I've had a few conversations lately with friends and business acquaintances who expressed an interest in a job involving social media. I found myself giving all of them the same basic advice, so here it is. None of it is new or novel, and I'm not entirely sure I haven't
Seems like there are a lot of great folks writing social media books right now. Last week I learned that Amber Naslund and Jay Baer are writing a book aimed at small and medium-sized business, organizations and non-profits. I just heard on the Six Pixels of Separation podcast this morning
Here's a video interview with me, conducted by Deb Orton, where we talk about how we got social media off the ground at SAS, how to plan for some of the basic organizational issues and a bit about social media policies. It's an action-packed and fun-filled 14 minutes. Well, informative
“The Nuts & Bolts of Social Media,” is the title of the series of video interview segments we're producing, beginning with the Chris Brogan interviews, and continuing on with some of our internal social media champions, and when possible, with customers. Look for future posts tagged "The Nuts and Bolts
Jeremiah Owyang led off the second day of the Ragan Cisco Social Media Summit with a talk entitled What’s Next? Social Media Trends for Corporations. I’ve seen Jeremiah speak before and I’m always impressed with the clarity of his vision. Here are my notes from his talk this morning. Jeremiah
Len Devanna, Director of Digital Strategy at EMC, gave a presentation at the Ragan Cisco Social Media Summit that hit a lot of responsive chords with me. It sounds like Len and I have faced a lot of the same challenges and come to many of the same conclusions. Considering
Michael Brito from Edelman Digital talked this morning at the Ragan Cisco Social Media Summit on the topic of “Brands Breaking Boundaries.” Michael came to Edelman from Intel and understands the issues that corporate social media communicators face. Michael, by the way, is a great guy and one of the
Jeanette Gibson, global director of social media at Cisco, kicked off the Ragan Cisco Social Media Summit with an outstanding and inspiring review of how Cisco is using social media tools including blogs, Twitter and employee-generated video. These are my more-or-less tidied up notes from her presentation. Cisco has 22
This week I'll be heading to Cisco in San Jose for the Social Media Summit, put on by Ragan Communications. I'm excited to be attending and even more so to be presenting. I attended a Ragan event at SAS about two years ago, before I took on the Social Media
A few weeks ago I posted 'Chris Brogan Talks About the Value and Measurement of Social Media', the fifth (of six) Chris Brogan videos taped when Chris was at our headquarters in Cary, NC. In this video, the sixth and final segment in the series, SAS' Deb Orton interviews Chris
