Only 50% of Americans get their news from a national or local newspaper states a 2010 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. While 61% of respondents state that they get all or at least some of their news from the Internet. “Well… duh… where have THEY been?!” Let’s face it, most of [...]
At Internet Summit 2010 I ran into my good friend Alan Fitzpatrick and his business partner, Addy Kapur. They were demonstrating their new video messaging service called MailVU and being that I’m addicted to trying out any new technology, I decided to give the service a quick run-through. Wow… How simple. Just visit, click, record [...]
Have you ever set a goal or developed a challenge for yourself that you thought: “I’m freakin’ crazy to try something like this!” Well, I just created a challenge for myself where I’m thinking that exact phrase. See, I’m taking on Chris Brogan… well, actually just a request he made on one of his blog [...]
I love keeping my eye on my Twitter stream. It always amazes me to see the comments, discussions, quotes, and stories that quickly scroll down my Tweetdeck screen. This morning, one in particular grabbed my attention. It was talking about how the Medical University of South Carolina had created a “social media newsroom” to share [...]
So I’ve been thinking about what the heck I want to do with this blog. Really I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to do with this blog and I have found myself questioning why I started it in the first place? Was it for me to talk about topics that interested me? Was it [...]
Now I know I might take some heat for this from my fellow marketers or zealous fans of social media, but I’m sorry, Social Media is NOT the silver bullet for marketing my business. It’s not even a bronze bullet. Frankly, it’s maybe a nickel-plated bullet in a clip full of other bullets. Why? Because [...]
I recently came across a study on Twitter that was conducted by Pear Analytics. It was interesting in that they wanted to find out how we all REALLY use Twitter. Their hypothesis or assumption was that Twitter was mainly used for self-promotion (those of us that want to push our wares out to the Twitterverse [...]
This sounds like it would be a relatively easy task. I mean, how many things can you actually write about? In truth, when we decide to start blogging we oftentimes come to find that this is one of the most difficult tasks for us to accomplish. Why? Because we actually know a lot! We just [...]
