Episode #349 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
We are getting more regular when it comes to recording Media Hacks. In this semi-frequent podcast within this podcast we hold a roundtable …
Episode #342 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Does anyone remember Media Hacks? It was a semi-frequent podcast within this podcast that was a roundtable conversation with Chris Brogan, …
Read a good business book this year? Looking for the perfect holiday gift?
I’m usually one to shy away from "best of" and list-like posts, but ’tis the season (as they say). Beyond that, it was a great year for reading and there are some mar…
Episode #334 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Welcome to episode #334 of Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast. Please excuse the nepotism, but I treat Chris Brogan and Jul…
Now – more than ever – it’s possible to do business from anywhere at any time.
For over ten years, I’ve been doing my best to figure out how to be as upwardly mobile as possible. To ensure that I can work from anywhere and have access to everything th…
Episode #315 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.
Julien Smith (co-author of Trust Agents with Chris Brogan and the author of The Flinch) was downright mad at me. We have lunch on a frequen…
I must say the pre-keynote presentation was hilarious. Tom Webster (@webby2001) from Edison Research shared some “feedback” his company had received from the post-session surveys that were sent out for evaluation of the speakers. The comments were those that many bloggers experience on a daily basis: Poorly written, irrelevant, spam on your painstakingly written blog [...]
Trying to convince online influencers to tweet, blog, instagram, or pin nice things about your company is the post-modern version of celebrity endorsement, but with less impact. Public relations firms and/or in-house communication apparatchiks take the same concepts and mechanics of celebrity endorsement and bring them online, using Klout scores in lieu of celebrity Q scores, and blogger [...]
Why Online Influencer Outreach is Overrated and How to Fix It is a post from: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
Why didn’t they have commencement speeches like this when I was growing up?
In the past couple of years, it seems like more and more amazingly powerful commencement speeches have been making their way online. The Steve Jobs one still gets its fair sha…
Can you sum up your professional you in one or two words?
I was very touched watching the documentary, Being Elmo, on PBS’ Independent Lens. The movie is about Kevin Clash (the puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s Elmo). From a very young age, Clash demon…
I don’t mind that I’m becoming a dinosaur.
I’m not going to lie and say that I was shocked to read the DigiDay article, Agencies Ditch Blogs, that they published on Monday. "With the rise of social media, businesses are blogging less. That goes f…
Blogs are one of the most valuable marketing tools ever created.
I believe that. I don’t just say it. I mean it by walking the talk. I started blogging in September 2003, and since then I have written almost three thousand posts. I’m proud of this blo…
The best thing about social media marketing is that you don’t have to be the most popular, have the most followers, or be the most sophisticated, you just have to do a better job than all your direct competitors. You don’t have to be the fa…
That’s SMWF Europe over for another year; thanks to everyone who took time out of the ludicrously summery weather to come indoors and listen to a host of social media experts waxing lyrical about the developments in our industry. After Chris Brogan tore down our preconceptions and misapprehensions on the morning of day one, before [...]
"I keep having my ideas ripped off!"
I grew up being friends with a very successful individual. The problem was that this individual could have been much more successful (especially if you asked them). If you sat down with this individual an…
Don’t have time to relax?
Anxiety, stress, panic… we all have varying degrees of it from life, don’t we? I deal with my little devils on a constant basis. Recently, Chris Brogan blogged about the book Spontaneous Happiness by Dr. Andrew Weil. While …
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This Disease Called Blogging
Why do you blog? Why should you blog?
One of my most favorite people is Gini Dietrich from Arment Dietrich and the always fun to read blog, Spin Sucks. Today, she published a blog titled, Responding (Or Not) to Blog Comments, in which she says: "…
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