Nearly every conference you go to now days has a Social Media Command Center. You know, the place where they have a large screen monitor placed up on a wall, or on a stand, that is framed with the logos of every sponsor of the event. On the monitor is a streaming feed of […]
How Mistrusting Smiley Faces can Kill a Business Deal
I am sure every business person has experienced some level of awkwardness from running into someone who several months (or years) ago they left an assortment of different messages with on a business deal they were working on and got no response from any of the messages. Yes, it happens and sometimes there are …
Spam vs Social Media
A while ago, I was having an online discussion chat debate cat-fight slam-down steel-cage bitch-session (OK, just a flat out) argument with a fellow (I assume was a fellow since the language used in their hotmail emails was rather masculine) on the virtues of Social Media verses old Web 1.0 methods of SPAM. Yes, …
Is There anyone Really Out There?
Hello..is anyone out there in La-La-Land? Of course there is but is anyone reading anything others post on Twitter or Facebook? You have seen the recent studies showing that a very small percentage of people are actually engaged on Twitter and even less are reading the stuff that is being posted. So the questions I […]