When I work with groups on their strategic use of social media I assure them, “size doesn’t matter” and they look at me funny. We have been told our whole lives that bigger is better. As it turns out, when it comes to building a community via social media and specifically when you amass a [...]
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Category Archives: Weblogs
Saxum Social Media Summit in review
I couldn’t attend the Saxum Social Media Summit but I followed along, while I could, on Twitter. The chatter seemed to be positive and as I scrolled through the tweets I ran across one of my favorite OKState students and Saxum Intern, Mindy Robson. Since Mindy was there I asked if she would mind sharing [...]
Legal implications of social media
Yesterday I met with Ryan Lobato, and Rachel Blue both with the law firm McAfee & Taft. I will let you read their bios but both their areas of emphasis are IP (intellectual property) and Ryan has a special interest in Social Media. We spent almost two hours talking just about legal issues [...]
Free Software Every (PR) Student Should Have (Fall 2009)
The beginning of another school year is right around the corner and I have a feeling it isn’t just the students who are financially strapped this year. Parents, take notice, you might not need to shell out several hundred dollars for software this year – although I would suggest you purchase a smart phone for [...]
Morgan Stanley doesn’t know bupkis about teen (JB4520 Alumni) Tweeters
The recent Morgan Stanley Report regarding teen usage of social media has generated a lot of discussion. What caught my eye was twitter and the statement, “Teens don’t use Twitter because no one is reading their tweets. Twitter is totally different when you have thousands of people following you versus only a handful of your [...]
Content vs. Everything Else
A few days ago I tweeted a link to an article by Brian Solis and received a response from @abbyannette regarding the visual appeal of his site PR 2.0. In the interest of full disclosure: 1) I know Abby, she was a student of mine and I have the highest level of respect for her [...]
My wife isn’t on twitter – and that’s okay
Image by Jill_Ann via Flickr
It’s true, she can’t be found on twitter, brightkite, flickr, jaiku, identi.ca, linkedin, digg, magnolia, pandora, stumbleupon, tumblr, vimeo, youtube, ebay, technorati, twitte, friendfeed, posterous, delicious, wordpress, pownce, tinyurl, funnyordie, kwippy, yahoo, gmail, ustreamtv, and others. And, that’s okay.
I can be found all those places – and more. And that’s okay.
Social [...]
Mike Koehler is a social media guru
I say this in jest and Mike knows it. We talked earlier about the concept of social media gurus/experts/consultants/etc. (by the way, @mattgalloway has some great social media consultant jokes) and both agree when we hear these terms used in conjunction with social media it makes us cringe. Then again, maybe it makes Mike cringe [...]
Pro Bono Part Deux
So much conversation generated, here and elsewhere, as a result of the last post. Since Chad and Abby brought their questions/comments here I will respond here and hope it generates even more conversation – which is always the goal.
Let’s start with Chad -
Is it about money? Not directly and let me clarify this right now, [...]
No Blitching Please (Bitching while blogging)
Interesting comment from my sister (I would provide a link to her website but she doesn’t have one… ahem) regarding the rules listed below. Her point was simply those rules listed are really the rules for civil communication in general. I would agree and add many of us sometimes need to be reminded of [...]