Archive for June, 2008
Can We Manage Web 2.0 Mass Content?
Social Media. Web 2.0. Whatever you call it, when we immerse ourselves in some of the cool new tools of the web we can essentially face information overload. In the past 12 months, I have been diving deeply into the Web 2.0 world so that I can wrap my head around it all and determine [...]
Bring on the Branding
For the past few years I have been on a crusade with small business owners and non-profit managers regarding branding. Just because an organization is not a multi-billion dollar corporation does not mean that branding is not important…it is vitally important. The nice thing about branding is that it really is all about emotion. Look [...]
Sensational Social Media
Social media gets more interesting every day for me. Today was definitely one of those days. This afternoon, I participated in a Twebinar. It was a webinar on social media hosted by Chris Brogan and put on by the team at Radian6. To make it more “social” they added in the dynamic of having participants [...]
Brogan’s E-mail Writing Tips
For the past few weeks I have been thoughtfully considering writing a post on useful e-mail writing tips. I am fairly safe in guessing that you are like me digging through a daily barrage of e-mail both professionally and personally. Because we are so bombarded with information push and pull via e-mail, I think it [...]
Twitter’s Connecting Culture
I continue to be amazed by Twitter. As I wrote a couple months ago, I was very uncertain about the business value contained with this micro-blogging 140 character frame. From the outside looking in it seemed like a total waste of time. Something more for my teenage niece than for a business person! However, I [...]
Your Marketing Up in Smoke?
Last weekend here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, merely a few kilometers from my home, a massive forest fire broke out. It was like nothing ever seen in this area in my lifetime. The fire consumed over 2000 hectares of forest and two homes. Given the number of homes in that area of the city it [...]
The Twebinar
What do you get when you mix a Webinar with Twitter? You get a Twebinar. Twebinar is a new term coined by David Alston and Chris Brogan to describe “a mash-up where conversations take place in real time before, during, and after a webinar, on Twitter.” The first ever Twebinar will take place on Thursday, [...]
