Archive for April, 2009
The Remix Challenge
Recently, Best Buy Remix has teamed up with Top Coder to bring to you the Remix Challenge. The website, held at http://www.remixchallenge.com/ has all of the details. The first of many challenges is called the Computer Experience beginning Friday April 24th and ends on Friday May 1st. This challenge is an idea phase. The Contest [...]
Twitter Monitizing through Spam Features and the Friendfeed Facelift
Twitter Spam Model? Today I was going about my business when my cellphone started beeping incessantly. I was receiving three direct messages in a row from twitter. I have all of my direct messages sent to my blackberry, because people like to get in touch with me on twitter and it’s an easy way to [...]
Social Media, ROI, Metrics and Petsmart
There is much talk in the blogosphere and Twittersphere lately about how to measure the importance of social media when using traditional metrics and ROI (Return on Investment). My position is that if you’re operating a business and cannot figure out a way to measure your social media activities as they relate to the bottom [...]
The Business within Social Media – The Dozen Do’s
Yesterday, I gave you a dozen things that you should not do from the perspective of business in social media. That really sucks! I like it when people give guidance! Ok, Ok, today is the Dozen Do’s of Social media. Please, if you haven’t read the Dozen Don’ts, please do that first. Also, I know [...]
The Business within Social Media – The Dozen Don’ts
In this day and age of social media and digital technology, there are a lot of businesses big and small, asking to be informed about the space. One of the projects on my list of to-do’s is to create a manifesto of social media for business. The manifesto will talk about some of the common [...]
How will you leave the Earth Behind?
How will You… I have a question for you. In your job, your business, and your actions each and every day, what are you doing to make the WORLD a better place than you left it yesterday? Are you committed to leaving your children and grandchildren an Earth that is better off or worse off [...]
Business is not hip to Twitter
I have performed an experiment over the past weeks and months giving blatant opportunities to anyone hip enough to monitor the opportunities on twitter. Like we say in the fishing world, “I barely got a nibble” Home Renovation I am getting married in one month. May 16th to be exact, and I am in the [...]
Skills of a Social media Ninja – Part 2 (Social Media School)
I was having a discussion recently with Jim Turner of Social Media Sphere TV about how there are so many skills that can be learned in the Social media space. We talked about how we are seeing college courses popping up and even some online certification courses for new media. I am not going to [...]
Skills for the Social Media Ninja – Part 1 (Monitoring)
I love hearing the term Social Media Expert and seeing how widely debated the term is among different peer groups. I am far from “Ninja” status, but I can honestly say that I spend many hours training at the Dojo each day. I also love to hear when folks say “Your already a social media [...]
Is your blog or website “Real People” friendly?
Have you ever been walking down a busy street and glanced at the person on the left or right of you and wondered, “If this person visited my blog or website would they have a clue what half of the features are?” I have! Now,maybe that makes me weird, but I know for fact that [...]
