Social Media

Fast Company Pulls a Fast One

July 6, 2010

Fast Company has been a darling of the geek set since it first launched. The magazine is full of the coolest gadgets, the hippest companies and really good information and the website is a vibrant community. So what went wrong with the “Influence Project”? The site which recently launched entices a user to enter their [...]

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Secret Formula for Social Media Success? Naaah.

June 22, 2010

What it takes to be a success in social media is the ability to be fluid and organic in your approach. To move quickly and decisively as new issues develop, evaluate new tools and networks for their usefulness, usability and appropriateness. To interact with your users and community and listen to what their needs and [...]

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Social Networks and Privacy

June 17, 2010

I was on a panel today at CFP entitled “Privacy, Activism, & Social Networking: Protecting Privacy While Running a Media Campaign in 140 Characters or Less” with Tamar Gubins, Deborah Pierce, David Roth and Danny O’Brien and I’ve been going round and round in my head about my own position on privacy online and looking [...]

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Stop using social media to build traffic to your web site!

May 26, 2010

Some people sell social media as a “great traffic driver” and it is, it’s awesome Google candy too, but that shouldn’t be your goal or your sole reason for using it.

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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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Crowdsourcing #SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet

April 4, 2010

Crowd sourcing is just an amazing way to get things done. When you can tap into the consciousness of hundreds or thousands of people at a time through social media remarkable things can happen. Send out the call and you can raise money in a disaster , true, but it’s not only money. People create [...]

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The Social Media Generalist

January 28, 2010

gen⋅er⋅al⋅ist [jen-er-uh-list] –noun a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields. I consider myself a generalist, especially when it comes to social media. Why? Simple. I’m a social media coach. It’s my job to have a macro view of the [...]

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Social Media Fatigue

November 28, 2009

I’m hearing it all over. People are maxed out on social media to the point they question if ANY of it has value. In many cases it’s simply because they stretched themselves too thin in the first rush of social media frenzy. You know what I mean. You find one network after the other and [...]

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edmodo-Social Network for Educators

October 19, 2009

This is a quick video demo of Edmodo an micro-blogging tool specifically designed for educators. The site gives you the ease of use of micro-blogs like Twitter combined with a number of features specific to a live or virtual classroom including: Assignments and grades Storing and sharing files SMS notifications Polling Class calendars for assignments [...]

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Live Broadcasting and Twitter

September 28, 2009

It’s amazing to me how quickly new apps pop up to fill a need. Last week I listened to a good part of the 140TC conference through a site called twebevent. The site embedded the Ustream channel and allowed people to talk to each other around the program through a Twitter interface. Login to Twitter [...]

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