know that Bill Gates apparently “only” has 125 pals on his personal Facebook account, while Martha Stewart has more than 1,500? Does that say he’s pickier than Martha, and if so, who would ever have expected that? I meant to write about this tidbit earlier after finding out about it from [...]
Melcrum & Ragan doing it right
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t use social networking sites to their full advantage. Perhaps that’s why I so appreciate something both Melcrum’s Communicators’ Network and MyRagan are doing: sending weekly e-mails with highlights of what’s going on, pointers to topical discussions and free downloads. Actually, until Bell Canada was in doing repair [...]
