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Guy Kawasaki Twitter Keynote at Search Engine Strategies, New York 2009
03.24.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

He titled the keynote, “Twitter As A Tool For Social Media: Nobodies are the new Somebody.” While 80% of the audience at SES NY admitted to be “twittering” while Guy was talking, his keynote read like an intro to Twitter, but that is not to say that it was not without a few new nifty tools.
Business, social media
New Rules in the Sales in the Age of Conversation.
03.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Internet & Technolog Presentations & Slid sales tools
Also, take a look at this Squidoo Lens.
Age of Conversation, Press, social media
Announcing Our Social Networking Marketing Venture
02.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Today Carly Harrington wrote a nice piece about Shawn Van Dyke and I in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Shawn and I have been throwing around ideas about the web as a series of spokes around a central web hub for a few months.
Think a hub and spokes concept, with the hub being the Web site [...]
Age of Conversation, Web 2.0, social media
Conversation Era
01.13.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

photo by tochis
So, they have talked about it for some time. I just want to say, “it’s here.” Welcome to the age of the conversation. Don’t believe me? Leave me a comment below, and we can talk about it.
The days of standing in an auditorium with a spotlight on stage shouting while the audience obediently [...]
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Rules of the Road-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Twitterverse
12.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

140 characters. That’s all you get. Accept a few terms–no bells and whistles, no groups, no pokes, no pictures. In 140 characters you can talk about walking your dog, report live accounts of breaking news, or link to relevant information. Very basic, right?
Not exactly. I have been on Twitter since April, and it is interesting [...]
social media
Social Media Marketing “Hub and Spoke”
12.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I was at an Entrepreneurs of Knoxville meeting last week talking about the interplay between social media sites and main sites (however you define “main sites” blogs, main pages, or otherwise). It reminded me of this slide that I threw together for a client a few months ago:
It is certainly not a new idea to [...]
social media, twitter
Blog is Dead? Blog remains Dead?
11.08.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Paul Boutin’s recent Wired article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, suggests that the blogosphere is too crowded for a lone blogger to make a difference, and it it time to fold up shop on blogging:
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater [...]
social media, twitter
Twitter Most Popular Social Media Tool
10.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

According to my recent poll, it looks like Twitter is the most popular social tool. Although the respondents were a fairly limited set (only 10 because I am lame and no one really wants to take my polls), here are the results:

50% Twitter
40% Facebook
10% LinkedIn
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Tracking Gustav…on Twitter
08.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As Category 4 Gustav clips Cuba and tracks towards New Orleans, people from all over are sharing stories about the brewing storm on Twitter. If you load this page, by the time you read the first tweet you will see 10 new tweets. CNN is using the live feed to report information online with Rich [...]