What to do when “you’re doing it wrong” goes wrong
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Let’s face it — social media consultants/strategists/ninjas/experts/jedis/gurus/swamis/mavens/ringmasters/highpriestesses/whatevers are know-it-alls, even when, as I and many others have pointed out, nobody can possibly know it all. Yet deep down, we (and I say “we” because I admit that yes, I do fall into that sweeping category of “social media people”) really just want to...
Read MoreMusical Monday Highlight: Hayley Westenra
One of the many reasons I love Twitter is that I discover some pretty awesome things because they discover me first. Heck, it’s because of Twitter that I discovered WildEarth.tv and was able to share it with you. I always take a look at each new follower when I get a notification because I never know when I’m going to find somebody or something truly remarkable. One such instance was last week, when I was followed by @HayleyWestenra, whose bio says: Purpose is to further the...
Read MoreTweeple: Pwease stop tawking wike Tweety Bird
Since the advent of Twitter, and especially the ever-increasing popularity of its API, there has been an explosion of third-party applications using “tw-” as a prefix. We can list ourselves and find people by profession on Twellow, measure somebody’s Twinfluence, watch and tweet Twiddeos, and if we have OS X, tweet from our dashboard via Twidget. The list of apps is practically infinite. Of course, just as naturally, I suppose, has our lexicon increasingly been speckled...
Read Moreblip.fm adds YouTube videos, indie musicians benefit BIG TIME
Once in a while at night while super multitasking (read: not being all that productive because I’m trying to do too much at once), I’m known to blip. For the uninitiated, blip.fm is known as “the Twitter of music,” in that you can play (or “blip”) songs while attaching a little message to them, and you can follow (they say “subscribe”) to other users (“Blip.fm DJs”) much like on Twitter. A blip on blip.fm: And to pile on top of all...
Read MoreFinding comfort in transparency
Last week I had a family emergency, and I tweeted it. To my recollection, I don’t remember having ever tweeted anything so. . . heavy like that. I think it’s safe to say that most people, as much as they preach about transparency in social media, probably would not have done that. I did hesitate — briefly. But I chose to do it for a few reasons: Some of my close “real life” friends are on Twitter, including my BFF Kelly (please tell her to change her username so...
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