social media
Be More “Conversational”
When I first joined Twitter, I spent a lot of time on Twitter chats. In addition to meeting a lot of interesting people and engaging in some great conversations, it also really balanced my Twitter feed. Over the course of a week, I had a fairly equal amount of tweets that were sharing links and [...]
Social Media Birds of a Feather Session Recap #13ntc
There weren’t a lot of tweets coming out of the Social Media Birds of a Feather Session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. One reason is because two of the leaders of the session – me & Chris Tuttle – were also two of the most prolific tweeters the past couple of days. Another reason is [...]
Top 10 Tidbits from The Thank You Economy
Over the weekend I finished The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk. It’s not really a groundbreaking book — at least not in the same way Crush It was for Gary, and for those who are already waist deep in the social media world, he doesn’t say anything that most of us don’t practice every [...]
I Love When Companies Listen
Tech companies have to be innovative. We want leaders at tech companies to come up with the next new idea and to push things forward. However, when existing companies get a little too innovative, they run the risk of upsetting existing users. It’s super important for companies to listen to their existing users and potentially [...]
Blogchat Transcripts for October
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How to Survive Tweetchats / Twitter Chats
Lots of people lately have posted really great posts on how they manage and participate in Twitter chats. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I thought I would share links to some of the ones I liked. How I Make the Most of Online Chats by CASUDI It’s the conversation and information exchange that makes the [...]
Journchat Transcripts – September
Given that most the hashtag tools don’t archive things for long, this is an archive of the transcripts for September. September 6 – No #journchat due to Labor Day Journchat Transcript 091310 Journchat Transcript 092010 Journchat Transcript 092710 (Condensed to 1 hour — missing first 9 minutes)
Blogchat Transcripts – September
I have not had the time recently to do good recaps for September. But, I wanted to provide one location for the PDF versions of the transcript since most the sites that provide links to the tweets only keep a couple of weeks worth of information. Blogchat Transcript 090510 Blogchat Transcript 091210 Blogchat Transcript 091910 [...]
Blogchat Recap and Transcript 09/05/10 – Musical Artists Using Social Media
Tonight’s #blogchat was co-hosted by Shani Sammons (@shanisammons) and focused on how musical artists are using social media to connect with fans. Here’s a transcript (PDF) of the evening’s chat. The first-time #blogchatters: lrbray amydobrzynski ThePRLady imBreeGlenn Top tweets: abbisiler: Making themselves available is the first step 2 finding their fans online. Have strong website w/ msg [...]
#blogchat – Recap and Transcript – 08/29/10 – Open Mic
Last night’s #blogchat was all about Open Mic and there were many discussions happening at the same time. I mostly followed my own advice when it comes to #blogchat and got involved in a couple of side discussions content vs. design, how blogging may or may not change journalism and how long I’ve been blogging. [...]