Has Social Media Made the Holidays Easier, or Harder?
December 16, 2008 :: Joe LoongAs we get into the Christmas home stretch, I wanted to pause and ask a question (not surprisingly, it’s the question that headlines this entry):
Have social media and online community tools made holiday preparations easier, or harder?
My own guess going into this topic is that the effect has been pretty much neutral — a wash [...]
Of Course Facebook Doesn’t Make Reunions Obsolete
December 12, 2008 :: Joe LoongA couple of days after Thanksgiving, there was an article in the Boston Globe that posed the question: Have online networks rendered reunions obsolete?
Since Thanksgiving is usually a time for homecomings and high school reunions, it was a particularly timely question — even if it was one of those leading questions meant solely to provoke [...]
Social Media and Mobile Media in Real-World Get-Togethers
December 9, 2008 :: Joe LoongLast week, I happened to catch a Twitter post (petulantly, I refuse to call them tweets) from fellow blogger Jill, about a local Tweetup (Twitter user meetup) in Bethesda later that evening. Although there’s a Facebook group for this particular bunch of DC Twitter users, I hadn’t known about it, so it was new to [...]
Event Review – Web Content Mavens on NOT Creating Communities
November 25, 2008 :: Joe LoongLast week, I went to the monthly meetup of the DC-based Web Content Mavens. It’s a good group, centered around people who work on all aspects of Web content. Members include people who deal with the nuts and bolts of Content Management Systems (applications for managing and publishing stuff to the Web — popular CMSes [...]
Launching Remarkd.com
September 4, 2008 :: cbensenI met Clay Newton last fall. Then we met in person last December at a conference. At the time he was working with social media initiatives at a major bank. But the entrepreneurial spirit won out & Clay left his job to pursue a dream.
Today Clay’s new venture, Remarkd.com is launching! I’m really excited because [...]
Does your Business need a community?
August 21, 2008 :: cbensenIn my post on Marketing 2.0 for Small Business there was a request that I talk about community. It’s an excellent point and it’s difficult to cover every point at length in one article.
The question was:
Some sites and businesses don’t necessarily need a community, more specifically, not all communities are the same.
