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How To Use Twitter To Help Market Events
Yesterday we held our second meeting of Social Media Breakfast Raleigh. We had a great turnout and I would like to thank everyone who came out to participate. As part of the event I asked Jeff Cohen to speak for a few minutes talking about how the volunteers of Raleigh Twestival used Twitter to market [...]
How To Use FriendFeed And Why You Should
FriendFeed is a service that I did not adopt right a way. Mainly because I didn’t appreciate the value of what it had to offer. When I first registered, they didn’t have many users. In the past few months I have come back to FriendFeed and realized its value as a platform to discover news and have micro conversations around news, images, and videos.
Is Social Media Corrupting Our Vision For The Future?
Last week, I sat in front of the computer and watched one of the best interviews on technology, innovation and the social web that I have ever seen. Marc Andreessen’s interview with Charlie Rose was a captivating and engaging view into one of the pioneers on the web that developed technology that directly impacts how we all use the Internet today.
Social Media Isn’t Free
Just like everything else in life, social media isn’t free, far from it. Free is the lure that got most of us started in social media and the fact that it was new and shiny didn’t hurt either.
How To Use Brightkite
I have recived a lot of questions lately about Brightkite recently and why people should use it. Here is a quick walk through video of the interface and a discussion on the value of using the service.
Blog Transfer Update
Hey all, if you haven’t noticed by now I have made some big changes with my blog. I have switched from Typepad to a self-hosted WordPress blog (a post is coming soon on the reason for the switch) That is was posting as been low in the past week becasue I have been spending all [...]
Personal Branding Is The Side Benefit Of Being Credible
Sometimes a quick exchange on Twitter can be more powerful than a incredibly in depth blog post. Today was one of the times. I had an interesting exchange with Beth Harte and Ike Pigott about personal branding which is always a highly controversial topic. The exchange centered around the fact that personal branding shouldn’t be [...]
The Reason We Really Care About Friends, Followers, and Subscribers
The social web is without question is full of people who are endless self promoters trying to draw attention to their content in an effort to make some cash. What it is wrong with that? This is part of the attitude that has help build the United States. However, I don’t think that most people that are active in social media are out to cash in, I believe most just really enjoy the interaction and sense of community.
4 Tips For Sending Links On Twitter
Twitter maybe an over hyped and over discussed service, but it is one that I love. I wanted to write a quick post about the best way to send links in Twitter. Most people that are new to twitter have often told me that one of their biggest problems when getting started was including links [...]
Social Media Is Useless
Social media is completely useless, it can accomplish nothing. We talk about the newest applications and social networks as if they are the cure all for solving every problem. They aren’t the solution, people are. Social media serves as a catalyst that can allow people to build communities to solve problems, support causes, teach, sell, [...]
