Published in October 31st, 2007
This post is dedicated to my sister (who was dumbfounded yesterday to hear that we bought costumes). To explain - we are very conservative. But on Sunday when our daughter went back to college, she really pressed for a costume dinner tonite to celebrate Halloween.
So for all of you with little ones, take [...]
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Published in October 30th, 2007
My journey in the past few months has been influenced by so many people! Three months ago Dan Schawbel commented on a couple of blog posts & soon after asked me to help edit his magazine.
I purchased the first edition & was totally impressed with the depth of the information. It also provided much [...]
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Published in October 29th, 2007
A friend who’s doing consulting work asked me “Everyone’s asking about the ROI on community building. At your work at ACDSee, your work in building a community, does your management require some sort of justification or lead generation goals etc?”.
The answer to the question is that no one has asked me to justify my proposed [...]
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Published in October 28th, 2007
Do you have traditions in your family? Sunday dinner has become important to us ever since my daughter started dating. She’s a freshman in college now, so it’s even more important. I enjoy cooking a big dinner & then relaxing with everyone. This morning was impromptu in that we invited her boyfriend’s family to [...]
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Published in October 26th, 2007
Maybe it’s a result of being a librarian for almost a decade but I have a fairly low tolerance for disorganization. This isn’t to say that I never become disorganized, but I’ve learned that being highly organized is key to working efficiently! I love to multitask & my organization systems allow me to do that [...]
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Published in October 25th, 2007
Utilizing social media requires a huge paradigm shift for people. In previous posts I’ve talked about people overcoming their fear of ‘talking to strangers’. For a corporation it’s an even bigger step! For an organization to adopt the use of social media tools there are many facets. First the enterprise needs to commit to [...]
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Published in October 24th, 2007
Jeremiah Owyang has a video on media snackers on his blog tonight. And he asked some of us to respond if we respect media snackers.
The video provides the definition of people my daughter’s age & how they get bits of info here & there. I noted the point that they utilize free spaces like Flickr [...]
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Published in October 23rd, 2007
and maybe the bigger question is, Does it matter?
On Sunday I read Justin Kownacki’s post where he talks about living in a fly over state in terms of social media. My first thought was how I jokingly refer to myself as being ‘geographically challenged’. But after thinking about it, I realize how thankful I am [...]
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Published in October 22nd, 2007
A week ago I realized that no searches for Connie Benson are hitting my blog. I see that there are 3-4 searches each day for my name. And tonite I see that just Connie is catching Google’s attention too.
Last week when I pondered this problem on Twitter I had to back up & explain what [...]
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Published in October 21st, 2007
There are so many unknowns when a person starts a new job. In addition to those, my question was, how will my role play out? because the Community Manager position is a bit nebulous. I knew that one of the goals of my first visit was to understand the company’s vision & philosophy so that [...]
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