I had the opportunity to talk with Joe Schueller of P&G several times in the past weeks, and I found the experience extremely rewarding. Joe is an Innovation Manager in Procter & Gamble’s Global Business Services organization. We talked about the econolypse and its impact of businesses like P&G. See the original post on the […]
Archives for March 2009
Comparing TypePad and WordPress for blogging
Both services are versatile, but WP has pulled ahead People still ask us all the time which blogging platform they should use. (Micro-answer: It depends on what’s important to you.) A few weeks back the team here stared down the issue ourselves when we made the decision to switch Socialmedia.biz from TypePad to WordPress. Why […]
Twitter users: Help people find you
One of the shortcomings of Twitter is that it can be find to hard to find people — even people that you’re following — when you don’t have their Twitter ID right smack in front of your nose. Sure, you can go hunting and pecking in TweetDeck, or do a Google or Twitter people search, […]
Using Twitter at the Chicago Tribune
I‘ve been arguing for some time that journalists need to embrace the best elements of social media — going beyond the new media and multimedia elements of the craft developed over the past 15 years to develop a true conversation about the news with members of their communities. In the past few weeks I’ve begun […]
Unigo: Student-powered college advice
At South By Southwest Interactive in Austin Texas, earlier this month — inside the bloggers lounge — I ran into Julia Kaganskiy, the social media and community manager for Unigo.com. If you haven’t heard of Unigo, you will. It’s a crowdsourced college guide that offers honest appraisals of life at hundreds of U.S. colleges, including […]