Archive for September, 2009
Organizational Development Network of WNY
Today, I had the distinct pleasure to talk with a great group of business leaders in the Buffalo and Rochester area. Our meeting was held at the newly renovated New Era Cap company headquarters and I think the group learned a lot. I wont actually know for another hour or so because we are currently [...]
Have a Boring Product or Service? Locate Related Passions!
I was having a discussion with Shannon Boudjema a few days ago about which brands are best to utilize social media. Her answer was that she could not think of one industry, service or product that could not benefit from the social space. We agreed that social can benefit PR, Marketing, HR, and a myriad [...]
The Facebook Keyword Search Feature and my Question for Marketing Over Coffee
As many of you know there are very simple ways to monitor real time conversations on twitter. I wrote about one such technique recently HERE. However, Facebook has been to my knowledge pretty much a walled garden and does not offer any real easy way to aggregate searches via RSS. So this post is going [...]
Awesome Blog World Promotional Video
Blog World, is sure to be one of the most insightful, enlightening, and network friendly events this year. Coming to the Las Vegas Convention center October 15th through the 17th Blog World will be sure to please!I am happy to say that I will be speaking on a panel on Thursday morning, but the real [...]
10 Social Media Power Users Share One Line of Wisdom
Can you distill your social media and digital best practices down to one simple phrase? Do you have a one liner that that distills the essence of social networking and the new media space? I asked this very question to a diverse group of social media power users including myself and here were [...]
It’s a twitter Spam Record!
It’s a twitter spam Record! I blocked 15 new follows in a row today!
Listen!
Recording of this post. It needed some emotion!!!!
Social media is becoming more and more like an NHL hockey game. Blocking on Facebook, Poking on Twitter, and slashing the opponent of your Mafia Family. I for one have been very vocal about the [...]
Two Simple Steps to Monitor Real Time Conversations
This blog post is a tutorial about how to set up conversational searches to monitor keywords and key phrases in twitter. Next week I will show you how you can leverage a similar tool in facebook. Much of this will be basic knowledge to the seasoned veteran but I am finding more and more people [...]
The Social Media ROI Friendfeed Room
Today, I was on twitter having a discussion that bridged myself, Christopher S Penn, Amber Naslund, Olivier Blanchard Jacob Morgan and Sean Bohan about the value of Social Media and Metrics. The problem was that the discussion was fragmented and very hard to follow, not to mention high noise for those of my followers [...]
Matthew Ebel Tribute with Photos by Keith Burtis & CC Chapman
Many of you who read my blog regularly know that I am very passionate about photography and every once and a while I like to take a break from the strategy, community and social media talk. I am by no means a professional photographer, but I can hold my own with the lens and [...]
How Twitter Search Changed the Life of a Stranger in a Coffee Shop
This post started out as a how-to but I decided to scrap it to get to the story of how twitter search changed a strangers life in a coffee shop. If you want to know more about real time conversational search just subscribe to my feed as I will cover it more in depth in [...]
