Published in December 17th, 2007
Mack Collier asked if I was going to post my presentation from the Web Community Forum. Is it ironic that I met Mack in a group in Facebook? And later I learned that he has a smashing marketing blog called The Viral Garden.
It was a panel so we didn’t have a formal presentation. Instead we [...]
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Published in December 8th, 2007
Teresa Valdez Klein, Steve Broback, Jason Preston & Kim of Parnassus put on a great conference. It was wonderful to meet so many bloggers & Facebook aficionados!
Tris Hussey was live blogging & provided great commentary on the following sessions:
Jeremiah’s Keynote was excellent. He put his slides up on his blog.
Mari Smith also provided comprehensive coverage [...]
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Published in December 8th, 2007
That was the topic of my first presentation as a Community Manager/Social Media geek at Web Community Forum 07 in Seattle. It was also my first opportunity to meet bloggers in person. (more on that to come).
Tris Hussey of BlogNation did some great live blogging. He covered our session on Facebook Groups. Jake McKee & [...]
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Published in December 2nd, 2007
Blog commenting is probably one of the easier things to accomplish when I’m traveling. I’m using Jeremiah Owyang’s tip of having blog ideas created in advance.
In my first post I listed my methodology for starting or rebuilding a blog. I’ve used it twice. There’s an aspect that’s more important than that & it bears repeating:
“It’s [...]
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Published in November 26th, 2007
Like that question has never been answered before! So why am I addressing it? Well, someone asked my opinion & after coming up with 5 steps & prioritizing them I thought the process should be shared.
Here is my advice for starting a blog along with some resources to get you started.
1. Branding
Who are you & [...]
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Published in November 25th, 2007
Twitter is a bird of many colors. I’ve seen it used in many creative ways:
Job vacancies are posted that I doubt ever hit traditional boards
requests for sightseeing & restaurant recommendations
tweet-ups (people meet at a certain place when attending an event)
Recently I had won an iPhone. AT&T doesn’t offer service in my area so I blogged [...]
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Published in November 24th, 2007
Last night Twitter was taken down for a bit. There was a warning sign & some of us hung around just to see what would happen… What would happen to all those people addicted to Twitter? That was the question.
I suggested that we take the conversation to IM, but I saw some Pownce usernames [...]
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Published in November 16th, 2007
If this post seems oddly succinct it’s because someone asked me to provide my top suggestions for networking. In writing out some notes & then talking about it, I was able to distill it into a short list.
#1. Meet people as people first.
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth the risk - put yourself out [...]
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Published in November 13th, 2007
Do you question the value of the friending procedure on social networks? Do you have any contact with those people after the initial acceptance? I’ve written about Shyness in Social Networking & this article explains the underlying reasons behind it.
The procedure isn’t the issue. It’s what you do after that’s important. I found the perfect [...]
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Published in November 11th, 2007
Does a brand have personality? This question brought more to mind:
If you asked your customers, would they say that your brand has personality?
As a marketer how do you give your brand personality?
As a Community Manager how can I give our ACDSee brand personality?
All of those questions resulted from reading about Rohit Bhargava’s new book.
Faceless companies [...]
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