my perspectives on the social web, personal branding, and connecting people
Posted in social media on May 14th, 2008
You want in don’t you? To know the secrets of social media and how to use them to your advantage. If only someone would share the secret handshake to that awesome tree-house where all the cool kids hang out. To unlock the secrets and use them for your business - how could you do [...]
Posted in social media, twitter on May 12th, 2008
This past Saturday (May 10th) I had a chance to facilitate an unconference session with Peter Fleck (@pfhyper on Twitter) at MinneBar on the University of Minnesota campus. While Peter and I hadn’t planned it out long in advance, and we had technical difficulties at the beginning, namely to overhead equipment, it went pretty well.
The [...]
Posted in Personal Brand, Skills, Social Networks, life, professional, social media on May 8th, 2008
We live in age when anything is possible, at the touch of a button, or simply for the asking. The modern world is filled with tools and technologies that allow us to do amazing things. From communicating around the world in the blink of an eye, to reporting breaking news by the average person, [...]
Posted in Social Networks on Jan 24th, 2008
Ok, I’ve meant to do this for awhile, but I can’t see any reason to wait any longer.
I’m abandoning Facebook.
Try as I might, there is just nothing of value in Facebook for me. The groups are the only redeeming item on the system, but you have to put up with tons of senseless [...]
Posted in life on Jan 4th, 2008
I just wanted to wish my best to Om Malik, who is recovering from a recent heart attack during the holidays. As a frequent reader, I’ve enjoyed his perspective and personality for the better part of two years - it’s been fun and I look forward to it continuing.
Om, I also look forward to meeting [...]
Posted in google on Dec 17th, 2007
It’s perfectly natural, and something that we’ve wanted for some time. Using the Google login for their online properties was the first step (and not finished mind you), but integrating the GMail address book, and adding basic sharing options is a huge step.
When we talk about social networks connecting people, we rarely take a close [...]
Posted in life, social media, work on Dec 11th, 2007
This is a partial solution to a question that’s been in my mind for some time. Since I created a Social Media Resume (SMR) a few months back, the point that I didn’t enable comments directly on the page has been bothering me.
Part of the reason for that is because I wanted to keep [...]
Posted in blogging, social media on Dec 11th, 2007
I want to thank Jeremiah Owyang for his Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter blog post earlier today. It gave literally hundreds of people the opportunity to find new people to interact with.
The post went up sometime before 10am (Central Time), and Jeremiah Tweeted about the post on Twitter shortly thereafter. Within just a few [...]
Posted in blogging, social media on Dec 11th, 2007
Where did my social media efforts get off track? That is something that I’ve been trying to understand these last few months. Whether writers block, or busy with work, moving, family time, or whatever; I’ve lost track of what I was trying to accomplish in my social media efforts.
This is rather troubling to me since [...]
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