Posts Tagged ‘Communication’

Extending the Event Experience Online

Meet my friend Becky Johns. She’s one of the many talented folks living, working and making media art up in the great state of Michigan.  Becky is a self-taught, uber-talented photographer and rising PR rock star.  She’s also a blast to hang out with.  All things considered, it’s not hard to see why she’s popping up on radar. [...]

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Case Study: TasteCasting Applies Human Business Teams to the Restaurant Industry

Human Business Teams truly are not that complicated of a concept. We live in a world where humans create and spread media on the web.  We share.  We build trust.  We interact with each other through technology.  That’s just the reality for life (and business), right? At face value, it might appear that it’s every man [...]

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How Serendipity Works

Serendipity seems to happen in business much more than it used to.  Why?  There are folks like you and I using social media tools that have increased the frequency of serendipity. Yet it’s still one of the hardest things to explain to business folks.  There’s no “serendipity metric.”  There probably never will be either. Sometimes things [...]

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How To Benchmark Your Twitter Presence Using Two Tools

It’s been a while since I’ve done a “How To” user-oriented post.  Shame on me. At Incept (client), we’ve been working to train the iCME’s (client link, too) to use Twitter to connect with customers, donors and various member-based organizations.  Part of the training is also teaching each individual team member how to grow their [...]

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Creating Social Media Messaging is an ART

I’m grateful to have my friend, Kristyn, as a guest blogger today. Kristyn leads media relations for MediaSource, a group of Columbus folks who create content and buzz for their clients. When she’s not working in the world of media, Kristyn is busy being a mom (in the world of media). Here’s her take on Social [...]

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Getting Out to Where You Are

It’s about time for an update on where I’ll be speaking over the next few months, in case you’ll be there too. I talk to a lot of you on Twitter, LinkedIn and in the comments here, and I’m glad to have those opportunities.  But I want to meet you in-person, face-to-face.  In-person is where [...]

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What We Do at Social Business Strategies

I think I’ve confused you.  May I have a few moments to clear things up? You know that Cheryl and I do something related to helping medium-sized and big companies learn how to use social media for business.  That can be a broad range of things, though, can’t it? Conversations with Molly Brochers (one of FahlgrenMortine’s rising [...]

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How To Lead More Productive Collaboration at a Distance

Do you have clients outside of your backyard?  How about business partners? In most cases, that’s pretty common in today’s business environment.  Thank you, Interwebz. At Social Business Strategies, a good amount of the clients Cheryl and I work with live outside of central Ohio.  The nature of the work that we advise and train them on, [...]

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The Rise of Human Business Teams

Welcome to Monday. I’m glad you’re here.  And I’m glad you’re doing your part to inhabit the Interwebz. It’s a beautiful thing – humans like you and I interacting online, that is. I thought about beginning this post with “People of Earth,” a line re-made famous in 1999 (the year I graduated high school) by authors Levine, Locke, [...]

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HOW TO Use Google Voice for Easy PodCasting on Your Blog

There are quite a few reasons why I’m delighted to have Cheryl Harrison on board at Social Business Strategies.  She’s a whiz kid at learning systems, learning how to game them and applying tools and bending rules to get to her objectives. In her post today – on the power of saying “thank you” - Cheryl [...]

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