An Adweek article with the engage-y title, “Why The Average Starbucks Barista Gets More Training Than Ad Agency Staffers” caught my attention a few days ago. It had a cool infographic attached and referenced a new Arnold study on the lack of Ad Agency training, but it really wasn’t about why the average Starbucks Barista… Continue reading The Barista, The Ad Agencies and Social Business
Category: Social Media, Media 2.0
Mid-Term Elections 2010: Everyone is on Facebook So Stop Phoning
For those of us who have been involved with social media for a number of years, it seems lately like everything social that we have been talking about over the past several years has simply happened overnight. Not only is everyone’s mother on Facebook, everyone’s grandmother is on Facebook and companies large and small have… Continue reading Mid-Term Elections 2010: Everyone is on Facebook So Stop Phoning
Without Empowered Employees Your Social Media is Half Pregnant
And there is no such thing as being half pregnant. Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler of Forrester Research have a great article available at the Harvard Business Review Online on empowered employees which is adapted from their soon to be published book on the topic, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your… Continue reading Without Empowered Employees Your Social Media is Half Pregnant
Will New Twits Quit or Stay? Oprah, Influence & Value
“HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .†On April 17, 2009 Oprah Winfrey typed these words Twitter history. She now has 695,000 followers, follows 11 and has not Tweeted since April 24th. Oh my! 5 days? Whoops I just checked again before hitting publish and phew! she just… Continue reading Will New Twits Quit or Stay? Oprah, Influence & Value
Cool….one of my Facebook friends is now President-elect of the United States
Kelli asked whether or not President elect Barack Obama will keep his Facebook page or provide updates on Twitter. Farhad Manjoo at Slate asks what will become of candidate Barack Obama’s social networking sites now that he is President-elect Obama. I think it is not hyperbole to say that one change you can believe in… Continue reading Cool….one of my Facebook friends is now President-elect of the United States
Where will Dave Gray, Matt Homann, Dana Loesch and I Be This Weekend? InterPLAY St. Louis!
This weekend, September 18th and 19th, the St. Louis Bloggers’ Guild is partnering with the play:STL music festival to create InterPLAY, the first ever St. Louis interactive social media festival. Last year’s play:STL had 90 bands on 9 stages with thousands of attendees. This year is expected to be even bigger with 99 bands PLUS… Continue reading Where will Dave Gray, Matt Homann, Dana Loesch and I Be This Weekend? InterPLAY St. Louis!
Must Read: Groundswell (Must listen: Upstream.tv Forrester Marketing Conference Live)
I was planning on finishing Groundswell on the plane trip to the Forrester Marketing Conference in LA. As a matter of fact, if the truth be known, the 3 hour flight of uninterrupted reading time was one of the things I was looking forward to about the entire conference. That and the hotel room all… Continue reading Must Read: Groundswell (Must listen: Upstream.tv Forrester Marketing Conference Live)
Open Social Kumbaya: Pass the API, please
Well honestly, the name Open Social sounds a bit more 1962 than web2.0…I am thinking church social and maybe Aunt Bee serving up the Kool-Aid and announcing in simple to understand terms, “everyone that joins our social will share the same hymnal .” The announcement from MySpace for the Open Social went like this:” Our… Continue reading Open Social Kumbaya: Pass the API, please
The Nikon D80 Blogger Program and My Canon EOS 30D
Photo taken with Canon EOS 30D Picture This, I have had a long term relationship with Nikon. It seems now that it was one-sided. An elaborate invitation for a Nikon D80 did not arrive in my mailbox last April. I was not on the Nikon D80 Blogger Outreach dance card. A Nikon D80 is a… Continue reading The Nikon D80 Blogger Program and My Canon EOS 30D
Skype: The Single Bullet Theory
“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted …” OK, well it just sort of had that familiar sound to it…. Other more authoritative… Continue reading Skype: The Single Bullet Theory