March 2009
41 posts
“Companies are increasingly looking to social networks for a 24/7 read on...”
– Stephen Baker, Business Week: Following the Luxury Chocolate Lover
“Gartner analysts predict that by 2011, enterprise microblogging will be a...”
– Gartner Highlights Four Ways in Which Enterprises Are Using Twitter
“I think of social media as the evolution of the Web from an information/content...”
– Devashish Saxena, quoted by Jennifer Leggio, ZDNet: Fortune 500 series: Texas Instruments uses social media to connect 10K+ engineers
Connie Reece, Every Dot Connects: Twitter and the... →
How do you determine your “friending” policy on social networks, especially Twitter?
Twitter Poll
“Are we inadvertently creating a Customer Chasm, where those who are socially...”
– Jason Baer, Marketing Profs Daily Fix: The Customer Chasm. Are You Creating a Social Media Divide?
The Four Faces of Social Media →
I’m a purist, just in case you haven’t figured that out.
“This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual...”
– Clive Thompson, NY Times: I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You
Connie Reece Dubbed the “Mother Nature of Twitter” →
Ah, satire. Britist accent. Bathroom reading. I suppose I’ve “arrived” now.
“We’re forging new and relevant links online. It’s the metamorphosis from online...”
– Brian Solis, PR 2.0: The Human Network: The Social Economy is Influenced by How We Communicate Online & Offline
“Learning by doing may become the new ROI.”
– David Armano, Logic + Emotion: Brands Will Learn By Doing. Get Over It.
“We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken...”
– Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
“Over the last decade, Social Media has slowly evolved not only as a new content...”
– Brian Solis, PR 2.0
“Socializing online is simply not going away in any part of the world.”
– Everybody Loves Social Networking, Except Some Advertisers
Standing on the Bedrock (Lent 2008)
Tonight it was my mother’s prayer that sustained me. I had reached a breaking point a few hours earlier. You know, the point where you’re so sick and tired of being sick and tired that you just want to give up, but since you can’t do that (or at least I can’t), you break down instead.
Okay, maybe you have no idea what I’m talking about. Others, I’m sure, have been there more than once. I was...
“According to a new Forrester Research survey of global interactive marketers in...”
– ReadWriteWeb: Despite Recession, More Than 50% of Marketers Increase Spending on Social Media
“What we now call “social media” - this leading edge congolomeration of stuff...”
– Steve Woodruff, The Disappearance of “Social Media”
“Twitter is limited to messaging, keeping people on the site an average of just...”
– SF Gate: Facebook moving into Twitter territory
Avoid getting red-faced on Facebook →
I contributed to this feature article about social networking etiquette in the Austin American-Statesman.
“While I’ll admit that, to the casual observer, Twitter and Second Life...”
– Greg Verdino: Marketing, Media & Trends: Twitter is this year’s Second Life
“People who are truly influential become conduits for human based filtering and...”
– Micah Baldwin, writing for Mashable: HOW TO: Measure Online Influence
“With the popularity and pervasiveness of microblogging (a.k.a. micromedia) and...”
– Brian Solis in Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere?
“A report from IDC, released in December, found social network ads are less...”
– 48% of Millennials Enlist on Brand/Fan Pages; Here’s Why - MarketingVOX
“Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or...”
– PR 2.0: Social Networks Now More Popular than Email; Facebook Surpasses MySpace
“New stats from Nielsen Online show that by the end of 2008, social networking...”
– Social Networking More Popular Than Email
25 Ways to cope with !*%# media people →
“When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set...”
– Isaiah 43:2
“It is what it is.”
– my friend Eileen, at the oncologist’s office for diagnosis
Struggling to Receive (Lent 2008)
Recently I have been the recipient of charity, and I must confess that it is a struggle for me to accept it graciously. In this case the charity is not financial, although I have been in that difficult circumstance as well and found it equally uncomfortable.
We sometimes forget that the word charity derives from ancient words, in more than one language, that meanlove. Here is what love looks...
Pledge to End Hunger
Sign the pledge, then use the Share tool to tell at least 3 or 4 friends about the Pledge to End Hunger. When 1,000 people do this, Tyson Foods will send a truck to Austin with 140,000 meals for hungry children.
We’re 3/4 of the way there … so please do it today.
Did you know? One out of six children in America is unsure where there next meal is coming from.
Social Media Gives Patients a Voice in Health Care →
A few words on networking
Networking is a mindset, not an activity. It’s about building relationships, not contacts or sales leads.
The successful networker—whether online or off, personal or professional—does not have a self-centered attitude that silently proclaims, “Here I am!” but an open-hearted, welcoming attitude that fairly shouts, “There you are!”
“What Accessibility Means to Me,” a superlative... →
Glenda Watson Hyatt, known as the Left Thumb Blogger, has cerebral palsy. She blogs about disability issues and is on Twitter as @GlendaWH.
“As it becomes commonplace for people to acquire tens of thousands of followers,...”
– Twipocalypse Now: Warnings of a Twitter Bubble (Twitip.com)
“The future of marketing is social, and those who choose to ignore it are going...”
– Aaron Strout in DMNews What’s the future for social network ads?
Special Feature: Connie Reece →
my profile as a “Social Media Maven” in the March 2009 issue of Austin Woman magazine