Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer: The Practical Guide To Content Tagging In Social Bookmarking. Principal points: Keep It Simple I would recommend using no more than 2-3 tags per piece of content and keep the words very generic. If it’s about social media measurement then maybe tag it “socialmedia” and “measurement”. If you’re ever […]
A new service for cause organizations
My longtime friend Tom Watson, author of CauseWired, launched a new venture on Thursday: CauseWired Communications LLC. Tom writes on Facebook: Susan Carey Dempsey, my longtime partner in publishing onPhilanthropy.com, is joining me in launching the new firm, which will assist organizations and campaigns in creating inspiring messages for causes that change the world. … […]
Who isn’t a social media strategist?
TwistImage: Who isn’t a new media/social media strategist? If you look at many of the profiles found on Blogs and people’s ultra-short/sharp bios on Twitter, you will notice something very interesting: almost everybody says that they are either a New Media Strategist or a Social Media Strategist. What, exactly, does that mean and how can […]
Welcome to the empowerment age
John Eckman at Open Parenthesis: Welcome to the empowerment age.
2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.