From a blogger’s desk: microsharing, mobile media, and an intro
November 26, 2008 :: Jill Foster
It’s been a great first week with the blogger team here at Solutions Are Power. And it occurred to me that after five days, a better new-to-the-neighborhood greeting is due your way.
Greetings!
I come from a sales background long ago (seems like in the Mesozoic Era…). After a career re-think, it became clear social media, community building, and the communications ‘highway’ in between were where I wanted to be. I now teach communications tools from social media to public speech training to different organizations (and enjoy peer-learning meetups on digital tech as DC Media Makers’ co-founder).
From a blogger’s desk: what content do you crave?
What’s most exciting to me is sharing (and learning) what are creative, simple, and effective ways in building social media community. This plus how small business executes social media campaigns, innovations in mobile media, and more are what I look forward to talking about at Solutions Are Power. What interests you most in these topics? other topics?
This week, a trouble maker speaks
This week, Founder & CEO/Chief Trouble Maker Joanna Pineda with Matrix Group Int’l talks about a range of social media curiosities and leadership decisions. And if you don’t have time to read the multi-part interview, I invite you to listen-while-you-work to the six minute audio cast.
Next week’s conversations
During Thanksgiving week, producer of MobileDiner.com and Tin Can Communications Founder Chris Parandian tells Network Solutions about the wireless industry, its impact on business social media, and how mobile apps could increase digital access.
And one RAD conversation
Also to come in the next few days: you’ll hear from RAD Campaign partner and WomenWhoTech founder Allyson Kapin. She and her team help nonprofits help themselves – and local citizenry too – through online campaigning and advocacy. She shares cool tech in the works, what she admires most in recent business leadership, and then some.
Remember the audio
For all these conversations above, quick audio casts are included as bonus conversations which capture different subjects than the written interview segments. So if you’re under deadline, just hit play and listen-as-you-work!
Fertilizing relationships & going mobile
Three factors struck me about these recent interviews:
- -these folks relayed effective, accessible social media execution; and they clearly related their experience to internal and external community;
- -they talked about microsharing (or microblogging like on Twitter) and how that type of online participation fertilized – or warmed up – relationships for offline impact;
- -and in parts of our discussions, using mobile media to launch conversations and outreach wherever you are came up i.e. your online participation can be as mobile as your business.
A lot emerged while talking shop this week, teaching me plenty. And I anticipate diving deeper into these topics, along with you, as 2009 arrives.
(Rosie The Blogger graphic under Creative Commons Attribution, generic 2.0 — by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com after J. Howard Miller)
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