Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Social Media in Action

Give some thought to social media and privacy

June 9, 2010

I attended one of the pre-sessions of the Ragan Communications Social Media Summit at Cisco today. The session was on legal issues, but the first part was really all about security, and Christopher Burgess a senior security officer at Cisco (@burgessct on Twitter) brought up some interesting points. True, most of it is very common-sense [...]

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Social Media and Sales

June 4, 2010

I spoke this week at Radio Ink Convergence on the Silicon Valley Microsoft campus with James Hipkin, Alejandro Reyes and Bryan Fikes. I thought the show organizers were spot on with this opening statement “Interactive Media is Radio’s Next Big Boom. You cannot manage it if you don’t understand it.” Here’s the highlight reel from [...]

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I Knew You’d Help and You Did!

May 18, 2010

I wrote a post last week asking for your help for a little boy who has overcome amazing odds and we are raising funds for him to get the medical treatment he needs. As I knew you would you pitched in and helped by donating, spreading the word through your social media networks. People came [...]

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Responsibility in Social Media and a Request

May 10, 2010

I’ve been very fortunate over the years to be able to do what I’m passionate about for a living. In the podcast last week with the Jennifer Lindsay we talked about the responsibility of those of us who have social capital and the knowledge to use social media to use it to help others. Whether [...]

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Reputation Management Online

May 10, 2010

You would really have to have your head in the sand to not have heard about the current controversy over reviews online, most specifically with sites like Yelp which has been accused of everything from extortion to fraud. It’s  spawned the next generation of smarter services who are learning from the lessons of the companies [...]

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Tell Your Mama You Love Her

May 9, 2010

Mother’s Day is always a little bittersweet for me. My Mom’s been gone for over 10 years now, and it was really only in my 30′s that I really began to appreciate her and all of the wonderful things about her. Although I can’t send her a card, I  think about her just about every [...]

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There’s No Privacy on Facebook?? Who Knew?

April 28, 2010

Every time Facebook makes changes to their privacy statements or policies people get really irate. I mean REALLY irate, like in this video clip. First there’s the people that are appalled that Facebook would have the nerve to share their private information. (Ahem. You gave it to ‘em, how else are they supposed to make [...]

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Yes, you CAN pay for followers

April 27, 2010

A client insisted that he just HAD to have more followers. He’d gotten an email from a service that connects you with “thousands of followers in a week!” and wanted to know why that was such a bad idea. There was no way this was going to be good, but being the inquisitive type I [...]

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Search Engine Optimization, Social Media and Events

April 22, 2010

One aspect of my job and volunteer responsibilities is marketing events online. When there is an up-coming event I reach out to the various listing sites like Upcoming, Eventbrite etc. and make sure the events are properly listed to get the most coverage possible for the event. Recently though I’ve noticed a humongous up tick [...]

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Controlling the Conversation?

April 16, 2010

Can you control a conversation in social media? Probably not. But you can guide it…

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