Southby 2010

I’ve been trying to put this year’s South by Southwest Interactive experience into words, but it’s proving impossible. I was hoping to come home inspired and focused, and I definitely got what I wanted. I’ve already been doing some work in the area of online privacy, and the keynotes and sessions I went to proved [...]

101 Lists

I just noticed that I’m on 101 Twitter lists. Lists are a new feature that let you group people you follow any way you like, publicly or privately. I have a few lists myself: Jersey people, funny people, creative people- and a couple private ones that include the folks I like to follow a little [...]

Blogworld Expo Free T-Shirt Round-up

I’ve got lots to say about Blogworld Expo, but let’s start simple. How was the schwag? Specifically, how were the t-shirts? I only grabbed shirts from 3 sponsors, so this isn’t an inclusive list… Most Well-Targeted to the Crowd: Geeks love braaaains! (from Server Beach) Most WTF: Complete with a Sharpie to fill in the [...]

One Goal

I’m heading to Blog World Expo this week and my main goal for this conference is to come away with something NEW and BIG and CHALLENGING to work on. I have no idea what that might be, or even what form that might take. It could be a client for Pixel Currents, it could be [...]

Free Intro to Social Media Presentation

This Thursday, September 3, I’ll be joining Eva Abreu to present Intro to Social Media at the Highland Park (NJ) Library. This is the first in a series of sessions Eva has arranged titled Making Connections Using Social Media. More information may be found at Social Media Connections. If you’re in the area I’d love [...]

How to add an alternate or maiden name in Facebook

One of the most popular posts on my personal blog explains how to insert your maiden name (or other alternate name) into your profile. In fact I get a lot of people who run a search from within Facebook itself. Since it seems to be something people want to know, I thought I’d repeat the [...]

Seth Godin on Social Networking for Business

It’s about relationships, not numbers!

NY Times Story on Marketing Small Businesses with Twitter

“We think of these social media tools as being in the realm of the sophisticated, multiplatform marketers like Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, but a lot of these supersmall businesses are gravitating toward them because they are accessible, free and very simple,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst who studies the Internet’s influence on shopping and local businesses. [...]

We the Tweeple

People don’t get Twitter. No, I know you do, I’m talking about those other people. The ones who look at me like this O_o (see what I did there?) when I say I’ve been using Twitter regularly for over two years. The ones who say “Who cares what I’m doing and why should I care [...]

(Very) Random SXSWi highlights

As most of you know I finally traveled to Austin TX for the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference (SXSWi). I’ve been wanting to go since 2007 when, shortly after I joined Twitter, I started following social media types talking about the conference. Attending this year was a pretty last minute decision. It’s expensive, for [...]