Social Media Tools

This is a very remedial blog post for novice facebook users who would like more dynamic interaction with their friends, networking buddies, and old high school friends. Many people are aware of how you hot link a person in a status update, but since I’ve had 3 people in the last week ask me how…

I know all the experts, gurus, and Social Media Ninja’s are going crazy over the headline of this post. I can hear them yelling at me and I’m sitting in a quit room writing this. Haven’t we yet learned that all the definitive statements about Social Media are wrong? The only reason people write rules…

Build your “Nation” one brick at a time. Take a page from my personal trainer when it comes to building community and Social Media. Sometimes there is an important element missing in many Social Media campaigns. The “Social.” Many people out there using twitter, facebook and the like are not building a nation, much less…

Okay so part two. While everyone else seemed thrilled to see HTML5 yesterday, I wasn’t like most waking up to a very different owl. I didn’t have the time, I had 20 things on my plate and I was, as usual, trying to figure out how to cram 30 hours of work into about 17…

Hootsuite say it ain’t so! I signed in this morning to get some work done and you’ve changed. And not for the better in my opinion. I don’t have the time this morning to explore your changes, but I do have to say as someone who uses you as a tool you have made yourself…

I experienced a social media triumph the other day. It just goes to show Social Media can really get the job done. Especially if a big business is doing its job and monitoring its online reputation. In that case you might even get positive results. I did last week! A couple of weeks ago I…

I’ve checked off one of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2010! Yes I put together a short list of things I wanted to get more involved in in 2010 both for myself and for my business. I have started playing around with two of the three. First off I’ve been playing around a little bit,…

My local twitter stream is turning into one big foursquare stream…. The other day a friend of mine said, now you have an iphone it’s your obligation to use every form of social media out there. I know she was totally kidding, but I do think that this foursquare is a bit over kill. I…

I’m on a cool tools kick. I’ve already shown you my experiment with Eyejot.com. Not time consuming, but painful….I hate seeing myself on video. I have ever since I was a kid and my dad filmed an Indian Princesses meeting. But that’s a whole other therapy session. Now here’s a little presentation tool called Prezi.…