TED is known for showcasing he most innovative and thought provoking speakers and world leaders, all at one conference. I wanted to share a TED demo with you by recent MIT graduate David Merrill who developed something called “siftables.” I wanted to share this video
If you haven’t heard yet Mark Cuban (owner of the dallas mavericks) announced his own open source funding a.k.a stimulus plan. The catch? Well none really, however in order to qualify you need to follow his list of 13 instructions, one of which is to
It’s great that social media education has been a topic frequently discussed on the web. It seems like there is general agreement among social media users/evangelists/consultants that education is crucial. However social media education can be quite vast and can pretty much mean anything. It’s
I’m not talking about essays or writing style, I’m talking about substance, what is your blog/company substance? What makes you, YOU? The number of blogs out there increases every day and that number is only going to increase. You can pretty much find a blog
Something I don’t hear many people talking about is how branding, goals, and measurement are going to affect how you craft and execute your social media marketing strategy. Let’s take a simple example of the airline industry. I’m sure you can think of many different
Simply put the 12 for 12k challenge aims to raise $12,000 for a different charity each month largely through the help of social media. I joined Danny Brown to help spread the word about the 12 for 12k challenge and to help raise money for
I just came across what I now consider to be the best and most effective way to create and promote events online with twtvite (through twitter). Twtvite let’s people rsvp to the event by entering in their twitter profile and also allows them to retweet
The success of a company’s social media effort does not always depend implementation, it depends on how much support the people implementing actually have from their managers and executives. If an employee at a company has an idea for a social media campaign but does
(pic of me in Turkey) John Jantsch recently wrote about his social media system which subsequently followed by similar post by Chris Brogan and Amber Naslund. Actually writing out your social media system is a great way to examine where you are spending your time
What does your company do and what services do they offer? What problem do they solve? Like most companies I’m sure you have your own way of describing what it is you do (internally). Truth is the words you use to describe yourself and the
