Blogging, Guest Post, Personal Branding, Social Media         1 comment

One of my greatest teachers these days is my newest student Gregory Stringer, a 56-year-old disabled retiree who has returned to school for retraining, and that includes a heavy dose of Social Media Networking — which is how we met not long ago.
In the LinkedIn group, FUTURE SOCIAL MEDIA, Endaf …

 Personal Branding, Social Media         No comments

Chicken or Egg: Which came first?

If I write this blog article about how Jeff Bridges should win the Best Actor Oscar for his authentic portrayal of a washed up, alcoholic country singing legend in the semi-romantic film Crazy Heart –
(1) Will my article …

 Blogging, Future of Marketing, Personal Branding         4 comments

How many of us can truthfully say:
“I like how life’s going”

That’s what my 19-year-old neighbor James Hartje said to me last time he dropped by to swap Internet stories.
I had just posted my article Three “F’s” to Achieve Your 2010 Goals which began with the advice to “Follow a …

 Best of 2009, Career Moves, Getting Started, Personal Branding, Sharisax Is Out There         16 comments

Since I subscribe to the philosophy of “Intention,” my 2010 Predictions Article will be geared to Setting Some Goals and Making Them Happen. Here are three ways to do just that:

Follow a Role Model, who’s also a Friend

Find a Buddy — or Seven

Figure out Answers to the list of Questions …

 Future of Marketing, Guest Post, PR 2.0, Personal Branding         No comments

I met Magan online last week when she wrote this fabulous blog post on PROpenMic, a social network for PR students, faculty and professionals. I loved her creative approach to the practice and wanted to share it with my audience.
Magan is a senior at University of Georgia. As a PR …

 Personal Branding, Social Media, Twitter         2 comments

What a great read! — Twitterville by Shel Israel

This is likely to be a “Labor of Love” i.e., chatting with you about all the cool things I learned from this very personal, highly researched, inspirational Social Media MUST READ.
A friend just told me that her secret to reading loads of …

 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 …

 LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Sharisax Is Out There, Social Media         No comments

Getting your LinkedIn ???s answered is a piece of cake

It all started because I couldn’t “link in” to the new Twitter/LinkedIn sync.
I checked “here” and I checked “there” and VOILA, I found that Help [in the upper right hand corner of the LinkedIn home page] has 728 Frequently Asked Questions …

 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, Blogging Basics, Career Moves, Future of Marketing, Getting Started, PR 2.0, Personal Branding, Social Media, Social Media Marketing         2 comments

Lots of people considering social media strategies for business and personal reasons [like job seeking] may not fully appreciate the value of blogging.

the TIME
the SKILLS
the COMMITMENT

Is Blogging Worth all That?
Absolutely, according to Dean Guadagni, Social Media Marketing/Director at Inner Architect and source for two of my previous articles — Networking …

 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 …