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My friend Barry had been unemployed for more than a year when he came to one of my LinkedIn workshops to maximize his site profile. Shortly thereafter he was tapped by an overseas firm for a very lucrative project. My brother Chuck had been at home “playing” with social media. I suggested he focus on [...]
Q: Who needs a social media policy? A: Any person with employees, independent contractors, and visitors who may use your business computer. With more than one-third of the world’s population now online, it makes sense to have guidelines and procedures for cyber citizens to turn to — and if you are a business owner or manager, [...]
Now that 106 million Twitter accounts have been set up, it’s a great time to distinguish yourself from the rank & file. Building an online presence — whatever the platform — is, in fact, under your control. People using the “Global Whiteboard,” i.e. the Internet, must keep in mind that “Whatever you post can and [...]
When I heard the title “The zen of social media marketing,” I knew I had to read this book by Shama Hyder Kabani. Her chapter on Facebook was really detailed with lots of tips, so I thought I’d offer many of the items on Shama’s list of Do’s and Don’ts with my own comments. Facebook [...]
Bay Area Consultants hear SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS from popular speaker Patrick Schwerdtfeger Back by popular request, Patrick presented more detailed online marketing tactics — building from his earlier talk on social media basics delivered last fall. Author of Webify Your Business, Patrick spoke at 127 events around the globe in 2009. He shares social media [...]
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 Thinking Cap, I [...]
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 earlier Twitter 101 lessons [...]
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 influential Social Media Mavens [...]
The last class of the semester will not be the end of studies for many SFSU marketing students. What a wild ride – Jumping off the PR 1.0 trail and on to PR 2.0! And I’m happy to report that many of my 90+ students will be continuing our trek down Revolutionary Road. Below is [...]
Writer’s Block? Rather, so many things to say — How do you pick one post for the day? This reminds me of one of the greatest pieces of advice I have ever received . . . decades ago, and I am still often sharing it with stressed-out students and friends: Whenever Life bombards you with [...]
**GUEST POST** San Francisco State University senior Roxanne Cobbs has been an active member of this semester’s public relations class — and has functioned as a very responsible leader for two small groups, the 2nd of which investigated the topic of “Facebook for Business.” Roxanne’s group put together an excellent power point presentation, and she [...]
Motion in Poetry [read to us during yoga this morning -- couldn't help but think Social Media] HERON by Leza Lowitz Still as silence what I hold in this life is thousands of years of DNA, the mystery of a moment in which what falls away is effort and what changes is everything that grows [...]
So, once again, is Facebook a waste of time? Last post we tried to address the responses of naysayers — the “non early adopters,” the social media non-initiates. Common challenges in any evolutionary cycle. But the fact remains that life does change, and so do we. And nowhere are these changes more dramatic than with [...]
. . . and Twitter is for Dummies, and Friendfeed, well, that’s way over the top! Just how is one supposed to counter . . . and even live with . . . people who just don’t “get it” i.e., that the world has changed dramatically? “Everything never changes. Something has changed and it impacts [...]
And those valuable ties are growing deeper and wider . . . as we TWEET and BLOG and “FRIENDFEED“ According to CrunchBase, “Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. According [...]
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As a journalist for more than thirty years and a marketing instructor for more than a decade, I’ve had a variety of valuable experiences learning to write, to sell, and to teach. But nothing has so excited and energized