Drew: Are you my long-lost friend Daria? Me: Yes, but I didn't know I was lost. I recently reconnected with two close friends. We'd lost contact due to some combination of distance, jobs, families, and the minutia of managing our...
Social media can be awesome. We can build amazing communities and engage with customers, clients, colleagues, and (new and old) friends across the globe. Heck, we can even tweet with people in space. And we have lots of people hard at work trying to create relevance...
Should you be on LinkedIn? Plaxo? BizSugar or Open Forum? While it’s easy to be online, the vast array of options can leave even the social-media-savviest business person overwhelmed. At last check, my AddThis button linked to over 230 separate platforms/sites....
When was the last time you clicked on the “Show Options” button at the top of the Google search results page? If you haven’t looked lately, take a peak. There are some good Web tools available to help you visualize the data. My two favorites: 1. Timeline gives you a...
Want to know how communicators are using social media? You could pose a question on Twitter or you could do a deep dive. MarketingProfs did the latter, surveying 4,763 marketers and others managing communications for their organizations. That included 3,285 who...
What happens when you put smart people on a dais together and ask them about trends in their profession? If they are Shashi Bellamconda, Torod Neptune, Paul Sherman, and John Taylor, then we’re in for some great insights. I had the pleasure of moderating last...
My friend and uber-trainer Lee Watts asked me the other day about collaborative blogs. His idea is to bring together several colleagues in related fields (i.e., sports performance, nutrition, physical therapy, and so forth) to create a broader and more dynamic go-to...
How has the communications landscape changed? And what do these shifts mean for businesses and the people charged with marketing, communications, and so forth? In advance of next Thursday's IABC/Washington panel on 2010 trends in communications, I talked to Shonali...
In case anyone still thinks Twitter is all about what we ate for lunch, a look at Twitter's top trending topics in 2009 should put that to rest for good. The Iran election was the top trending news topic, with swine flu, Gaza, Iran, and Tehran rounding out the top...
Two people recently have wanted to connect via Instant Messenger. The problem: I don't use IM. I find it disruptive. It's like a conversation that demands to be had, right now. But what is instant? My friend Jeremy Meyers points out that Twitter isn't, because when we...