Archive for June, 2010

Quit Facebook Day: Success or Failure?

In reaction to the changes to the Facebook privacy settings, several people organized a “Quit Facebook Day” in reaction. Over 36,000 people signed up and pledged to quit Facebook on May 31st, although the site doesn’t provide any details as to how many people actually carried through with their pledge. Since the beginning of the [...]

Chris Brogan Keynote at BMA Engage

Chris Brogan gave the morning keynote today at the BMA Engage event. Here are some of the highlights. Slides from his presentation. “I See You” – Getting back to being human and treating people like they matter. How do we build relationships that go beyond a single transaction. No letter that my mom ever sent [...]

Attensity Webinar with Ted Rubin

I first started following Ted Rubin a couple of months ago when he was still at e.l.f. cosmetics. Shortly after I started following him, he left e.l.f. and started working for OpenSky. I heard about the webinar that he did with Attensity, but I didn’t have time to catch it until tonight. You can still [...]

Personal Branding – Your Blog’s URL

Last week, I read a post by @JohnChow where he wrote about his Two Biggest Blogging Mistakes. The second mistake he mentions is using your name as your URL. I had decided a few months ago to secure the sueannereed.com name and set it up as my main URL. His post had me questioning that [...]

The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR

A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of the oil spill crisis, a new Twitter account @BPGlobalPR popped up. If you’re not reading the tweets closely, they almost sound like they might be coming from BP, but they aren’t. The tweets have a fantastic satirical edge, and the account now has over 100K followers. [...]