Social Networking

Social Media Black-outs and brown-outs: Are we getting burnt out?

Something other than Autumn leaves is in the air. This week I’ve seen mentioned three high profile instances of individuals and institutions going on a social media blackout or brown-out and I admit my online activity has waned in the past few months — not because of choice but because I’ve got dozens of more [...]

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JDSupra and LinkedIn: Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate

I predict that just about EVERYONE on LinkedIn will have a good reason to add Legal Updates, the new application from JDSupra, to deliver legal industry content to their landing page. For lawyers, though, at least those who are posting to JDSupra.com, the new app is… “….like peanut butter and chocolate….” That’s what Ron Coleman, [...]

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Too Busy For Marketing? Tap Into Your Social Web Communities.

Who has time for business development when you’re really busy with client work? Since the beginning of 2010 I’ve been struggling to balance the time I devote to taking care of my clients-who deserve 100 percent of my attention-and the time I can devote to writing my blog, following up with the great people I’ve [...]

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What IS Twitter, really?

It’s time to reassess Twitter. Is it a conversation or just another channel in the communications tool box? What’s the value proposition today? Has it evolved for the better or what? I’m looking for your help in answering those questions. For those of us in the trenches; e.g. conveying to busy (or non-busy for that [...]

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Is Social Networking right for me?

I knew it had to happen. Up until this point I wholeheartedly believed that any business could benefit from greater exposure by participating on the social Web, but today I advised a company that the social web is not the right place for them to be investing their time, at least at this time. As [...]

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Blog Smarter. Write Media Rich Emails. Try Zemanta

I’ve mentioned Zemanta to my blog readers in an earlier post where I talked about online tools I can’t live without. Today I learned that in addition to making blog writing easier and richer, they’ve added integration into Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. If you haven’t yet looked into Zemanta, you might want to look now. [...]

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FACEBOOK: FOR BUSINESS

Instead of just cutting off workplace access to Facebook —the poster child for questionable business networking activity— I suggest you take a step back and get a better plan. Why? Let’s say you’re a lawyer, an accountant, or a sales person and someone in your organization decides that you are no longer allowed to be [...]

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LinkedIn is the Greatest Directory Ever

Image via CrunchBase No question –Linkedin is a valuable service that enables people to expand their business networks beyond physical limitations. However, it’s even more fascinating when you realize that it is one of the most powerful, mega directory databases at your disposal; even surpasses Google and Yahoo! in several ways. In a 2008 interview [...]

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Facebook Friday – It's Posterous

Two days ago when I posted about my top ten tools for organizing my online “social-life” I considered yoono about as close to finding the holy grail as possible – I was wrong. Today, I created a Posterous lifestream. I am www.virtualmarketingofficer.posterous.com. I’d been hearing about Posterous for a month now since Steve Rubel moved [...]

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Online Organization: My Top 10 (Free) Tools I Can't Live Without

If you’re like me, keeping up with my “social” life is getting out of control. My RSS feeds are unwieldy, the good stuff that I read, watch and listen to on the Web is getting buried deep in my bookmarks, my status updates are neglected, and I’ve got a five page spreadsheet of logins and passwords (it’s true!).

I know I’m not alone, because each week new services and tools launch promising to provide sanity to all the noise. To some extent I’ve been able to weed out those that are worthwhile and those that fall short. Experimenting takes time.

To save you time, I decided to share a few life savers that I’ve integrated into my online life. They are making my social life a bit more user friendly and hopefully they will help you too.

Get the list of ten tools that I use frequently or recommend. Best of all they’re FREE! Read more….

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