Have I Lost That Twitter Feeling?
It’s not you Twitter, it’s me. I’ve changed. I mean, I know we’ve been together for years now, but it seems that we have grown apart. Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re great. You’re more than great, you are wonderful. And we’ve had some really good times together, some good laughs, funny moments, and shared some meaningful links. But there’s something missing. We both know it and been avoiding this moment but the time has come. You know what I mean. I think we both need our space. This has been coming on for a long time. We just don’t communicate...
read moreBook Review: Taking on Twitter by Kathi Browne
{EAV_BLOG_VER:3e76408f1526e525} I am one of the lucky few on this planet to have met and work alongside Kathi Browne. She is smart, articulate, and confidant, so when she asked me give her book a read, I was both overjoyed and humbled. I have to say I was really surprised by her book, Taking on Twitter. The book’s subtitle is “Strategic Tweeting for Small Business”, but that really doesn’t do it justice. This book, while great for small businesses looking to get into Twitter, is a perfect beginner’s handbook, a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe of...
read moreWith Resistance, Social Media is Reaching the Classroom
I’ve written my thoughts out before on how social media can be used in the classroom in my post Classroom 2.0 and I still believe that this, in part, is the future of teaching. Last week I saw a piece on CNN.com about a teacher in Los Angeles who is using Twitter in his class with what seems to be very positive results. He has shy, out of place students that are finding a voice, and his overall class interaction has increased. This is exactly what I had been talking about in my earlier post. I’m glad to see this actually start happening. There is one thing that I did...
read moreTriberr, or How I Instantly Extended My Reach to Over 145,000 People.
Dino Dogan was introduced to me by my friend Mark Schaefer. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that Mark has been a bit of a mentor of mine. When Mark told me that Dino was a guy I should pay attention to, I listened. From the get go, I saw that Dino and I were very similar type people. He says what he thinks and doesn’t sugar coat anything. If you want to hear that your ideas are all 100% great, and your design inspiration is nothing less than phenomenal, he is very probably, the wrong consultant for you. If you want to hear the straight truth, check...
read moreSuccessfully Drive Tweeple to You Blog
Granted, this post isn’t for everyone out there, simply because not everyone is trying to get people to read their blog. However, I’ve been asked about this enough, I thought I’d put a post down. Twitter can be your blog’s bestset buddy. Now you can’t use Twitter just for your blog, rather you shouldn’t, but if you do have a blog and you’re trying to get a bit more out of it, try some of these tips. Tweet-easy Website Let’s face it, unless you are one of the stars of the blog sphere, people will not go out of their way to tweet your content....
read moreSocial Media Metrics and What You Should Be Looking At.
ROI this, metrics that. We constantly hear about how to assess your social media benchmarks, and quite a few of them are pretty complicated. Bottom line, especially for small businesses, ROI really doesn’t need to be that hard to calculate. I’ve gathered together a few things that you can be looking at that will give you a basic understanding of how you are doing. The biggest thing here is that there are so many things that can be looked at, and so many that can seem very unrelated. No, you really cannot effectively quantify real, quality relationships, but you can put together...
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