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Social Media Explorer, New Media Entrepreneur, Personal Branding Specialist, & IT ConsultantrnWith 20 years in Information Technology & Communications, I enjoy exploring and writing about social media & networking, personal branding, blogging, and new m
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How Do Companies Find Their Community Managers?
It’s a new field where there are no experts; no real training for classification or certification, and it’s difficult for folks participating in it to explain how it works. It’s not a lawless fi...
Happiness CCXLVIII
Building things....
Right Now
What are you doing right now? Are you moving forward, stagnating or slipping backward? Why wait to launch your biz, your idea, your brand? Why wait to spend time with your family or call your parents ...
Happiness CCXLIV
Building community as an extension to the social web....
What’s in your social web?
With all the talk of “social” in the web today, I started getting really tired of the references to social networking or social media and so on. After all, isn’t networking social by its very na...
Happiness CCXXXVIII
Exploring one’s network to find the opportunities that otherwise may have been missed....
Your Personal Network
We talk a lot about social networks and social networking these days, but it’s really nothing new. Only the tools are. People have been networking with peers for decades, much longer actually, but w...
Social Media Happy Hour - Northfield, MN
Yep, we’re starting to see more and more variations on social media meetups. This is a great thing for SMBers that can’t make it to a regular SMB because of work, distance, or other commit...
Social Media Breakfast - Twin Cities 6
Social Media in real life SMB-TC6 is coming together quickly and seems to have a theme: social media in real life! We’ve got many great things happening that really show how social media is chan...
Giving It Away
Part of what made the early and current social media crowd important to me, has been the willingness for folks to “give it away”. By that I mean all the ideas, tools, and techniques that are use...
Happiness CCXXXI
Social Media Breakfast events, discussions, & networking....
Happiness CCXXXi
Social Media Breakfast discussions....
Social Web: Blogging Constant Change
I’ve been reading a lot of bloggers and fellow social media travelers lately and they’ve all had a common thread. That commonality in opinion is that there is a shift in blogging vs. social networ...
As the IT world turns
The more time I spend working in the Information Technology field, the more I see opportunities. Usually, it’s simply a an old technology being consumed by a newer one – like traditional t...
Happiness CCXXIV
Planning social media get-togethers. It’s about meeting people, learning, and answering needs....
Social Media Breakfast - Twin Cities 5
Join us to network and chat about using social media and social networking tools in your business and careers. Our fifth gathering will be at the beautiful Minneapolis Central Library in the Doty Boar...
Reducing social networking increases productivity?
So I’ve been doing an experiment of sorts. Staying off most social networks, answering requests and status on only those I believe actually bring value. This was not totally planned, but is some...
Thinking about FADs
Do you ever get tired of the phrase "social media"? I don’t get tired of the concepts, methodology, and excitement that encompasses what so many of us are doing or trying to do. However,...
Connecting People
If you’ve been blogging or interacting on social media sites for some time, you’ll know the real reason many people are interesting in social networking. It’s the people of course! T...
Happiness CCXI
Seeing Twitter approach 99.9% uptime....
Enterprise workers don’t have the bandwidth for social media
In past posts on the topic, I’ve often wondered when the average worker would “get” blogging. I have to admit that I finally “got it” recently, but from a different persp...
50 Uses for Twitter
Awhile back, I’d started a list of "101 Uses for Twitter", but never seemed to get past 27 for some reason. Of course, it had been last autumn since I brainstormed on it. Whi...
Corporate Blogging – What’s The Plan?
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post on corporate blogging, and I thought it was high time to continue what I think may become a series. The needs of many companies are little differ...
Sample the Local Flavor
I’ve been doing a lot of local networking this past month & and have met so many talented people. With the exception of SOBCon08 at the beginning of the month, most of the events IR...
Your Image & Your Personal Brand
Chris Garrett had a great post about Gravatars last week that got me thinking. While we talk about branding, one of the easiest way to remind people of you is your image. For consumer prod...
Welcome to the club - now here’s the social media handshake.
You want in don’t you? To know the secrets of social media and how to use them to your advantage. If only someone would share the secret handshake to that awesome tree-house where al...
This Thing Called Twitter - Recap
This past Saturday (May 10th) I had a chance to facilitate an unconference session with Peter Fleck (@pfhyper on Twitter) at MinneBar on the University of Minnesota campus. While Peter and I had...
Do we realize how fortunate we are?
We live in age when anything is possible, at the touch of a button, or simply for the asking. The modern world is filled with tools and technologies that allow us to do amazing things. From communicat...