Following Up on a Few Things: Celebrities, Crises and One Year Here
November 20, 2009 :: Joe LoongHere are a few items that came up recently that reminded me of other things that happened, only less recently:
* Social Media Vulnerabilities: From the New York Times Sunday edition came a report of a Hollywood burglary ring whose members not only targeted celebrities, but used celebrity gossip web sites to figure out when those [...]
Time for Social Media Marketing
November 17, 2009 :: Maura O'NeillMaybe you can’t afford a PR firm to answer these questions for you, but you sure can Tweet, Facebook, blog and, generally, jump in on the conversation. You can get some answers.
Start the Conversation: Blogging for Beginners
November 16, 2009 :: Jaime SoellCreating and using a blog is easier than you think.
Would Your Parents Have Twittered Growing Up?
November 11, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’ve been continuing to think about differences in generational attitudes towards the use of technology in general and social media tools in particular, and I’m not getting very far. I keep going around in circles.
(I am hampered by the fact that I am not a sociologist — not even an armchair one. But let’s ignore [...]
Social Media Workshop for Small Business – Richmond, VA on 11/20
November 10, 2009 :: Steve FisherIn today’s market where everything revolves around Google, how do you ensure that your prospective customers are finding YOU online among millions of other brands? The main reason why social media marketing is such a phenomena is its ability to transform an unknown name into a popular brand online. So how do you get started? [...]
Things That I Don’t Understand
November 3, 2009 :: Joe LoongBack in the days of Internet Bubble 1.0 (right around the turn of the popular millennium), I used to pause every once in a while to look around at the swirling maelstrom of Internet-enabled technologies that we (and that’s a very collective “we”) were unleashing on the world.
Sure, maybe a lot of it didn’t make [...]
In Case of Emergency, This Space Intentionally Left Blank
November 2, 2009 :: Joe LoongRight off the bat, I’m going to admit that this is pretty much a filler entry. I’ve been mostly laid up this week, working from home because I’m stricken with something that’s either a sinus infection or the flu (variety unknown).
I thought about turning my illness into an entry discussing how the CDC and other [...]
Four Ways to Get More Blog Comments
October 30, 2009 :: Steve FisherThese last few years have shown us that the true form of the web is not as a broadcast medium but a conversation catalyst and what better place than for this than blogs. Blogs were at the forefront of the social web revolution and what made them so powerful was not the ease of publishing [...]
The Absence of Presence and the Presence of Absence
October 21, 2009 :: Joe LoongThe Washington Post last week had an article looking at several Facebook refuseniks (people who’ve taken a stand against joining Facebook or similar online social networks), and investigating their reasons for (and consequences of) non-participation.
This, by itself, is only slightly interesting; as with any technology — dishwashers, automobiles, air conditioning, telephones, TV, cell phones — [...]
Guest Post: The Following Post is NOT brought to you by the FTC – New FTC Blogging Guidelines
October 9, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis is a guest post written by Michelle Cohen, Partner with Thompson Hine. She is a CIPP, Certified Information Privacy Professional (by the International Association of Privacy Professionals) and you can read her bio here. She has put together a solid overview of the new FTC blogging guidelines.
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission [...]
