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,…
The most recent flap about what PR is, stemming from the July 5 “Spinning the Web” New York Times story, still bothers me somehow. Why? I think I have already…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
First, thanks to Shel Holtz for writing more extensively on this: http://bit.ly/shelsys. The "PR Is Dead" meme ironically lives quite heartily, but this article by Fuat Kircaali, founder of Sys-Con…
Podcamp Boston 4 is Coming, August 8-9: I’m a little disappointed that I have a partial conflict on the 8th (it’s family, so I’m not exactly sad about it), but…
The April 15 Tax Day tea parties were a great example of grass roots, viral organization to move thousands of people (whether you believe the reported attendance or not) to…
Star Trek Screening Was Social Media Marketing? Well, it’s not just the Twitter reaction, which helped and becomes more and more valuable as Twitter gains steam. But the Word of…
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