Featured, Future of Marketing, Sharisax Is Out There, Social Media Marketing         13 comments

Social Media Marketing is the BUZZ these days, and that IS what this article is all about: However, according to Axel Schultze. Chairman of the Social Media Academy, and my instructor for the first Leadership Class of 2010:

“Marketing is only ONE component. We must shift in all departments. Social Media …

 Blogging, Featured         13 comments

‘If a tree falls in the woods, and no one hears, is there a sound?”
How can I get more comments on my blog?
Wow, what a great question — especially for a couple of million people now writing blog articles!
It’s an even better question for all the bloggers who’ve been writing …

 Blogging, Blogging Basics, Featured, Getting Started, Social Media Marketing         3 comments

My most recent blogging workshop gathered together a dozen participants with a wide range of experience and understanding of social media — from some attendees who weren’t quite sure what a blog was to a few people with active, sophisticated websites.
What they all shared, however, was the question about whether …

 Best of 2009, Featured, Getting Started, Listening, Social Media Basics         77 comments

A few weeks ago, I participated in a social media webinar that unfortunately went “over the heads” of most of the other attendees. So I invited many of them to contact me for answers to some of their basic questions.

Bob asked me:
“What do Newbies typically do wrong?”

Putting on my …

 Best of 2009, Featured, Getting Started, Twitter, Twitter Basics         17 comments

Today ten new Tweeple will be fluttering around the Twittersphere — at least that’s my hope.
In the next few days, you’ll read about some of the things they learned, but a few people left without their “cheat sheet,” so I’m posting it below . . . as well as the …

 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 . …

 Best of 2009, Blogging, Blogging Basics, Featured, Getting Started, Personal Branding         7 comments

So you’re ready . . . to join the Blogosphere with your own individual views.
It’s not exactly a “piece of cake,” but as my many advisors told me — JUST DO IT, and you will learn a lot as you go.
GETTING STARTED is always the hardest part of a new …

 Best of 2009, Career Moves, Facebook, Featured, Getting Started, LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Social Media Basics         12 comments

Preparing for Professions
LinkedIn is so much more than a “resume repository” advised Dean Guadagni and Susan Hanshaw in a presentation to Marin Professionals.
The two social media marketing strategists outlined a host of ways that online networking on this Web platform can play a significant role in your …

 Best of 2009, Facebook, Featured, Future of Marketing, Future of advertising, PR 2.0, Personal Branding, Social Media Marketing, Twitter         14 comments

Five incredibly talented and deeply entrenched social media THOUGHT LEADERS fielded questions about “How to get the word out” and win more business now that there’s so much FREE stuff out there.
THE VENUE: Grand Hyatt in San Francisco
THE SPONSOR: San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association
THE “WHY”: …

 Best of 2009, Blogging, Featured, Future of Marketing, Social Media Marketing         8 comments

A few weeks ago,  I felt like I’d died and gone to Heaven.
That’s the sensation one has when a passion is being filled to the brimming [tipping?] point.
For a student of the Social Media Revolution, nothing could be more gratifying and fulfilling than to hear a panel of highly …