Blogging,Briefly stated,Interview         22 comments

“Write your own blog post everyday, but spend twice as much time reading other people’s blogs – and comment,” That was just one of the valuable suggestions discussed by the Sleepy Blogger, aka Robyn Tippins, who visited my PR class at San Francisco State when we first started to learn about social media back in 2009. Here are [...]

 Interview,LinkedIn,Sharisax Is Out There         2 comments

Crowdsourcing is part of our online democracy, i.e., the people are asked, and the people answer. I happen to like the way Wikipedia defines the term: Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee, to a large group of people, through an open call. For example, the public may be invited [...]

 Interview,LinkedIn,Sharisax Is Out There         4 comments

Expatriate Coach Anne Egros uses social media to check in back home, especially with LinkedIn — where I met her via a comment on the guest post by Victoria Ipri: 8 Tips to Get Astounding Results with LinkedIn Anne Egros, Pharm D, is an independent professional coach, based in Brussels, the Capital of Europe and home [...]

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There         9 comments

Mayo Clinic is opening a Center for Social Media to train other health care organizations to use Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to connect patients and doctors. The new center will run workshops, offer consulting and host conferences. This article is actually about two topics and one question: 1) How a top U.S. hospital recognizes the [...]

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There         4 comments

Not everyone can spend the day Tweeting, Linking, Blogging, and Facebook-ing — even if he or she wants to. That’s why my friend and fellow BACN member, Mike Van Horn hired Andrea Dwyer and introduced her to me: I want to connect you with Andrea Dwyer, the VA who helps me with biz social media. [...]

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There         5 comments

SEO and the “Synergy of Internet Marketing” lead to Ghost-Writing Actually, it’s The Way of the Web: one online interaction . . . leads to a relationship . . . leads to a business opportunity. I’m not going to “tease” you [or bore you] with all the names and places, but Kerry Zukus and I [...]

 Interview,PR 2.0         13 comments

As a university public relations instructor for many years, I have always been excited to compare notes with PR pros in the field. And with the revolutionary changes and “New Rules” for PR and Marketing, I am particularly pleased to meet a pro who “gets it.” And David Landis gets it so well that his [...]

 Interview,Sharisax Is Out There         18 comments

Whenever Leora Wenger’s photo icon pops up on my Facebook and Twitter pages, I get a very warm, happy feeling. It’s only been a few months since we met online through super-networker Larry Brauner, but I now consider Leora one of my really good friends and someone whom I can count on for support and [...]

 Guest Post,Interview,Sharisax Is Out There         6 comments

Social media has changed my life — and if you are reading this, no doubt social media will be changing your life AND your business, as well. Social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook have allowed me to meet and engage with a host of new friends — this is a very supportive community [...]

 Interview,Personal Branding,Sharisax Is Out There         12 comments

With TEN LinkedIn groups in common, it is no wonder that Gregory Stringer and I have become online buddies. We met on the Future Social Media group in response to Endaf Kerfoot’s invitation to introduce ourselves. Here was Gregory’s response: Hi! I am a student of e-Commerce, currently seeking my AAS in Web Design. I [...]

 Blogging,Interview         7 comments

Lyndi Thompson is an M&M peanut-aholic and treehugger-wannabe, but she has also taken her nerdy HTML and CSS skills into the Blogosphere with her new blog lyndit.com. I met Lyndit in Twitterville after she happened upon my article on 10 Mistakes Made by Social Media Newbies. Apparently Lyndit didn’t want to make any of them, [...]

 Interview         3 comments

“Social Media’s PR Problem” was the title of the September 17 blog post by Janis Johnson, whom I met AFTER we both attended a panel discussion featuring four Bay Area social media practitioners in an event sponsored by the North Bay chapter of Women in Consulting (WIC), a San Francisco Bay area organization with more [...]