Archive for November, 2009
Keith Burtis Consulting is officially launched!
Many of you here that read my blog regularly know that for the past few months I have been transitioning from my role as Social Media Community Manager for Best Buy Remix. It has been exciting and scary all at the same time. I was offered a few different jobs with different companies and opportunities [...]
Email can be a pain, but can we try to respect each others time?
Do you actually read your email or do you just skim it and send back half baked responses? I fear that the world of “Getting Things Done” has been misinterpreted into “I’ve sent you a question via email, but I’m too damn busy to read it and respond” Are you putting too much time in [...]
The Roger Smith Hotel ~ Offline service to online success.
I am writing this blog post from Lilly’s bar in The Roger Smith Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Now, I am certainly a country bumpkin by all intents and purposes. I’d much rather be standing in a river flyfishing in Montana than visiting the always bustling metropolis of New York but the Roger [...]
Real Estate Agent Digital Success Formula ~ Be a resource not a listing.
Recently, I met a few folks that were in the Real Estate business in my hometown of Buffalo at a local coffee shop. It’s interesting and sad to see the state that many of these professionals are in. Some blame the economy and some blame local sales being down for their woes while others seem [...]
My observations of twitter idiots and those enabling them!
This is going to be a really short post, but something I need to get off my chest. I have noticed a rash of people lately that have been following and refollowing me on twitter. It seems that if I don’t follow them back they either remember to try again or they have some script [...]
The Digital Collaboration Connection. Storytelling….Tim Street, JC Hutchins and CC Chapman
This evening I spent a few hours away from my computer (hoorayy) but not away from technology all together as it may be hard to surgically remove my iPhone headphone implants. This time away from the computer allowed me to catch up on some of my favorite podcasts including Marketing Over Coffee, Managing the Gray, [...]
Three Conversation Tools Wanted! What will be needed to keep conversation valuable and relevant!
Everyone is talking about how to scale ‘Conversation Spaces’ like Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. How are we as humans supposed to catch all of the relevant conversations and engage and respond to those asking questions or starting conversations? How do we remember to take action on an opportunity delivered to us by a tweet or [...]
Twitter is not Social Media!
This is a public service announcement to the many folks that write about social media when what they are really talking about is Twitter. I’m not the type to call people out but I read an article today that said that there is no need for social media consultants. The Authors reason behind this was [...]
The coffee shop teaches you all you need to know about marketing your digital presence.
I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop just outside of Buffalo. NY and finishing up some client proposals and organizational work that needs to be done. I frequent this shop often in fact my General Manager Ryan Knapp have claimed it our official office. Why am I writing this you ask? Well, I have been [...]
Social Media Gutcheck! Why do brands bother Pointing to Twitter & Facebook?
I have been observing as many of you have the recent uptick in promotions to Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts by large companies in mainstream media. It’s hard to open a newspaper, turn on the TV or open a magazine without seeing companies asking you to follow them on twitter or fan them on [...]
