Considering I'm at Blogworld it's not surprising I've been thinking a lot about the ways we communicate in social media and how blogs fit into the equation. I contributed to my first blog in 2001 and started my own in 2003 back when there weren't all these other options, like
Tag: social
Chris Brogan delivered the closing keynote today at BlogWorld Expo. As usual it was inspiring, often unexpected and a bit profane. I'm posting my notes cleaned up a bit but more or less as I took them. ------------------------ This is no rah-rah speech. This is not going to be "hooray,
I'm about to embark on an uncharacteristic whirlwind of travel. I've been lucky enough to be invited to speak at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer in Chicago and the Social Media Business Forum in Durham, NC. All three are crammed into a span of nine
Sometimes people don't want to hear that social media takes time and effort. I made this short video after seeing the "social media guru" video on YouTube done with the same tool from Xtranormal. Please note: If I work with you and you see any resemblance to any conversation we've
Ten Tips for Establishing a Social Media Policy from David B Thomas on Vimeo. A preview of the panel discussion I will be participating in at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer in Chicago, Oct. 21-22, 2009. The panel is called Positioning Your Company to Reap the Benefits of Social Media.
I'll be speaking at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer, held in Chicago on Oct. 21 and 22. They've got a great lineup of speakers, and I hear O'Hare is lovely this time of year. The early bird rate expires Oct. 2, and you can get an additional discount by using
I wrote a lot of poetry in college. (Don't worry, that was pre-web so I have no links to subject you to). When I was doing it regularly, thoughts would come to me in poetic terms, or a snippet of conversation would spur an idea. The more I wrote, the
As you've probably heard, President Obama referred to rapper Kanye West as a "jackass" after West crashed the stage at the Video Music Awards and stole the mic from blah blah blah I don't care. Obama made the comment in a pre-interview conversation with CNBC's John Harwood, who understood the
This morning The Mrs and I took The Boy to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (as I was required to write it when I was a reporter) for the North Carolina Literary Festival. The two of them went to listen to children's book authors
My colleague Alison Bolen, editor of sascom magazine and the sascom voices blog, does a great job coaching our bloggers here at SAS. We had a meeting last week with a group of bloggers to help them deal with some of the issues involved in blogging regularly while at the