March 8-17, 2010: National MS Society’s “Be the Hero” Contest!
I was recently contacted by some friends about the National Multiple Sclerosis awareness campaign this week. I’ve known several people to suffer from MS and have been touched by seeing others mention that they have had family members afflicted with MS. Therefore this week I’m going to donate my Facebook status to the MS campaign [...]
Ignite Raleigh Top 10
Last night was the second Ignite Raleigh held at the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh. Ignite is a unique event in that it is an idea exchange where presenters have 5 minutes and 20 slides to communicate their message. I thought last night was better than last year’s event in many ways and [...]
Does a Generation Own Behavior?
This week I took the Pew Research Center Millennial Quiz. After seeing several friends post their scores on Twitter I gave it a try. My score was 61 out of 100 and placed me between Gen X and Gen Y or Millennials as they are now called. The higher the score the more I have in [...]
Five Starting Points to Build Your Online Presence
Last month I spoke to the Triangle Area Freelancers on how to use social media to market yourself. The group is primarily freelance writers and they had some excellent questions including:
Should I get on Twitter?
Where do I start with social media?
Blogger or Wordpress, which is better and should I pay to host my site?
I have [...]
Tri-Out Launches New Approach to Geolocation
Last night I attended the TriOut launch party at RTP headquarters. Needless to say there was a great turnout and incredible energy and excitement to see what new features would be announced. I was very interested in seeing what would make TriOut different from other location based apps like Foursquare, Brightkite, etc. Also I think [...]
Games at Work? Are You Serious?
I had the opportunity to attend my first Triangle Interactive Marketing Association (@TIMA_NC) meeting this week. The speaker was Phaedra Boinodiris, Serious Games Program Manager from IBM. Now I have to admit when I saw her title I wanted to ask her, “seriously this is your title?” But after hearing her present at the meeting [...]
Need Social Media Training? Get That and Help Haiti!
Originally posted by David B. Thomas on conversations and connections – social media at SAS
Photo by United Nations Development Programme / CC BY 2.0
Recently Mitch Joel and Joseph Jaffe promised to auction off keynote addresses for Haiti relief, with their services going to the highest bidder. This idea inspired me to [...]
What the Heck Do I Do? A Lesson in using LinkedIn
Sometimes you get so engaged and excited that you forget some of the chaos you cause by going 90 miles an hour. I had an interesting conversation with a former co-worker who brought to my attention how this was happening to me and causing confusion about my company’s brand. The conversation centered on some confusion [...]
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