Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

7 Outcomes of Organizational Communication & Social Media – A Draft Framework

We seem to have been trained to lump all social media into the bucket of marketing and external communication.  Why is that? I believe that our gravitation towards looking at social media as only a new set of marketing tools has been largely driven by advertising and marketing agency’s quick adoption of them.  Their inrerest, [...]

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Building a Social Media Strategy at Fort Hays State University

Sometimes a wonderful opportunity just happens to fall in your lap. When Mike Brown from Brainzooming called me last month, I immediately knew that the chance to work with him, Keith Prather and Barrett Sydnor on facilitating the Brainzooming process at Fort Hays State University was one of those opportunities. Mike is a Hays Alumni [...]

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8 Steps to Building a Killer Conference Experience (And How BlogPaws Nailed It)

The BlogPaws conference in Columbus, Ohio last weekend was one of the better social media events I’ve been to in the past year. To come up with what I write here, I often reflect on my own experiences as a social media user, event attendee, business owner, and even a consumer.  Yesterday, I started dissecting [...]

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Hootsuite Certified Professionals Directory Fails at Customer Policy

Most of you know that I use (and support) Hootsuite as a social media management platform.  I mention Hootsuite here all the time and have even written entire posts about the browser-based application.  It’s a tool that just works really well. Today, I received the system-generated email you see in the screenshot.  When I saw [...]

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HOW TO Use Twitter Lists for Self Benchmarking in 5 Easy Steps

Twitter Lists have been one of the best innovations our friends in San Francisco have come up with, in my humble opinion.  There are so many possible ways Twitter Lists can be used – we’ve only just started to scratch the surface. Trust me on this one. Part of using Twitter, Twitter Lists, and social [...]

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HOW TO Promote an Event Using Twitter – Guest Hannah DeMilta

I’m pleased to feature the very talented Hannah DeMilta as a guest blogger today. Hannah and I met a few months back via social media, and found that we both shared the Otterbein College experience in Westerville.  She is set to graduate from Otterbein this Spring and has already begun weaving the threads of her [...]

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Desktop Tools To Help You With Productivity

Productivity can be rather tough to maintain.  Over the past few days, I’ve felt less than productive.  It’s not really that big of a deal.  I’m starting to learn that you will always have days and weeks where you feel like you are lagging.  I also know I’m not alone on this.  Do you ever [...]

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CorkShare is Chasing Google Wave – Skype Session with Tim Gasper

Are you are actively using Google Wave to collaborate with your friends? At Social Business Strategies, Marie and I have been dabbling to make it work.  From the experience, we’ve come up with some of our own ideas on how to use Google Wave to your advantage. It’s not hard to understand why using the [...]

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Leadership Framework for a Dynamic Business Environment

Perry Maughmer has become one of my good friends and mentors over the past year.  Our meeting in itself is a testament to the serendipity that happens every day on the social web.  Perry’s ideas and concepts have led to some of the thinking involved in Social Business Strategies position on building Human Business Teams, [...]

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13 Plugins To Make Your WordPress Blog Better

When Joe, at Inline Bits (affiliate link), and I were building the development strategy for the new NateRiggs.com, selecting and installing the right plugins, was a critical discussion early on. One of the reasons that I believe WordPress is such a great blog platform is the variety – and maturity – of the plugins that [...]

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