Archive for August, 2009
The 7 Questions you need to be asking your Prospective New Media Whiz Kid
For the past two weeks I have been looking at job listings, consulting opportunities and speaking to people who are looking for a professional with experience in the new media communications and marketing space. (My full time contract with Best Buy has expired) Evidently there are very few of us that have proven ourselves to [...]
Purely for fun! The run to 7,777
Good Luck!
Ok, so it hasn’t been since early on in my social media career that I have gotten excited about new followers on twitter. In fact I am among the pure belief that raw number of followers means absolutely nothing. Today, I am going to go a bit off that path because I believe that [...]
Prove it, Social Media ROI for Business… A SXSW Preview
Help Us get to SXSW
YIPEE!! It’s getting to be that time of year again! Preparations for SXSW are kicking into high gear. The weather here in the Northeast promises to get cooler and the Salmon are swimming upstream. This is my favorite time of year. The web comes alive with activity, the streams boil with [...]
Life is a Journey, Not a Destination
I once heard that life is not a destination but rather a journey. I have lived that mantra ever since and my professional life is once again taking steps forward on a path of its own. For the last nine months I have been working on the Best Buy Remix API project with great success. [...]
The Passionate Community and its Fearless Leader
A couple days ago we talked a bit about what communities are made of. We discussed how peoples interests defined the communities they are involved in. How people tend to flock with like-minded individuals. Today we are going to talk about how you can build a community that participates and contributes to the overall betterment [...]
Passion Post #2 – Photography
Hobbies have an interesting way of sucking me in! I started seriously studying and taking digital photographs about a year and a half ago. I started with a Canon point and shoot and now use the Canon XS DSLR with two lenses and a couple filters. I recently got back from a honeymoon in Alaska [...]
Your Interests define your Communities
Community, Community, Community… It’s been a serious buzzword over the course of the last two years. Marketers want to build community to generate a targeted group of people to promote products and services to. Social media managers want to build community to better understand market trends, help review products, answer questions and more. So, what [...]
What is Marketing on the Web?
Is it Web Marketing, Is it Social media Marketing, Is it SEO, SEM, or Web 2.0! Have traditional marketing tactics like building an email list, google ad words and keyword optimization fallen second to relationship building and follower counts in social networks? Chris Brogan and Julien Smith are coming out with a new book called [...]
