Woo hoo–it’s finally here–blogcation! I could have been crafty and set up a week’s worth of posts to post daily, but that didn’t seem very vacation-y. Here are a few of my favorite posts from the past year–if you’re so compelled to read a post by me, far be it from me to deny you: […]
Archives for July 2010
Increasing Demand For Social Media Managers
Last Friday I was in heaven; my friends Kiki L’Italien and Maddie Grant devoted a sizeable chunk of time on that day’s episode of Delcor’s Social Media Sweetspot to my favorite topic: social media salaries. The conversation starts about 14:50 in the video below, in case you missed it: Of course you should not only […]
Some Thanks for the Thankless
Social media jobs definitely have their ups and downs, but it’s nice to see some love for the folks who are fighting the good fight and blazing trails for the rest of us. If customer service is a thankless job, how about a customer service job that you can never escape from, that requires attention […]
I Take Back My Jab at Posterous
Remember a few months ago I called Posterous the “lazy man’s blog platform”? I totally take it back now. Ok, actually, that’s not true–it’s not that I take it back–it IS the lazy man’s blog platform–but, only in the best sense of the word “lazy.” I’m obsessed with it now. I’d set up a blog […]
Social Media Internships: Who’s Teaching Who?
I follow DcSocMediaJobs on Twitter and can’t help but notice that most of the listings are for either volunteer opportunities or internships. As someone who’s never had an internship, I admit I don’t know much about them, but from what I do understand about them, they’re sort of a two-way street: the intern gets to […]
Facebook Fan Page Notifier
So you manage a Facebook Page? Or several? I’d be willing to bet one of your pet peeves is the lack of Facebook’s capability to alert you when someone has posted a comment on your wall or responded to one of your posts. Because Facebook doesn’t offer this feature, your only recourse is to obsessively […]
5 Reasons Why Foursquare Won’t Be a Mainstream Success
According to this article, Foursquare is well on its way to mainstream success. Maybe if you live in a social media-friendly city like Austin Foursquare is well on its way to becoming mainstream; where I live–a suburb of Washington, DC–I can tell you that Foursquare has a LONG way to go before it becomes anything […]
What’s the ROI of the Old Spice Guy?
This just in: despite the massive viral popularity of the Old Spice guy, sales of Old Spice are down. Shocker. I don’t care how fun/viral/clever/sexy/whatever you dub the campaign, at the end of the day, it’s still Old Spice, the cologne of a million grandpas of yesteryear. Here’s the thing: how much of the incredible […]
Old Spice is cool now?
Who cares if you can’t make a call from the iPhone 4–it makes video blogging so fun and easy! I was going to write a post about this whole Old Spice social media campaign, but instead I just made a (really poor quality) video instead. A) Yes, I’m uncomfortable on video so I look and […]
Social Media Salary Craziness
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about my favorite topic: social media salaries. Since a lot of you find this blog through Google searches for “social media salary” I figure I’m not the only one who’s obsessed with the topic, so I may as well do another post about it, right? What’s there to […]