DC Web Women, which runs a listserv designed primarily to enable peer-to-peer support and education in technology and new media, has been in the midst of a brouhaha lately about marketing. Or, more accurately, a few people seem very upset that the listserv guidelines...
There's been a lot of discussion about the new "chocolate and peanut butter" pact that enables cross-posting between Twitter and LinkedIn. My reading of LinkedIn's description of the new functionality is that people will have the option to selectively cross-post...
The good news about having to abruptly leave a conversation is that you keep pondering the unfinished thought. For me, that conversation was Tuesday's hashtagsocialmedia tweetchat, organized by Marc Meyer and moderated by Jason Falls. The topic was Twitter and, when I...
Have you tried to send a personalized LinkedIn invitation lately? I'm a big believer in personalizing my invitations for several reasons: I'm inviting one person to join my network, not sending out a mass mailing. It's a valuable way to follow-up with someone and tell...
Call it Web squared or just a data explosion, but the universe isn't the only thing that's expanding. So is the volume of information out there in bytes and megabytes. Take Twitter, for example. When I first signed up, I wasn't following enough people to need any...
As with (likely) everyone else who attended, I enjoyed BlogPotomac last week. Geoff Livingston deserves kudos for bringing the Washington region's communications pros, techies, and bloggers together for a broad-reaching discussion around social media and the social...
Apparently I had too much on my plate when the IABC Research Foundation study on information overload was released last year because I missed it completely. Big mistake, because it contains some useful takeaways--which Julie Freeman discussed in her Heritage Region...
I turned down a ticket to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yesterday, opting instead to bring another online relationship offline. So I had drinks with Sonny Gill, a super-cool community manager and basketball fanatic with whom I've been tweeting for some time. The...
The Baltimore Running Festival turned 9 this year, and I've run either the half-marathon or the relay five times and signed up and been unable to run a couple more. In other words, I love this race--and it isn't for the unrelenting hills. Here are a few of the...
Why do people keep asking, "how do you find the time to..." [fill in the blank]? Lately, the question's been in relation to social media, but I've heard it in a lot of business contexts over the years. I don't have a time turner, so I haven't figured out yet how to be...