Janet Fouts, author of Social Media Success!, and Beth Kanter, author of The Networked Nonprofit, have recently collected a selection of ‘how to’ tweets related to social media and non-profits, and compiled them all in #SOCIAL MEDIA NONPROFIT tweet. I got a copy of the book yesterday, and it’s a quick read, as the [...]
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In this ‘off the record’, or ‘unattributed’, or whatever you want to call it, Tweet, Nick Bilton gets the nitty-gritty on how Zuckerberg feels about user privacy. Now, to be fair, I’m sure he’s not totally against some user privacy, but it’s the internet people! Other than your date-of-birth, emails, social security number, and your [...]
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Know what you want…
Seems simple right? In my experience, dealing with hundreds of clients over the last 12 years, very few can actually quantify what they want.
Some tell me they want marketing help (far too vague), but when I ask about success metrics, they almost invariably cite traffic as their primary success measure. [...]
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Marketing Socially: Robyn Tippins from Converge SC on Vimeo.
FYI, the very first of my talk is cut off, but what you miss is my telling you that I started a diaper company in 1998, at age 22, and in month one, using forums to market it, we grossed ~$30k. The video picks up there.
Social [...]
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Posted in web 2.0 on Nov 19th, 2008
Jeff Pulver is putting together a conference and is looking for speakers.
So I’m putting out this “Call for Speakers” and looking for creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to come forward and pitch me about a topic they are passionate about and would like to speak about. (Practical talks are also welcome.)
What I hope to bring together is [...]
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At BlogWorld Expo, I was interviewed by Network Solutions to answer a few questions that their customers might have. There are a serious of almost a dozen videos up now, with some major big names in social media, but with my ego being monstrous, I’ve only linked to the ones I’m in
The [...]
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Posted in blogging, personal, web 2.0 on Oct 14th, 2008
BizTechDay is October 25th at the Hilton in San Francisco. Tim Ferris, of 4 Hour Work Week fame (you may have seen my own praises for his book here), is the keynote, and if he was the only speaker there, the conference would be worth more than the $250ish that it costs. Of [...]
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Posted in blogging, community, personal, web 2.0 on Oct 12th, 2008
After seeing a series of tweets from a broad range of cool men, I stumbled upon Chris Brogan’s newest site, Dadomatic. The site is a range of posts from men who are taking fatherhood seriously.
From Eric Peterson:
Children can be so inspirational. It’s neat to see how they grow and develop, and even teach adults [...]
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Posted in blogging, politics, web 2.0 on Oct 11th, 2008
Much has been made of Obama’s slick use of social media, and while McCain’s team is doing a pretty good job w/videos, Obama is clearly doing a better job giving his supporters sharable media.
One easy way to get the word out is with buddy icons. I remember back when I was active in politics, [...]
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Posted in Geek, open, web 2.0, yahoo! on Sep 12th, 2008
It’s always nice to be around a throng of smart people, but when those people are developers and those developers are crazy creative and ready to hack, it makes your day even better. Hackday 08 has finally arrived!
Since Web 2.0 Expo, a few trickles of information has been coming out about what we’re planning, [...]
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