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Episode #356 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

If you could choose one media channel to create and own, in the year 2013, would it be a blog? Personally, I still think that blogging is a…

What’s Next? It’s You

If we stagnate, we die… so, what’s next?

This is the question that my good friend, Mark W. Schaefer asks in his blog post, Is there anything new in blogging? No. It will make great fodder for an upcoming episode of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twi…

The Power of Influence

Last year, a young lady named Molly Katchpole graduated from college and, like so many young Americans, could not find a job. Desperate to make her student loan payments, she took a job as a part-time nanny. While struggling to make ends meet, she received a letter from Bank of America stating that if she [...]

The Power of Influence is a post from: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting

The Return On Influence In A World Of Klout

Episode #308 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Mark W. Schaefer over at Grow Blog recently published his second book, Return On Influence – The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scori…

The Old (Evolving) Rules

Are rules set and permanent?

That’s obviously not the case – especially when it comes to social media. I’ve recently been watching some of the discourse online and how many people struggle, because they feel that no one is giving them any hard and tru…

Watching Me Blog

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…

10 New Books Worth Checking Out

There is a ton of great stuff that you should be reading.

The first quarter of this year is coming to an end, and there has been a plethora (yes, big word!) of great books for you to read and enjoy.

10 New Books Worth Checking Out (in alphabetical or…

The Tragedy Of Comments

Is the discourse dying?

Nick Denton – the founder of Gawker – generated a heap-load of comments the other day when he announced at the South by Southwest conference that the way blog comments are published has failed to boost the quality of public dis…

Klout and the Reality of Return on Influence

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Abbreviated transcript below. Please watch video for entire interview.) Jay: Welcome, everybody. It’s Jay Baer at Convince & Convert, joined today by a very special guest, my good friend Mark W. Schaefer. Mr. Schaefer, how are you, good sir? Mark: I could not be

The Truth About Marketing Leadership

Episode #293 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Mark W. Schaefer over at Grow Blog is about to publish his second book, Return On Influence – The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scor…

What Does Eight Years Of Blogging Get You?

Eight years ago on this day in 2003, I started Blogging.

Here’s some basic info about what has transpired in eight years here at the Six Pixels of Separation Blog: over 2700 Blog entries, over 20,000 comments and over 270 audio Podcasts. If you have r…

Failing Miserably

It’s easy to get down. It happens to the best of us. I’m not even a "best of us" and it happens to me all of the time.

Currently, I’m failing miserably at:

Reading a book every week. I’m doing my best to keep pace, but it’s late August a…