You can look to CNN, USAToday, The New York Times, Techcrunch , Mashable, and MSNBC for examples of purveyors of quality content except that they can be just as guilty of the keyword laden salacious topic and title that is sure to drive readers, shares, comments and traffic. We’re content starved. The The emergence of tablets and mobile devices has only enhanced our desire to consume digital content. There’s a problem though. When content producers cannot meet the demands of a ravenous public, things can get ugly and the public walks-digitally speaking. Screw the readers. MORE >>

Going to a conference and meeting that person that you have had tens of twenty or hundreds of conversations with on Twitter or Facebook or blog comments. The beauty of social media isn’t in the online connections. It’s not about the numbers, never has been. OK,  maybe it is to marketers, but that’s because they operate from a different perspective. No the beauty of social media is in it’s potential. It’s potential to connect people from divergent backgrounds or in the same city or that have the same common interests. It’s mostly happening face to face. MORE >>

Do some of the following questions and comments sound familiar? Comment on YouTube. Comment on any blog anywhere. Upload music and comment on the music. How can you protect your children from social media? One might say, “Do we really need to&# ? and another would say “We have to&#. and still another will say, “We’re all overreacting&#. and you know what? All three opinions are in a certain way, correct. Right? Before we dig into the what to do, let’s review something real quick that may help you to understand the landscape a little bit. MORE >>

5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags. This past Tuesday on our weekly Hashtag socialmedia tweetchat , we were honored to have one of the classiest people I’ve gotten to know, host our chat, BL Ochman. To say that it was a successful tweetchat is an understatement, but what really pushed the chat over the top was the last question in which she asked for quick tactics to encourage corporate social media adoption. What’s great about this list?  Make sure you open them. Show the benefits of why you need to join in. MORE >>

It was there for people to read and comment on what I said. Originally I was going to write about how NFL players not playing this past Sunday were tweeting during the NFC championship game about  how Quarterback Jay Cutler seemed to NOT want to go back in the game because of a perceived injury to his knee, how he was not tough, how he was soft, how he lacked heart. Little did they know that he was actually hurt. They were reacting more to his body language, to what the camera showed us or by what was being said or not said during the telecast. Little FOREVER! It must be true. Right??? MORE >>