Archive for June, 2011

Social Media Top 5: (Mostly) Nice About Infographics, Blog Topics, Sock Monkeys & Brand Control

Friday, June 24th, 2011

1- I Don't Hate All Infographics I have posted here grumpily about infographics in the past. People rely on them too much, many of them are too busy, and rather than simplifying a complicated topic, they often make a simple topic terrifyingly complex. These things are not shiny tools to make ...

Social Media Top 5: Through Being Awesome, Content Quality & My Checkins Are Interesting

Monday, June 20th, 2011

One: OK, You're Awesome- Now Get to Work We hear a lot in the social media world about being "awesome." some of the people who espouse this are great friends, others are simply well-known within our little industry. I'm all for building up our confidence with supportive epithets like this, ...

Pan-Mass Challenge Update: All Momentum, Fundraising & Miles

Monday, June 13th, 2011

It has been a while since I have blogged about my Pan-Mass Challenge efforts, but that has not been for lack of activity. It's hard to believe it, but the PMC is less than two months away (August 6-7), and I am starting to feel a sense of urgency about ...

Social Media Top 5: Do You Know Where That App’s Been?; QR and Proud; and *sigh* Dunbar Again

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

The Social Media Equivalent of Picking Rotten Food Off the Ground and Eating It in Front of Your Friends Recently on Facebook, friends have tagged me in a "Friendmatrix" photo. FM is an app that takes photos of your Facebook friends and makes a collage out of them. My first question, ...

Social Media Top 5: End of the Social Media Consultant? Wrong; More Infographic Evil; and Flipping Grilled Cheese

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Flickr photo by Joe Cascio"][/caption] The Age of Social Media Gurus Ends, the Age of Integration of Social Begins; or the Age of Wrapping the Startlingly Obvious in Bacon and Calling it Vision Since I got involved in social media, it was a given- to me at least-that ...