5 Ways to Kick Off Your Social Media Outreach Activities
June 18, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis blog covers many topics regarding running your business online and we talk about social media quite a bit. However, I don’t think we have really provided you with some basics to get started if you are trying to make sense of all the tools out there. Sure, we have covered Twitter and the Twitterverse [...]
If You Aren’t Excited About It…
May 15, 2009 :: Mike DoughertyIf you’re on the fence whether you’re excited about what you do or if the shine has worn off… pick a side and go there. It’s going to suck at times. It’s going to be exhausting at others. There’s going to be days where you look at your loved one, friend, employees, or business partner and think, “What the hell did I get myself into” and the answer to that question is the very same thing “I love what I do for a living!”
Learning to speak a blogger’s language
May 14, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungOne of the best ways to get word spread about your product or company is through other people. In the world of the web, the conversation that is spread typically happens through a blog. But it’s much more than simply pitching out your press release to the bloggers themselves. Long gone are the days when [...]
Challenges to Government Social Media Participation: An Outsider’s Perspective
April 2, 2009 :: Joe LoongThe main reason I went to Government 2.0 Camp was to get first-hand info on specific challenges and barriers faced by Web 2.0 advocates in government. It’s easy to say, well, government should get on blogs and Facebook and Twitter and whatnot, but beyond the traditional risk-averseness of large institutions, I wanted to see what [...]
Free MacBook Air Anyone?
March 19, 2009 :: swadePLEASE NOTE: This event has ended and we want to thank everyone for participating. Be one the lookout for events like this in future!
That’s right, we’re giving away a MacBook Air® and an all inclusive website with our friends at Woman’s World Magazine. We thought now was as good a time as any to [...]
Quick, While Everyone’s Distracted by SXSW!
March 16, 2009 :: Joe Loong[Photo at left: Unrelated picture of a spoon sculpture made from forks.]
Since it seems like every social media type in the Western world is currently over in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, I thought it would be a good time to catch up on a few things. Especially things that don’t involve Twitter, as [...]
Book review - Tactical Transparency, Ch. 10: how issues blogs show people you’re listening
March 16, 2009 :: Jill FosterQOTD-from Tactical Transparency: how leaders can leverage social media to maximize value and build their brand
Bk series intro, chapter overview
I’m still immersed in the useful insights of authors Shel Holtz and John Havens; and I can’t get enough of their book. Last week launched this review series covering the third chapter about characteristics [...]
Attending Local Tech Events for Fun and Profit
February 24, 2009 :: Joe LoongAs I’ve no doubt gracelessly hammered the point time and time again in this blog, I’m a pretty strong believer in the power of networking and participating in your local social media community– specifically, hanging around people who understand and use social media better than you, so you can figure out ways to adapt it [...]
Things That Are Not Blogs, But Are Blog-ish
February 17, 2009 :: Joe LoongWhen you get right down to it, blogs are pretty simple — they’re Web pages where the new stuff goes on top. Structurally, that about covers it, though we usually associate a whole bunch of other features and functionality that make blogs, “blogs” — archives, commenting, RSS feeds, blogroll links, the ability to embed multimedia, [...]
Proper Attribution, or What’s Up With All This Via Crap?
January 28, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’ve written before that nothing’s original anymore, and there’s nothing new under the sun. This is triple-true for blogs, where it seems that 99% of the content out there is just the rehashing and relinking of stuff that someone else wrote somewhere else.
This is unavoidable, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing; even if you [...]
