Along with the hyper growth of social media platforms over the past few years, comes the army of awful marketers that spam, mislead and embellish their experience. The term Social Media Douchebag has seemed to be the winning term to describe these folks, and there are quite a few funny sites detailing their exploits (see here and here). That being said, I feel it is my duty to perform a Social Media Douchebag audit on myself to ensure I don’t unwillingly succumb to the dark side. Freight ...
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Mom & Pop Need Your Social Media Help
I've been back home the past week or so in Chicago visiting family and friends. It's always great to get back and visit, eat the great food, and feel some actual summer heat. Seattle has been failing in delivering any sort of summer so far. In addition to our visit back, my wife and I were able to escape the kids for a few days and rent a cabin from a really cool place up by Lake Geneva called Seven Oaks (a great place to stay by the way if you're in the area). For the past few days, we ...
Pitching Social Media: Key Takeaways I’ve Learned In 6 Months
It's hard to believe that it's only been roughly 6 months since I left Microsoft for the agency world. In that time I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and all the planning and strategy work is starting to pay off as the last few months have had me constantly driving new business for the firm. At Strategies 360 we have a unique approach as we combine public policy & government relations work along with the communications, marketing and PR work that traditional agencies focus on. It's been ...
5 Must Have Social Media & Productivity Chrome Extensions
Over the past year I’ve really worked at giving a variety of web browsers a fair shake at becoming my go to browser for every day use. I’ve used the major players such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even gave RockMelt a spin (see here for my review of that platform). While I have found myself predominately using Chrome for a variety of reasons such as speed, performance, UI and quite frankly I love the extension platform. I’m not alone as usage of Chrome has climbed past 20% market ...
Webnation TV Appearance
Certainly the highlight of my Toronto trip last week was getting the opportunity to appear on the tech show Webnation that is part of the CP24 network which is a Canadian news channel. The show is hosted by Amber Mac who was also the keynote speaker at SES Toronto. Often times television personalities and book authors can be a bit pretentious, but I found Amber to be really down to earth and a pleasure to work with on the segment. Interestingly I had no idea the show was live and not taped, ...
SES Toronto & WebNation TV Appearance
Mental note…don’t wait till the last minute to pull out our passport when you’re going out of the country. I learned that the hard way this morning when I had to scramble to get a new passport in 1 day to make my Toronto trip this Sunday to SES Toronto. Surprisingly you can actually get a passport in one day if you have all your documentation. Very expensive however. So I’m off to give another Social Media On A Budget presentation at SES Toronto. The first one in NY did ...
