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  • 27 Year Internet Anniversary

    27 Year Internet Anniversary

    What were you doing on the Internet 27 years ago, circa 1993/1994?  At that time, there were only between 200 and 2000 websites, depending on how you counted.   Most people had no idea what the web was all about, and email was still a big leap for many organizations. 27 [More]

  • Social Media Slimming Down: Costly or Gone

    Social Media Slimming Down: Costly or Gone

    There is no question that LinkedIn is one of the most powerful networking platforms around. It connects, credentializes, and recruits. It provides a glimpse into the professional lives of those we know, and those we want to know. But it has been providing less, and less, and less. Consider the [More]

  • An Optimal Twitter Schedule

    An Optimal Twitter Schedule

    After participating in a recent panel discussion, I was approached by David Shlagbaum, a senior partner in a downtown law firm.  He reminded me of a lunch we shared, where he had asked me how often he should tweet.  I responded "David, do you see that bus outside?"  He did.  [More]

  • Seven Reasons to Skip Social Media

    Seven Reasons to Skip Social Media

    If you read anything, anywhere about marketing, sales, customer service, recruiting, IT, or executive leadership, you can't help but notice that Social Media seems to have become mandatory – full stop. But are there circumstances where it makes sense NOT to use Social Media?  Where turning down the volume on [More]

  • Testing the Social Conversation

    Testing the Social Conversation

    Have you ever put your social influence to the test?  Or said another way, do others find you half as interesting as you do yourself?  If you're not sure, here are seven ideas that might spur some different thinking. 17 Ways to Great Social Engagement: Not sure why your blog [More]

  • Twitter Strategy, Take Three

    Twitter Strategy, Take Three

    "Blogs are like articles that people can comment on.  YouTube is like TV, but with voting."  But what about Twitter? Many are not yet convinced that Twitter makes sense to them. (Or that Twitter makes sense at all.) What are the arguments for adopting Twitter - at least at some [More]

  • Built for it

    Built for it

    Both are athletic.  But one is built for football, and the other is built for ballet. Just the thought of one doing the other's job is ridiculous: they would either be crushed, or laughed off the stage.  Both know it, and they figured out quite early in their lives where [More]

  • Viewpoint: The End of Social Media

    Viewpoint: The End of Social Media

    Here's a bold prediction: The End of Social Media. Yes, despite the success of the Twitter IPO, and before that, Facebook's public offering, and after that, the fight over TikTok, the initial promise of social media is quickly moving to its end. Consider the evidence: Over a billion users on [More]

  • Lipstick on a Pig: Is this the new Social Media?

    Lipstick on a Pig: Is this the new Social Media?

    You may be one of those unlucky individuals who cannot "do" any social media at work. Not because you don't know how, or don't want to, but because your workplace policy prevents you from doing so. Or the regulatory compliance environment means that social media is off-limits. Or you're just [More]

  • Selling Products using Social Media

    Selling Products using Social Media

    Forget likes, shares, retweets, and comments: how can you use Social Media to actually sell products?  (Here's a post on selling services.) To do so effectively means understanding two key concepts: the funnel, and conversion.  The funnel refers to the process that prospects go through before they actually put down [More]

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