The list is entirely Facebook heavy. But these are some gems I used to prep for an interview after my own hiatus from social media. QR Code Resume Makes Your Embossed Paper Look Lame HOW TO: Improve Engagement on Your Brand’s Facebook Page [STATS] Facebook “Likes” More Profitable Than Tweets [STUDY] A Field Guide to [...]
Here is what my lived experience is of the social norms around networking and connections online: Share often Reference and give credit to others Participate in conversation Use consistent themes I started to realize that this was a way of thinking that was very isolating and individually centric. Strategies, if you will, that seem less [...]
So why, why, why do we keep hearing about social media, especially Twitter? Twitter only has 20 million users, which is nothing when compared to MySpace and Facebook, 60+ and 90+ million respectively. Yet we keep hearing about Twitter. Even though its growth has stopped skyrocketing, its usefulness has not. The exact reasons why Twitter [...]
It’s an utter mess. Despite my long time spent online, for all of the possible reasons, I’ve never managed to establish a consistent useful way to organize myself online. Now I don’t necessarily mean your online presence. I mean your online core, your mail room, and your secretary. I think being conscious of this is [...]
I just started a class on this topic (@bgiedu bgiedu.org). I’m in it because I know that I need the practice of posting regular entries. Additionally, I want strategy and purpose behind what I am doing. Finally, I want to see how the social web (social media) translates into real change offline. Can it? Social [...]
