Blogging, Facebook, Getting Started, LinkedIn, Sharisax Is Out There, Social Media, Twitter         19 comments

My Laney College students are participating in social media to build writing and reading skills. For many of them, however, this is a significantly new experience, i.e., creating blogs and signing up for Twitter.

What is Social Media and why is it important?

and . . . here are many of their …

 Best of 2009, Blogging, Facebook, Getting Started, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter         8 comments

CHART YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROGRESS:
Want to manage your social media sites? Yesterday’s post reviewed Chris Brogan’s 19 tips: Resolve to Manage your Online Presence.
Today you’ll find a handy spreadsheet to use for weekly check-offs. And there’s space to add other tasks . . .  like writing your blog post

Now …

 Best of 2009, Blogging, Facebook, Getting Started, Social Media Basics, Twitter         13 comments

“Social Media: Step-by-step”

The End of The Year is made for reflection, clean up, and planning for the future.
Six months ago, social media luminary Chris Brogan published 19 tips to manage your SM online  presence.
And I most likely did what a lot of my friends might have done, i.e. …

 Blogging, Book review, Facebook, Future of Marketing, Getting Started, LinkedIn, Reading, Social Media Basics, Social Media Marketing, YouTube         No comments

You’ve got to be more than a Social Media Newbie to appreciate the depth and breadth of research that went into compiling the 334-page compendium The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
Author Tamar Weinberg is a community manager for Mashable, clearly the best source for Social Media …

 Facebook, Getting Started, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Media Basics, Twitter         7 comments

It almost doesn’t make a difference where you are on the Social Media learning curve, there’s always more to discover and integrate into your strategy . . . even if you are just getting started.
"I am always doing that which I do not know how to do in order …

 Best of 2009, Facebook, Getting Started, Personal Branding, Sharisax Is Out There, Social Media         10 comments

“To be or not to be . . .”
“To DO, or NOT to do . . .”

I got a “dressing down” the other day when I asked a question on various social media platforms.
This was my message:
“ARE PRESS RELEASES DEAD?  I would like to publish an article …

 Facebook, Future of Marketing, Getting Started, Personal Branding, Reading, Sharisax Is Out There, Social Media Marketing         2 comments

Twitter is like my personal bookstore, but so is most of Web 2.0
photos by Howard Blum
Sharing is one of the amazing benefits of Web 2.0, so it’s no wonder that Twitter is so important to me — both as a source and a repository. Here are some of the …

 Blogging, Facebook, Personal Branding         10 comments

Just over six months ago [in April 2009], I wrote my first blog post with the announced intention to aim for “A-List status.”
Four months later I wrote an article about the “day I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven” — it was actually a report of a panel …

 Blogging, Facebook, Future of Marketing, Getting Started, PR 2.0, Personal Branding, Reading, Social Media, Twitter         No comments

Coming back from vacation is Hard Work, but if that “work” is “play,” then it can be a lot of fun — albeit different from three days in Las Vegas to celebrate my birthday.
So my “coming back plan” is to catch up on my blog-reading and blog-writing at the same …

 Blogging, Facebook, Guest Post, LinkedIn, PR 2.0, Personal Branding         6 comments

Migrating from wordpress.com to wp.org was one tough challenge — and then finding my ideal template was an even bigger one.
Thank heavens for all the support available online — especially via the LinkedIn Q&A feature. [See previous guest post.]
One question led to another once Australian problem solver James Hilton offered …

 Blogging, Facebook, Getting Started, PR 2.0, Reading, Social Media Marketing, Twitter         3 comments

What are they all talking about
My friend and colleague Zahid Lilani recently posted links to eight articles he’d found interesting. So I thought I’d do the same — and get through some of my emails at the same time. If you read any of the suggested articles, please feel …

 Best of 2009, Blogging, Facebook, Featured, LinkedIn, Social Media Basics, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, YouTube         17 comments

As a Bay Area Consultant myself, I was thrilled to attend my first BACN breakfast meeting and hear Patrick Schwerdtfeger tell 80 of us all about his “Social Media Victories.”
Patrick’s one-hour talk featured case studies where organizations leveraged Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube to increase revenue and brand awareness . …