As 2008 draws to a close, I took some time to reflect and analyze how I tweet, what I tweet about and who I tweet with. I used a neat little tool called Wordle to create a visual topic cloud.
This topic cloud, which can also be made with Tweetcloud, makes it pretty clear that I [...]
Tags:Community
The volume of social media marketing conversations is at unprecedented levels. The discussion has gone mainstream, and is so loud that it is causing marketers, advertisers and PR professionals to think about social media and start asking questions. One of the most asked questions is:
Should I be engaging in social media to help achieve my [...]
Tags:listening·monitoring·Social Media
My friends Shannon Paul and Marc Meyer recently tagged me to be the next in line for a blog meme that says I need to outline seven random and/or weird things about myself. This ‘7 random things meme’ has been going on for some time, but I’ve successfully avoided it until now. So, at the [...]
Tags:aaron strout·adam cohen·blagica bottigleiro·gennefer snowfield·marc meyer·shannon paul·shauna nicholson·terry bean·warren sukernek
If you’re regularly active on Twitter for any length of time, you can quickly outgrow the standard way of using the service. By standard, I’m referring to the fact that Twitter provides a straightforward and easy to use web interface to update your status and send/receive direct messages. This method of using Twitter works but [...]
Tags:tips·tools·TweetDeck·Twitter
The accepted cultural norms that determine how much of your life is available for public consumption have changed. Now, you are a celebrity. You can thank the web2.0 and social media movements for this shift. Membership has its privileges, but they aren’t the kind you might be hoping for. No, there won’t be millions of dollars [...]
