Every time I see Jeremiah Owyang’s list of corporate social media strategists and community managers I wonder when he’ll do a similar list for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees–or nonprofits, for that matter. I’m realizing he has his hands full trying to keep up with the list of enterprise social media types since the […]
Is Work/Life Balance Possible In Social Media Careers?
I’ll say right off the bat that this post is going to be half-baked because I’m rushing to write it because it’s 9:30 pm and my husband hates when I’m blogging at 9:30 pm. But Ryan Paugh, Community Manager at Brazen Careerist, started a great discussion today in the Community Manager group there and I […]
Things Every Parent Should Know About Facebook
Last weekend I was setting up a Facebook page for my pre-teen niece (and a corresponding one for her dad so he can monitor how she’s using it). It occurred to me as I was trying to dredge up from memory various pieces of what I consider to be necessary information about Facebook that, just […]
Ignoring Social Media Cost Democrats a Senate Seat
I haven’t done a rah-rah social media post in a while, but I think it’s about time I did one. A few current events are proving how big social media has become and how much to your peril it is to ignore it: David Meerman Scott predicted the outcome of the Massachusetts election by pointing […]
Facebook Users: Get Ready for a Deluge of Spam
What’s the percent chance that Facebook developers, if given the option to request or even require your email address in order to use their applications, would NOT use those email addresses to spam the crap out of you? We’ll soon find out, since, effective Wednesday, January 20, Facebook’s new email API will be going live. […]