Archive for June, 2009

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #13: Larry Lawfer

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. I have just $1,800 left to raise, but I can't get there without help from more people like ...

Social Media Top 5: Social CRM Paparazzi, Leaning on Young PR Pros, and Fighting the Elements

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Rockstars of Social CRM- in Pictures!: I blogged about my side impressions from this event early in the week, but Warren Sukernik put together these entertaining slides that give the perspective of someone who joined the event via Webinar: Rockstars of Social CRMView more documents from Warren Sukernek. Are We Setting Up ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Fundraising and Training Update

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

I have been keeping up (mostly) with my Pan-Mass Challenge training, but have been a bit slow in editing videos (you're welcome). The reason? I got a new Flip Ultra HD, which will result in much clearer photos, but also necessitated new editing software. This short bit from an ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #12: Adam Cohen

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. I have just $2,000 left to raise, but I can't get there without help from more people like ...

Getting Impatient with Social Media

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

I attended Radian6's "Social Media Rockstars" Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management) event last night, and confirmed one thing: I am getting impatient. I'm impatient for social media tools and strategies to be considered- intuitively- part of the whole company fabric, rather than some special new thing. I'm impatient for social media-themed events to ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #11: Tom Lewis

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159. So far I have profiled PMC sponsors whom I ...

Social Media Top 5: Social Media’s Dead- No, It’s a Clique- No, It’s a Jelly Donut

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Social Media is Dead (?) Geoff Livingston wrote the salacious phrase in the title to his recent blog post explaining why he was discontinuing his involvement in the Blog Potomac events. The gist I took from the post was that social media is no longer a shiny new tool, the province ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Heroes #10: Ann Handley

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This is an ongoing series profiling some of the people I believe to be the real heroes of the Pan-Mass Challenge: the sponsors who donate their money to fund cancer research. Please considering joining them by donating any amount to http://pmc.org/DH0159. Ann Handley is someone who I, as a public ...

Constant Context

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

I have been reading folks saying that a downfall of Twitter is the constant absence of context in 140-character Tweets, and similarly short Facebook updates. Too bad. People are there. Make it work. Make your own context. Again and again. People have short attention spans, not just because of Twitter. People ...

Hooray for Twitter’s ‘Idle Class!’

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

So a recent Harvard Business School study said 10% of Twitter users produce 90% of Tweets (http://bit.ly/hbstwit). Does that make Twitter a "Broadcast" medium? I don't think so. The lurkers, the "Idle Class" of social media, are important . Just as they are in blogs. If the 90% of idles are ...