Yesterday was my first WordCamp, held all day at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. I’ve been caught up by WordPress fever since early this year when I switched from TypePad. Some 730 people turned out at WordCamp, about double last year’s number. Here’s a Flickr set of WordCamp photos I took. The […]
Archives for May 2009
Just out: The book on social media
Hello, Socialmedia.biz readers! I apologize for my silence, but I have been finalizing my book on social media and Web 2.0 optimization, which is now in print. I am excited to have it complete so I can actually engage in social media again! Over the next few months, I will post excerpts from the book, […]
BlogWell: How big brands use social media
Social media conferences seem to be sprouting up everywhere these days, but one conference consistently does an oustanding job of bringing in high-level people to explain how “big brands” — large corporations — are using social media in the enterprise: BlogWell. I attended the inaugural BlogWell, a joint venture of GasPedal and the Blog Council, […]
Social media success doesn’t start with ROI
The advertising and public relations industries have to prove their worth. They have to show that what you bought delivered a return on investment (ROI). And the demand to create more accountability for social media increases every single day. Just last month, accountability was the basis for most of the discussion at ad:tech in San […]
Photos of NetSquared
Here are 16 photos on Flickr I took at the NetSquared Global Conference held Tuesday and Wednesday at Cisco headquarters in San Jose. Pictured above is Chris Messina of OpenID, Citizen Agency and Flock fame; he gave a stirring presentation about the open social Web.