Tools don’t matter, and the best ones get out of the way, allowing people to connect more easily and effectively. That was my big takeaway from last Friday’s second-annual Blog Potomac. Obsessing about “what’s next” in online services and technology saps too much valuable attention away from what’s really important: connecting with people. We need […]
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How one company uses Web 2.0 tools to run and promote their business
Everyone wants to be more efficient, productive, and successful, and knowing what steps to take is key. Here’s the run down on some awesome time and cost-saving techniques that will help you run your business.
How an LA Weekly journalist uses social media
How LA Weekly uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 7-minute interview with the utterly charming, thoughtful and geekworthy Alexia Tsotsis, the tech and business reporter for the LA Weekly newspaper. The bangin’, off-the-hook tech columnist talks about how how the LA tech scene differs from the scene in Silicon Valley: In […]
Social media think tank
Spent Saturday afternoon at a think tank put on by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators, who’ve just begun their World Conference. As 30 of us gathered at the San Francisco Hilton, organizer Shel Holtz said that this was the first IABC think tank convened around a single topic: social media. […]
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, […]