Last updated: January 7, 2009 Note: I’m no PR or communications consultant. FINDING THE LEADERS To find out who’s talking and recognize some of the leaders, you’ll want to search for your interest area on sites like AllTop and Technorati. AllTop is a good starting place as it organizes popular blogs into topic areas. – 60 second video “The company you keep” part 2: forcing success upon yourself Switch up your influences & build relationships: blogs to cut & add in 2009 How to get to work, now. One word for 2009: Impact. Step 1. Urs E. MORE >>

link] Twitter: vanceOpel alltop Social Media Today Categories Branding Creative Agencies Government Leadership Marketing Measurement Media Non Profit PR Social Media Twitter Subscribe in a reader Add me to your TypePad People list « 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For | Main | Intestine-Based Decision-Making » August 07, 2009 Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate A few weeks back there was a new report that was written dubbed "ENGAGEMENTdb" that looked a little further into social media participation.  link] Other.: link] Other.: MORE >>

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > Activism , Social Media , Strategy > Social Media and Spirituality: A Meditation on Change Social Media and Spirituality: A Meditation on Change by Roxanne Darling on November 13, 2009 I am speaking tomorrow on The Tools of Change Panel at Envision Hawaii 2009. Update: I forgot to mention this. That’s part of being a thought leader in this decade.) MORE >>

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > Gossip 2.0 , Social Media , Speaking , Video > Executive Overview of Social Media for the C’s Executive Overview of Social Media for the C’s by Roxanne Darling on December 4, 2009 I had an opportunity to speak with the “c&# s at a leading Hawaii company today. That’s shorthand for the CEO, the CFO, the CTO, the CLO, etc. Aloha! Hawai?i MORE >>

As always Josh provides real-life interesting examples from his own personal Groundswell. At 8,000 followers, Josh certainly has a poweful and potent following, not quite capable of causing an uprising perhaps, but certainly being very informative. In this case, Josh used his personal Twitter following to try to remember a name of movie that tanked due to negative Twitter coverage. The film was Bruno by the UK’s Sacha Baron Cohen. Personally, I haven’t seen the movie but in general the reviews in the UK had been pretty good. Rightly so in some aspects. Link here. MORE >>