Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Well, It's official- Social Media is For Narcissists. That's according to a study called The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement produced by San Diego State University and Youth Pulse. As far as I can tell, the study is some sort of knock on Genreation Y being self-centered. ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
When marketing blogger and fellow social media Bostonian Susan Getgood alerted me to "blog With Integrity," (www.blogwithintegrity.com), I was intrigued, for a few reasons;
There has been a lot of talk among bloggers (especially but not limited to "Mommy Bloggers"), about attempts by the government to regulate sponsored blog posts. ...
Posted in Public Relations, social media | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
UDATE: Kara Brickman has a great summary of linkjs to PodCamp Boston 4 blog posts, photos and sessions,at http://karabrickman.com/2009/08/invasion-of-the-pod-tweeple/
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As one of many folks who have attended all four Boston PodCamps going back to 2006, it has been interesting to see this event grow- ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Scoble Declares Twankruptcy
Let's set aside for a moment the fact that some words shouldn't be "Twitterized with a "tw" in front; by "twankruptcy" I am talking to something akin to "RSS bankruptcy" or "inbox bankruptcy" where people xapp all their unread items because there are simply too many. Well, ...
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
What the F**k is Social Media (One Year Later):
Last year at Podcamp Boston 3, the irrepressible Marta Kagan co-presented a presentation called "What the F**k is Social Media?" Now, she has updated it- it's an entertaining slide deck that manages to put across some compelling statistics about social media, some ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
How to Get Blog Traffic Without Really Trying:
I often refer to this blog- along with my other social media ventures- as a lab. I want to see what works, what people like, what gets you to read, respond and interact. Lately, I have had three instances that showed working methods ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Five Reasons Why your Business Conference Sucks: When I finally met Mack Collier at the recent MarketingProfs B2B Forum Tweetup, I joked that now that we had met in person I no longer need to link to is blog.
I lied.
Mack actually used the conference as a positive example in a ...
Posted in Social Media Top 5, social media | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live:
For one thing, it changes the way we read TIME Magazine, I guess. Actually, for an ultra-mainstream publication, TIME delves deeply but still in plain English about such things as Hashtags and live-Tweeting of events. This is a much better article than I ...
Posted in Social Media Top 5, social media | 4 Comments »
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Getting Out of the Echo Chamber:
My good friend Kyle Flaherty blogged recently about getting out of the social media "echo chamber," and the resultant decrease in his activity blogging and on Twitter. There has been a lot of talk about taking social media out of the "echo chamber" so everyone ...
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