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BARE FEET STUDIOS | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2008 How Ford Can Ramp Up It's Social Media Turnaround Story of 2009. 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 > Branding , Strategy > How Ford Can Ramp Up It’s Social Media Turnaround Story of 2009 How Ford Can Ramp Up It’s Social Media Turnaround Story of 2009 by Roxanne Darling on December 13, 2008 Can Ford be the Social Media Turnaround Story of 2009? This post on HIS PERSONAL BLOG is a blueprint for how Ford can revamp its advertising messages. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2008 24 Hour Podcast - Raising Funds for Disabled Veterans 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 , Aloha > 24 Hour Podcast – Raising Funds for Disabled Veterans 24 Hour Podcast – Raising Funds for Disabled Veterans by Roxanne Darling on December 20, 2008 Once again the amazing Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central is conducting a 24 Hour Podcast Marathon to raise donations for Disabled Veterans. Show is over; streaming window removed. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008 Free Advice: What WOMF Can Learn From WOMMA and Me 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 > HowTo , Social Media > Free Advice: What WOMF Can Learn From WOMMA Free Advice: What WOMF Can Learn From WOMMA by Roxanne Darling on December 29, 2008 This post is a promised follow-up to my recent post Why are Advertisers Embarrassed by Advertising? There was a forum/blog/WOMF posting titled “Is WOMF locally owned? Visit the WOMF parent site here. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009 SVAMA Presents: Online Video Show and Tell 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 > Speaking > SVAMA Presents: Online Video Show and Tell SVAMA Presents: Online Video Show and Tell by Roxanne Darling on January 19, 2009 Online video continues to be one of the most powerful, fastest growing, and least understood forms of communication. also want to thank Elyse Tager of Elymedia (and her blog here ) for inviting me to speak. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009 Yes We Can 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 , Aloha > Yes We Can Yes We Can by Roxanne Darling on January 20, 2009 We stop for a few moments today to acknowledge the long, disciplined journey taken by our new president, Barack Hussein Obama and to open our hearts and minds to the possibilities that exist when we are more curious than critical and when we stand on our own two feet without unnecessary fear. -
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BARE FEET STUDIOS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009 2009 IABC Hawaii Ilima Awards Call for Entries 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 > Aloha > 2009 IABC Hawaii Ilima Awards Call for Entries 2009 IABC Hawaii Ilima Awards Call for Entries by Roxanne Darling on January 30, 2009 My friends at IABC Hawaii want to recognize communication works or art and skill. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2009 Going From to Free to Fee, Consciously: Yes We Can? 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 > Money Matters , Strategy > Going From to Free to Fee, Consciously: Yes We Can? am blogging about this to put forth my wish that we as a consumerist collective continue to dismantle the chains of the old top-down commerce systems. My additional comments are going long so I am going to make a blog post Part 2. pay for my blog. Earn your place. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009 Going from Free to Fee Part 2 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 > Money Matters , Strategy > Going from Free to Fee Part 2 Going from Free to Fee Part 2 by Roxanne Darling on February 9, 2009 I started this discussion on this post and once I got into a lengthy reply to the comments, I realized there is more to be explored. You may want to read Part 1 and the associated comments here. What do you think? How is it unique? Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2009 Case Study: Twitter + Two Weeks = $7000 Raised It is a pretty straightforward formula: Someone gets an idea, creates a tag, and starts promoting it on Twitter and blogs. In less than 24 hours after the event, you can read the results on numerous blogs, including this one. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog. The target recipient was charity:water. million results. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2009 GoHawaii's A Thousand Reasons to Smile Makes Me Frown, Not Smile. 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 > HowTo , Social Media , Strategy > GoHawaii’s New Campaign Makes Me Frown, Not Smile GoHawaii’s New Campaign Makes Me Frown, Not Smile by Roxanne Darling on March 1, 2009 I recently read in the Pacific Business News about the HVCB (Hawaii Convention & Visitors Bureau) Hawaii: A Thousand Reasons to Smile Campaign. It is also available online for free. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009 Join Us for Launch of Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter 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 , Aloha , News , Social Media > Join Us for Launch of Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter Join Us for Launch of Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter by Roxanne Darling on March 3, 2009 Date: Friday, March 6 Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Place: ING Direct Cafe, 1958 Kalakaua Ave (former home of Local Motion store; parking in rear) Print a coupon for a free beverage. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009 Death, Social Media, Personal Branding 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 > Branding , News , Social Media > Death, Social Media, Personal Branding Death, Social Media, Personal Branding by Roxanne Darling on March 4, 2009 Two weeks ago my father died. Shane and I created a web site for my dad, a really simple WordPress blog site, because they are easy to get up and manage, and people can begin interacting with it instantly. As art. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009 Social Media Club Hawaii Launch | Bare Feet Blog 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 , Aloha , Social Media , Speaking > Social Media Club Hawaii Launch Social Media Club Hawaii Launch by Roxanne Darling on March 7, 2009 Wow. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Plus she invited several of her colleagues to attend.) See you Friday! -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 @Shane Talks Video with @andybumatai 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 , Speaking > @Shane Talks Video with @AndyBumatai @Shane Talks Video with @AndyBumatai by Roxanne Darling on March 17, 2009 Andy Bumatai is a well known comedian from here in Hawaii who has upgraded his personal brand to version 2.0. Bare Feet Studios partner Shane Robinson is a guest today. Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading! Hawai?i Our dog Lexi does! -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009 macheist: Lower Your Price, Use Your Network, Give to Charity. 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 , Branding , HowTo , Money Matters > MacHeist: Lower Your Price, Use Your Network, Give to Charity, Earn over $2M MacHeist: Lower Your Price, Use Your Network, Give to Charity, Earn over $2M by Roxanne Darling on April 6, 2009 And do it all in less than 2 months. Others can then embed that video on their blog pages and web sites. “Whaaat? -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009 Ed Morita's Twitter Case Study at Social Media Club Hawaii 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 > Branding , HowTo , Podcasts , Social Media , Video > Ed Morita’s Twitter Case Study at Social Media Club Hawaii Ed Morita’s Twitter Case Study at Social Media Club Hawaii by Roxanne Darling on April 8, 2009 Ed Morita is the pastry chef at Longhi’s , a popular restaurant in Honolulu. Nom nom! It truly is changing business daily. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009 I'll Be at Social Media Club Hawaii April 10; Will You? 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 , Aloha , News , Speaking > I’ll Be at Social Media Club Hawaii April 10; Will You? at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? I’ll Be at Social Media Club Hawaii April 10; Will You? by Roxanne Darling on April 12, 2009 I sure hope so! Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009 Tweet-Book with Toby Bloomberg Video Chapter 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 > HowTo , Social Media , Strategy > Tweet-Book with Toby Bloomberg Video Chapter Tweet-Book with Toby Bloomberg Video Chapter by Roxanne Darling on April 14, 2009 Does that title look like a foreign language? at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009 San Diego Tweetup IN the Water 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 > Aloha , News , Social Media > San Diego Tweetup IN the Water San Diego Tweetup IN the Water by Roxanne Darling on April 22, 2009 Here’s the press release from Patti Serano who is organizing this gathering. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Enjoy! -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009 Your Personal Brand is an Opportunity for Freedom 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 > Branding , News , Speaking > Your Personal Brand is an Opportunity for Freedom Your Personal Brand is an Opportunity for Freedom by Roxanne Darling on May 2, 2009 I am speaking on a Social Web Panel at the YWCA this week on Tuesday, May 5th, along with Laurel Boylen of chi.mp and Kelly Mitchell of Prudential. just did! This is answered in everything you do online. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, MAY 18, 2009 Twitter ROI - Is it Too Popular? 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 > Social Media , Strategy > Twitter ROI – Is it Too Popular? My colleague, Robyn Levin, stated it well on her blog: On a whole, I think this is a good thing, but here’s the problem: whenever technology becomes fashion, return-on-investment (ROI) tends to get lost in the excitement of the latest.com catwalk. Twitter ROI – Is it Too Popular? Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009 Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades A couple of years ago this really hit the fan with one of the first “official PayPerPost blogging services launched. love the convenience of logging in to my blog and finding links bout us – so I can go and thank them ! Web users have become increasingly more savvy to advertising, and banner ads rarely compensate for the costs much less the value on certain blogs. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Aloha, Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading! Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009 Rox is LIVE on the Andy Bumatai Show Today 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 > Social Media , Speaking , Video > Rox is LIVE on the Andy Bumatai Show Today Rox is LIVE on the Andy Bumatai Show Today by Shane Robinson on May 19, 2009 LIVE today, May 19, 2009, at 1pm Hawaii time. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009 Latest Online Video Data Shows Strong Growth in Internet TV | Bare. 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 > News , Strategy > Thinking About Having Your Own TV Show? at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog. He He. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009 Hawaii Officially Dips Toes in the Waters of Social Media 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 , Money Matters , News , Social Media , Strategy > Hawaii Officially Dips Toes in the Waters of Social Media Hawaii Officially Dips Toes in the Waters of Social Media by Roxanne Darling on June 7, 2009 Many thanks to the Pacific Business News and the Star Bulletin for covering the recent So Much More Hawaii fam tour with mainland bloggers. Such a deal! -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2009 Join us at Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter 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 , News , Social Media > Join the Email List at Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter Join the Email List at Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter by Roxanne Darling on June 9, 2009 The Social Media Club is an international organization with over 40 active chapters, whose goal is to develop and support best practices in the use of social media. Many thanks. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009 Hawaii Restaurant Association Links and Resources Find, Follow and Share Comments — BackType Unlike Google alerts, it tracks blog comments. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog. Upcoming & Recent Events Join Us on The Reef Recent Visitors to Our Site © 2009 Bare Feet Blog Powered by Thesis , Wordpress and Thesis ThemesFacebook Toolbox 101 with additional supporting links. -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 The Social Web: Learning to Use a New Tool 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 > HowTo , Productivity , Social Media > The Social Web: Learning to Use a New Tool The Social Web: Learning to Use a New Tool by Roxanne Darling on June 25, 2009 The social web is full of free information. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2009 knowhow Café: Where smart people go to get smarter about the. 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 > HowTo , News , Social Media > KnowHow Café: Where smart people go to get smarter about the social web KnowHow Café: Where smart people go to get smarter about the social web by Roxanne Darling on June 26, 2009 We have the antidote to yesterday’s post on how to learn what you don’t know! We are launching a new business that is all about training. Hawai?i -
BARE FEET STUDIOS | FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010 Beware of Social Media: It Does Create Change, Like It or Not 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 > Branding , Gossip 2.0 , Social Media > Beware of Social Media: It Does Create Change, Like It or Not Beware of Social Media: It Does Create Change, Like It or Not by Roxanne Darling on March 19, 2010 The social media flap du jour is about the Nestlé fan page on Facebook being slammed with comments about their use of unsustainable farming in Indonesia for palm oil. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010 Why I support The Career Summit Regardless of that, they are constantly learning, blogging, and sharing what they know to help you get your foot in the door, help you find a good job, or just get your name out there. If you come to the Anti-Social Media a lot (and you should), you probably noticed that I put a small banner ad for The Career Summit (afflitate Link, yo). Last April, I had the honor and priviledge of speaking at #recruitcamp , and with that chance I made great connections with some of the top minds in recruiting and human resources. These Want to know more why I think the career summit kicks ass? -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010 Live Blogging - The McDonald's of Blogging Tuesday of this week I had a realization as two live blog events were going on simultaneously. In one corner I was watching as all the major tech blogs covered the Apple “ Back to the Mac ” event which revealed a whole slew of Apple products to make fanboys like me wet themselves in glee. In another corner I was watching my friends at the Triangle AMA Analytics Camp live blog and tweet all of the information they were learning from that event. It’s why watching a live blog of an Apple event is palatable. Is live blogging useful? McDonald’s ok for a bit. -
MYRLAND MARKETING | MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009 HOW WILL THEY KNOW? I encourage my clients and Followers to occasionally include a link to a blog post or website in order to expand upon their Tweets in case there are Followers who are interested in learning more. I’ve been asked to explain a bit more from time to time, so I will do that via this blog, Myrland Marketing Minutes, and through my upcoming enewsletter, Myrland Marketing Memo, which is in the development stage. As you may know, Twitter allows users to share messages with their Followers, but with a limit of 140 characters, which doesn’t seem to be a deterrent to most. -
MYRLAND MARKETING | MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009 THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME by Nancy Myrland on August 31, 2009 This morning I read and commented on a blog post that my friend, Kevin O’Keefe, owner of LexBlog, wrote. It was about seizing the moment, and it got me thinking, so I left the following comment, and thought I would share it with you as well. Or will you feel great because you took advantage of the silence being created by that first group I just mentioned? -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 This is not social media news, Mashable. There’s now an. There’s now an article about a vacuum on the world’s most popular social media blog. This is not social media news, Mashable. guess it’s their way of saying social media sucks. This is why we can’t have nice websites and focused topics. Someone goes and ruins it with some poorly disguised ad copy about a vacuum. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010 The No-Strategy Strategy: A Strategy Guide for Bloggers My advice to anyone who is thinking about blogging is, START WRITING! Here’s a quick test to see if how much time you should be spending on strategy for you blog: You have as many people subscribed to your blog as you have contacts in your phone. Your blog is main source of income (10 minutes). He blogs at 1918.com on search social and web development. Tags: guest post social media strategy blogging Today’s post is a guest post by my friend and SEO maverick, Phil Buckley. Is it possible you’re spending too much time on strategy? think it is. 1 minute). -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2010 Social Media Coach Video: customer service and time Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Social Media Coach Video: customer service and time Posted June 5th, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , video Tags: rule of social media engagement , social media coach , Social media customer service , Taylor Ellwood View Comments Two more videos from the Connect 2010 presentation. The first one is on Social Media and Customer service and uses an example to show how social media is changing customer service. Imagine Your Reality. All Rights Reserved. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010 How you can measure social influence on Twitter Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes How you can measure social influence on Twitter Posted June 14th, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social influence , social media behavior Tags: social influence , Social Media , social media behavior , Taylor Ellwood , twitalyzer View Comments I’ve discussed social influence before, which is basically the influence a given person has on a social networking site. Whenever you do a new report, twitalyzer will show you if you have met your goals. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2010 Re-arranging your business Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Re-arranging your business Posted June 15th, 2010 by admin and filed in Business reputation , boundaries , business Tags: business analysis , business organization , reflection , Taylor Ellwood View Comments My ex-wife recently moved out and I’m in the process of re-arranging my much emptier home as a result. It’s actually quite a liberating experience and one of the things I’m working on is re-arranging my business space. What about you? -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 what does it mean to be social for businesses? Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes what does it mean to be social for businesses? Typically, what I see with a business is a tendency to advertise what they do, with little to no engagement offered in their social media interactions. there’s very little incentive, consequently, for fans, followers, or friends to actually visit the businesses website, or physical location, and a lot more incentive to actually ignore or write off the business’s social interactions as advertisement. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010 Tactical social media is never static Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Tactical social media is never static Posted June 17th, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , technology Tags: client needs , social media strategy , social media tactics , Taylor Ellwood View Comments As I’ve continued working with different clients, one of the realizations I’ve had is that there is no one, singular social media strategy or set of tactics that fits each and every business. What do you think? Never assume, smart advice. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010 Social networking can work if you participate Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Social networking can work if you participate Posted June 17th, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social influence , social media behavior Tags: networking , Social Media , social networking , Taylor Ellwood View Comments Yesterday, at the lunch 2.o meeting, I met one of the attendees, who recognized me because I post to the Linkedin forum he moderates. But the reality is that social networking is more than just a buzz phrase. What do you think? -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010 Social Media Coach Video: Internal social networks Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Social Media Coach Video: Internal social networks Posted June 18th, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , video Tags: internal social networks , social media coach , Taylor Ellwood , video blog View Comments In this video, I discuss internal social networks and how some businesses are using different social media tools for that purpose. If you enjoyed this video, please visit the video page. Imagine Your Reality. All Rights Reserved. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 Do what you tell your clients to do Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Do what you tell your clients to do Posted June 20th, 2010 by admin and filed in Business reputation , business , client , communication Tags: business , Business reputation , Taylor Ellwood View Comments You’ve probably heard the saying, “Do what I tell you to do, not what I do. While it is a bit of a cliche, there’s some truth to it as well. If you’ve found yourself saying that, don’t worry you’re not alone. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 Radio shows Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Radio shows Posted June 20th, 2010 by admin and filed in Radio Show , Social Media , social media behavior Tags: Beatles , Bill Stainton , connection , engagement , interaction , Social Media , social media coach radio , Taylor Ellwood View Comments This week I interviewed Bill Stainton about Professional Speaking, humor in speaking, and the Beatles and their approach to business. Imagine Your Reality. All Rights Reserved. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010 Social Media Coach Video: The value of social media policies Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Social Media Coach Video: The value of social media policies Posted June 21st, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social media behavior , video Tags: Social Media , social media policy , Taylor Ellwood View Comments This video entry discusses the value of social media policies and why your business needs one. Imagine Your Reality. All Rights Reserved. This site is powered by WordPress and uses the theme called Basic Simplicity by Michael Janzen -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010 Is your Facebook fan-page really yours? Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Is your Facebook fan-page really yours? Posted June 21st, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social media behavior Tags: fan pages , Social Media , social media behavior , Taylor Ellwood View Comments I’ve been watching a string of conversation unfold on one of my fan pages with some interest. So who does own it? The answer is that the fans own the fan page. What Nestle didn’t realize is that their fan page isn’t an advertising platform. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010 How to write a Linkedin invitation Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes How to write a Linkedin invitation Posted June 22nd, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social media behavior Tags: Linkedin , online invitations , Social Media , Social network , Taylor Ellwood View Comments The majority of the time that I get invitations from Linkedin, I usually get the generic invitation, “I’d like you to join my network on Linkedin. Sometimes I get responses, and most times I don’t. Whatever it was, write that down. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010 Presenting all the options Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes Presenting all the options Posted July 6th, 2010 by admin and filed in business Tags: customer experience , IKEA , Taylor Ellwood View Comments I visited an Ikea for the first time yesterday and was amazed at the level of efficiency that was set up to streamline the shopper’s experience. The question for readers of this blog is: How can we take Ikea’s approach and do the same with our business? You can’t go in there and just get one item. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010 social context determines how contact is perceived Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes social context determines how contact is perceived Posted October 2nd, 2010 by admin and filed in Social Media , social media behavior Tags: social context , social media behavior View Comments When we connect with people on a social network or by phone, it’s important consider the social context that we offer to justify the contact. Imagine Your Reality. All Rights Reserved. -
IMAGINE YOUR REALITY | MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010 What makes you stand out? Imagine Your Reality Business and Social Media Coach Blog Home About Taylor Ellwood Services Social Media and Business Classes What makes you stand out? https://nomorenakedphones.com/branding-for-your-phone/blog/ Branding on your phone will get their attention, but then you need to keep their attention as Taylor talks about here! Posted October 4th, 2010 by admin and filed in Business reputation , customer service Tags: Business reputation , how do I stand out , Taylor Ellwood View Comments What makes your business stand out? What makes you stand out? Imagine Your Reality. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 Elastic Thought: Elastic Marketing - Moving to a new model Probably irresponsible training for new recruits and definitely a good indication why bloggers still complain about being pitched by those not engaged in the conversations on their blogs. " (and hence the name of this blog--Elastic thought). blog that doesn't take itself too seriously and shows the company as "human" and engaging will go further than any story in a paper that has a declining subscription base. " (and hence the name of this blog--Elastic thought). Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008 Validating Social Media Measurement 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 « Online Marketing, YouTube and Twitter Have Arrived | Main | Youre Wasting Your Money » November 24, 2008 Validating Social Media Measurement I had a client that identified a $40,000 drop in converted leads and revenue drop every time a negative customer service blog post reached the first page of search results in either Google or Yahoo! -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008 You're Wasting Your Money Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: It's getting better though (the part about the CFO, not the part about the parents). Not ours. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008 PR 3.0 - Regaining Credibility Now, there is a whole new slew of "PR is Dying" blog posts running around, from Dennis Howlett's "PR is So Over," to Andrew Smith's justification of that sentiment. And there is a whole other blog post (or 10) that can be written about the vacuum of good story and good messages in pitches these days. That same PR firm blogged recently how important the writing test is. And there is a whole other blog post (or 10) that can be written about the vacuum of good story and good messages in pitches these days. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2008 How Do We Measure Trust and Authenticity? Scott Henderson commented in his blog on Chris Brogan and why this Kmart moment matters , that trust is the most important currency in any economy. I believe in personal reputation, but how many blog posts are out there on building your "personal brand?" Scott Henderson commented in his blog on Chris Brogan and why this Kmart moment matters , that trust is the most important currency in any economy. I believe in personal reputation, but how many blog posts are out there on building your "personal brand?" -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2008 Social Media's Historical Context first started thinking about social media in terms of history when I saw Arianna Huffington on The Daily Show talking about blogging with Jon Stewart. It was an appearance to promote her new book on blogging , and in one of her statements she said: "blogs are history's first draft." As consultants in the field, we always tell clients that blogging does not have to be perfect. So blogs, or social media as a whole is actually a more complete version of history. link] Other.: link] Other.: -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009 Technology in a Tightwad Economy (and how small agencies can stay. Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: So technology is on the minds of a lot of people. There are no slow-downs there. But they do. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009 Social Media is NOT Time Consuming Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: » February 04, 2009 Social Media is NOT Time Consuming But let's start with rocks. Big rocks. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2009 Why Can't Marketers Accept Authenticity? We cant continue to blog our way out of coming up with this model, and we have to respectfully disagree with Andy McAfee. We cant continue to blog our way out of coming up with this model, and we have to respectfully disagree with Andy McAfee. Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: » February 11, 2009 Why Cant Marketers Accept Authenticity? Weve been at this social media stuff for a little while now and weve seen some changes over the past couple of years. Our question is. So back to the question of why. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 In the Social Media World, When Do We Get to Sleep With Each Other? Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: That's my question for the week. Let's start at the beginning. Anyone? Really. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2009 There are Robots Amongst Us Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: Main | Can Social Media Solve the Global Economic Crisis? The two sides of the coin were: 1. It can't be faked. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009 Can Social Media Solve the Global Economic Crisis? The debate this morning on the blogs, the Diane Rehm show and in a lot of the 24 hour cable media is focused on how the executives lied, how the journalists were duped, and how do we bring accountability into this. The debate this morning on the blogs, the Diane Rehm show and in a lot of the 24 hour cable media is focused on how the executives lied, how the journalists were duped, and how do we bring accountability into this. Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: Probably not. movement. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009 Hijacking Brands I've blogged about this before, but wanted to revisit and talk about the enabler aspect of this and get your feedback. But here is the question, is a negative blog post, a Chevy Tahoe mashup, or some foul language on the Skittles Twitter feed considered a hijacked brand? I've blogged about this before, but wanted to revisit and talk about the enabler aspect of this and get your feedback. Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: " Heard it, before? -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009 What your clients are asking about social media Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: And they're good questions. Take this and share it. We do B2B work. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009 Twitter's Retention Rates are Misleading Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: " It's definitely made the rounds. It means nothing, the numbers are misleading. Here is why. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009 Marketers Need To Try A New Diet Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: A pill here, more sleep there, drink more water, and voila! 10 pounds lighter. Don't judge me. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009 Personal Branding Versus the Firm Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: Watch him or her work. And I don't mean the young AE's fresh out of J School. -
ELASTIC THOUGHT | TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Elastic Marketing - Its more than you think Agency of the Decade Cutting Out the Middle Man Intestine-Based Decision-Making Study: Online Reputation Affects Click-Through-Rate 2 Secrets of Agencies to Watch Out For Content recommendations from Evri Blogroll Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Social Media Explorer Alltop, all the top stories Jaffe Juice PR 2.0 Elastic Thought About My Other Accounts Facebook: 690281596 Other.: link] Other.: link] Other.: And this is the point where, after years and years in the industry, I'm still baffled by it. the assignment. -
PRIMARYENTREPRENEUR.COM | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010 Curation Curation Curation and The Next Social Media Business Model Home About Categories Blogs RSS Feed Primary Entrepreneur A Blog About New Ventures And The Entrepreneurs Who Start Them Curation Curation Curation and The Next Social Media Business Model Curation , the word of 2008-2009 within the eCommerce world, popularized first by the entertaining shopping site Woot , has now officially expanded to the social media space ( see examples ). The informational world—linked, tweeted, and blogged–has not been adequately curated and because social media grows exponentially daily, search will never work to solve this problem. link]. -
ACIDLABS | TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009 Who are the people in your neighborhood? In a Q&A blog post when I was asked where I’d donate $10 million, I said Sesame Workshop for the same reasons you stated above: [link] Reply Stephen Collins May 20, 2009 at 6:50 pm Great minds (of an approximate age) think alike? Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Who are the people in your neighborhood? May 19, 2009 in speaking I’m in Wellington, New Zealand to give a keynote at GOVIS 2009. Who was I to say no? “WTF? -
ACIDLABS | SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Boston coming soon Instead, as a blog partner for the conference, I have a discount code for 30% off – use it if you want to register. Related posts On the inside, the roses grow – value in corporate blogging (2) KM should just be (3) I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – not the U2 song (2) Workshops (0) Why are we even arguing about this? Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. -
ACIDLABS | THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 #2 in the B&T Marketing Blog rankings 2 in the B&T Marketing Blog rankings June 12, 2009 in posts Um… Wow… Thanks. I’m more than a little stunned at being ranked the #2 marketing blog in Australia by leading industry magazine B&T. 15) Keeping tabs (2) Is acidlabs a marketing blog? stumbled across your blog, and I’ve gotta say that you’ve a bit of an inspiration to the online community, let alone Australians! Get out there and blog. Collaboration. Community. To quote Sean Penn (who was riffing Sally Field in the first place): You tolerate me. Thanks! -
ACIDLABS | FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009 I Am A Geek 5) Connect.ed – The story of a girl (7) BarCamp Sydney #4 – Saturday, 15 November 2008 (0) ’tis the season (0) Tagged as: collaboration , geek , iamageek , society Cancel reply Leave a Comment Additional comments powered by BackType Previous post: #2 in the B&T Marketing Blog rankings Next post: Culture change for Government 2.0 Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Am A Geek June 13, 2009 in posts Naturellement! Collaboration. -
ACIDLABS | SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009 Culture change for Government 2.0 Make sure you watch the twitter stream for #publicsphere , the live blog and the video stream (all details at the link above). Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Culture change for Government 2.0 June 21, 2009 in speaking The text and slides below are for my session at Public Sphere #2 – Government 2.0: Policy and Practice which is being held at Parliament House tomorrow. Culture change for Government 2.0 UPDATE : Video now available. -
ACIDLABS | MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009 Recent commentary – Community strategy, brands, HR Simon Van Wyk of leading digital agency Hothouse interviewed me recently on the matter of community as brand strategy for their podcast and also did a follow up post on the Hothouse blog where he discusses those issues in more depth. Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Simon was very complimentary to me, quoting me several times amongst some luminaries including McLuhan. Enjoy! Related posts Why are we even arguing about this? 8) Social media? -
ACIDLABS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 links for 2009-10-16 links for 2009-10-16 October 16, 2009 in links Brainstorm » Blog Archive » Google Sidewiki: You can’t ignore your customers anymore! Home Work How acidlabs works Meet Workshops Speaking Past speaking For conference and meeting planners Press Clients Tumble Subscribe acidlabs Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Good piece from Jonathon Crossfield on the power in the hands of users with Google Sidewiki. He's absolutely right. tags: google conversation socialmedia ) 8 ways to optimize your feedly experience « Building Feedly Useful. in Australia? Government 2.0…it -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010 Social Media that Matters Writing a blog that’s mildly successful is strange. Still, life gets in the way of blogging here. Sometimes I know I am making a difference by making people smile about the horrible things people tweet. This website is a hobby, not a job, and sometimes my writing suffers because I’d rather play another hour of Starcraft II than try to figure out how to make fun of LinkedIn. That’s why when I was offered the opportunity to redesign and the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre website, I leaped at the chance. Social media marketing matters to places like NRACT. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010 Social Media Slavery? While I think the title is even more over the top than something I would write, the pressure is still there, especially for those of us who run successful blogs and websites or work in a social media function. My friend Stacey Alexander wrote a piece about Social Media Slavery. With a title like that, why wouldn’t anyone read that? That’s solid SEO gold. Stacey writes the idea much better than I do, but the gist of it is there is so much pressure to be online that it is like slavery because we are so tied to a computer or smartphone. Customers want answers. Bosses want results. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 You Deserve a Social Media Break. It’s not easy to keep up with the tweets, wrote blog posts, and respond to comments all the time. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets You Deserve a Social Media Break. The best of us are only human at heart, and taking those moments to rest between content publishing make all the difference between genius and insanity. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 Housekeeping: February 2010 If you didn’t know, blogging is hard. And most of us who blog have real jobs, families, and friends that need our attention. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Things are getting busy here, and there’s a lot of exciting news and happenings that I need to fill you all in on. I suspect as the revolution grows, these posts will happen more frequently. The Anti-Social Media will be presenting at Ignite Raleigh on March 3rd. I promise I will make your votes worth it. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 You Can Sort Through the Social Media Content Flood. Part of being an Anti-Social Media Expert is reading a lot of blog posts, tweets, feeds. plow through a lot of blog feeds on Google Reader. And when you write a social media blog, and have a life off of the internet (WHO KNEW?!), The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets You Can Sort Through the Social Media Content Flood. So, how do I handle it? -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010 The Social Media Uniform When she’s not being snarky for this blog, Allison is defying online marketer and social media guru stereotypes. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets The Social Media Uniform Today’s guest post comes from Allison Najman (@ mbagrrl ) You can visit her site to stalk her learn more about her. This uniform transforms creative, interesting people into lemmings. iPhone. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 Personal Branding and Girl Scouts Keep in mind, a truly malicious person can go ahead and create a fake profile or blog under your name and start publishing crap in mere seconds. Once that happens, then you’ll just have to tell everyone it was the OTHER Jane Smith that wrote that blog post. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. “Don’t tell them your phone number. If they say, like, ‘It’s safe, I’m OK, I’m a doctor’ or something, they might be lying. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, JULY 5, 2010 Greed, Sharing, and Keeping Information It should come as no surprise that I am terrible at sharing what blog posts and articles I read, especially the ones I find most useful. Do you keep the best articles and blog posts to yourself? The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Greed, Sharing, and Keeping Information I am terrible at sharing. Ask anyone who knew me as a child. I want that information. Am I wrong? -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010 I Don't Care When You Complain Online (But You Better Listen to Me) If I did, this blog would be “The Asocial Media, and really, I’m not that apathetic. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets I Don’t Care When You Complain Online (But You Better Listen to Me) We love to complain online and on social networks. It’s being slowly built into our nature. Have a problem with your sink? Get on Facebook and whine about it. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, JULY 12, 2010 The Like Button or The "Like" Button? Have you ever read Facebook blog ? If If you’re deranged and desperate, it seems like all the solutions are within that blog. Facebook’s blog mostly deals with the features being implemented on Facebook, such as them getting rid of gifts, the ability to like comments, or how they fail miserably at protecting you. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. If you haven’t read it before, it’s like reading a cult manual. Trademarks symbols are understandable. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010 Where is your Emotion? Instead, I’m here on this blog thinking through social media issues endlessly. Naturally, I have theory on why the most popular and seemingly best blogs got where they are. Your blog could be about paper airplanes, and you can fuse some feeling in there. If you’re blog is personal, you should already be doing this, and if you aren’t I’m worried about you. Your blog shouldn’t start being some type of counseling session where you work out your emotions. Get your blog together, and start showing your readers you’re a person. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010 What if You Couldn't Unfollow? While I have a perfectly long and blog-worthy answer to that, it got me thinking in a different way. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets What if You Couldn’t Unfollow? What if you couldn’t remove someone as a friend online? Once you made that decision to follow someone, you couldn’t give them up and had to stick with them no matter how terrible they were. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010 Changes Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Changes I’ve done a lot of thinking this weekend about how I blog, and I came to a realization: I can’t keep writing posts the way I do five days a week. I already have a job and other responsibilities, and until this blog starts printing money for me, I can’t give it all the attention I’ve been giving it. It’s my blog, so changing this schedule is fair game at any point. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. It kills me. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2010 Contest: Free Social Media Consulting I’m offering two free hours of social media consulting to five lucky people who comment on this blog about why they need help with their social media. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets Contest: Free Social Media Consulting There’s a lot of crappy social media in the world. That’s right. What other people charge bundles for you can get for free. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010 What to Blog When You're Out of Ideas Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets What to Blog When You’re Out of Ideas I’m having a terrible time writing a post for today. What kinds of things do you blog about when you’re brain runs dry? Do you wait to blog until you have a good idea, or do you churn something out? meta 2 months ago 0 notes Chibi Blogging Out of Ideas Tweet Copyright Jay Dolan 2010 & The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2010 I'm Caving in and Being a Hypocrite I cannot express how frustrated I am with tumblr beyond saying I plan to move this blog off of it soon, and I am sorry I lost those comments. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets I’m Caving in and Being a Hypocrite Editor’s Note: When I was publishing the post for tomorrow, tumblr somehow managed to overwrite today’s post. m greedy and I want more traffic. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2010 Want to be a Great Blogger? Start Reading. For every great blog post I read, I see at least ten terrible ones that could have been awesome. And because blogging is a form of writing, you need to become a master at writing. They go Fahrenheit 451 with that desire and fuel it with books, articles, blog posts, and whatever else they can get their greedy hands on. Find the articles, books, and blog posts you love and look at them as a writer. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Start Reading. What makes them work? -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 We All Hate Facebook Places Already Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets We All Hate Facebook Places Already I don’t think I ran across a single blog yesterday that thought Facebook places was a great idea. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. We all know it was derived from Foursquare , Gowalla and their cousins. People detest “friends being able to check you into places , and privacy groups are waging another war with Facebook. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010 Announcement: We're Moving! (Kind Of) Tumblr is the blogging software that runs The Anti-Social Media. It’s an easy way to blog quickly and without having to worry about setting up your server. Blogging for myself isn’t any fun. So, I’ll be transferring the blog to WordPress. meta 1 month ago 2 notes tumblr wordpress blogging Tweet Notes: grantmartin liked this yvynyl liked this theantisocialmedia posted this Copyright Jay Dolan 2010 & The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. tumblr is pretty. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010 What the Hell is Your Favorite Social Network My other favorites, in no particular order, are tumblr ( even though I am leaving it as a blog platform ), flickr (because a picture is worth a thousand words), and LinkedIn (even though I come across as completely unprofessional here). The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets What the Hell is Your Favorite Social Network I want to know what your favorite social network is. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010 Computers I’m having such crazy issues right now I’m having to blog from my iPhone, which is terrible because I can’t edit worth a damn on this thing. Blogging and creating content needs to be easier. Why does the Internet make it so hard just to blog? If you can tell me, or make a better blogging platform, there’s a million dollars out there for you to make. meta 1 month ago 0 notes blogging computers Tweet Copyright Jay Dolan 2010 & The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. It’s 2010! -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010 I made this video about my Wordpress Woes last night, but. I DREAMT ABOUT BLOGGING SOFTWARE. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets I made this video about my Wordpress Woes last night, but YouTube decided to keep meddling with how the audio was synced with the video. If it was really bad, i would have kept it as is for comedy’s sake, but the video was maybe a half-second off, so it was just annoying. -
THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 How do You Help Your Readers? am a firm believer that people will read your blog or visit your website for one of two reasons: They want to learn. The Anti-Social Media RSS Archive Mobile Breaking connections between friends since 2010. The Anti-Social Media is run by Jay Dolan. Pages About Speaking Contact Blogroll Anti-Social Media Rules Anti-Social Media Twitter Facebook YouTube Latest Tweets How do You Help Your Readers? They want to be entertained. If you can do one of these well, you will build an audience. If you can do both well, you can build an empire. Can you make them laugh or smile? Can you do both? | |