Archive for October, 2008

How Do You Keep Your Conversations from Turning Into Broadcasts?

October 31st, 2008

I wrote a guest post for Chris Brogan which talks about the importance of keep your conversations from turning into broadcasts.  In the post I also discuss strategies you can use to make sure that the conversation keeps flowing.  Here is a snippet of the post:

“A conversation is a dialogue that occurs between two or more people, it involves the continuous flow of information from party A to party B and vice versa.  As a company executive, leader, blogger, etc. it is part of your responsibility to make sure that these conversations don’t turn into broadcasts.  What do I mean by broadcasts?”

If you want to read the rest of it, please check it out on Chris Brogan’s site.

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Best Iphone Halloween Costume!

October 31st, 2008

I had to share this, my girlfriend Lindsay made this costume for me and I thought it was absolutely amazing.

Maybe it’s just me but I could have never painted that.

And here is the lovely girl who made it :)

Have a happy Halloween everyone, be safe!  Anyone else going as a tech/social media/ web2.0 “thing?”  I know I can’t be the only dork out there, what are you for Halloween?

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It’s Not Always About What You Say but How You Say It

October 30th, 2008

Remember that wonderful post that Wired Magazine wrote, about how we should all quit blogging? Well, one of the issues that was not addressed was context.  If everyone is out there is talking about the same thing and you decide to join in, there’s no way that people are going to notice you right?  I [...]

Linkedin Launches Applications, Are You Using Them?

October 29th, 2008

If you haven’t already started marketing yourself on linkedin, you should!  Linkedin has just announced that they are going to be adding applications to their platform.  What does this mean for you?  Well it means that you now have an extra set of tools that you can use to market yourself.  The new applications let [...]

Questions You Should Ask While Creating a Social Media Strategy

October 28th, 2008

We all hear about social media strategies and how companies need to engage with customers and build relationships.  But it’s not THAT easy.  I mean you have to start from somewhere right?  You don’t just go create a twitter account or a facebook page and then just start posting, you need a foundation, you need [...]