Social Media enables you to broadcast your message to your Community and it also enables you to tag individual persons and chat with them. Social Media is an amazing environment; here you can practice the entire spectrum right from mass messaging to one-on-one messaging. If this is the case then what have we done so far with this amazing platform. Have we identified various clusters that can take place from our Fan / Business Page Communities? What we could do perhaps, is segregate our Community Members into various clusters. Inactive: Those that are not active. MORE >>

It is today that we must create the world of the future. Eleanor Roosevelt . Just One Crowd Sourced Question. Social media moves so quickly that no one person holds all the answers, knowledge or even the questions. In this series, Just one Crowd Sourced Question , I reach out to my social networks and ask folks to share just 1 tip on a social media issue. . The quote from Eleanor Roosevelt seemed like a prefect introduction. Mrs. Roosevelt reminds us that it is not the short-term but the long-term. This question was inspired by the recent Tweet-storms. Understand the brand beyond the message. MORE >>

This is an old post of mine, but still a favorite: In my first job out of grad school I was told, in a performance evaluation no less, to “do my hair and wear more lipstick.&#. When it comes to management, that definitely goes in the “don’t&# column. Over the years, that lesson and a number of others have made their way into my consciousness as a (previously unwritten) set of “rules&# I use to guide my behavior as a manager. People are at the heart of any change. To make change happen, you have to have people who can make change happen. That includes you. Empower them. MORE >>

Tweet Yesterday Facebook has launched Facebook Questions, which allows users and pages to post a Question to friends or a Facebook community. It seems like Facebook is constantly picking up on online trends and launching new products to match user needs. Latest with Places to match location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla. And now Facebook has launched Questions after Quora has been buzzing for a while. But the new feature will hardly threaten Quora’s user base. The most engaging status updates on a Facebook page are often the ones that call for a response by users. MORE >>

The past few weeks, I have been texting from my Android phone a lot more than usual, and I haven't even had to touch the device, thanks to a smart application that leverages the marriage between Google Chrome and my mobile OS to send messages directly from my browser to any phone number - making a text as simple as posting an instant message or a new entry in a chat window. Texty , available in private beta, brings SMS text messages to and from your Chrome browser in real-time, immediately as they hit your Android device. Then link it with your Google profile. Texty Chrome Google android MORE >>