Monthly Archives: February 2009

When in Doubt, Ask Your Readers!

Tweet So between being sick, work piling up at school and the uncanny ability of the social media community to cover so many great topics, I’ve found it to be increasingly difficult to come up with creative content for this blog.  I could write a hundred posts about cliche social media discussions but it just…

Bias in the Age of Transparency

Tweet Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a close acquaintance of mine, who is also the Director of Emerging Technologies and Social Media for a big advertising firm.  I asked him to take a look at my blog and linkedin profile to see if he can give me any advice for improvement. …

Facebook: A Lesson in Damage Control

Tweet It’s that easy.  Tonight, Facebook proved that it knows how to handle the shockwaves of its mistakes. If you haven’t heard about the issue concerning the Facebook terms of service (TOS), they recently changed a section of their terms of service that dealt with their rights over user information. The community interpreted this section…

What Makes You Follow?

Tweet I asked this question on twitter in hopes that the response would show you, my readers, how you can use twitter to foster meaningful relationships. Everyone’s definition of a meaningful follower is going to differ based on their reasons for using twitter. I consider a meaningful follower to be someone who is active, responds…

Advice for PR and Marketing Grads

Tweet This is a collaboratively reworked version of Lauren Fernandez‘s post “Let’s Be Frank: Some Advice for PR Graduates” that I thought was SO great, I needed to make it available to my readers with a few additional insights of my own. I also spoke with Lauren after her post to find answers to some…