Dealing with Detractors

The ideal time to start a corporate social media program is not as a reaction to negative feedback, and getting up close and personal with your critics is one of the hardest parts of maintaining a presence in social media. But...

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Social Media Predictions from a Jedi Master

Peter Kim posted today his collection of social media predictions from some of the big players in the industry. But I was completely shocked that he didn’t seek the guidance of the one and only Jedi master, Yoda himself....

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A Brief Epilogue

Ugliness exists all over the place. It happens around us every day, and irrationality abounds. Human nature, I suppose. On Twitter, though, and more largely throughout all of social media, it happens in the bubble for the whole...

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The Sanctity of Social Media?

Quite a firestorm (or teapot tempest) yesterday over this. I’m not going to bludgeon the issue, because There have been so many posts already…point, counterpoint…and I doubt I can add anything original to that...

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Seven things…

Ok, ok. You guys win! I was tagged by the lovely and talented Shannon Paul AND the brilliant Damien Basile to post about seven things that are interesting or different about you. I actually did a similar post to this on my...

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Value Through the Looking Glass

“Value” is a word that gets tossed about quite liberally in the business world, attached to anything that has any sort of perceived worth. Things are billed as “bringing value” or “adding...

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Great Expectations

Make no mistake, when you get involved in social media as a business, you are setting expectations. You are communicating through actions as well as words that you are prepared and willing to open up the lines of communication....

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