I’m very happy to announce that my Social Location Marketing book tour is kicking off. I am taking requests for city stops for the tour, which will start in Dallas on Feb 17th and then move on from there. Fort Worth is currently the second stop on Feb 24th. As with most book tours these [...]
December 20, 2010 By
Why Your Blog Doesn’t Get The Traffic It Deserves
An interesting topic came up in Mack Collier’s twitter based#BlogChat last night. It surrounded the notion that “Content is King” and why some blogs that have great content still don’t attract much attention, while others that have only mediocre content get a lot of visitors. The observation of this phenomenon led some to doubt that [...]
December 15, 2010 By
What Paper.Li Can Do For You
There has been an interesting discussion on Twitter over the past week or so. It was led by Rachel Levy who was wondering what the point of the Daily Paper.Li tweets were and whether anyone actually bothered to read them and if they did who got the credit. Rachel conducted a poll and then wrote [...]
December 14, 2010 By
5 Gifts for the Blogger in Your Life this Holiday
Its fast approaching the gift giving day and you maybe wondering what to buy that blogger in your life. After all, what the heck is it that they really do? I mean they write on the web about food or technology or clothes or something and they call it a job. To make things easier [...]
December 13, 2010 By
Is Privacy a Myth in a Social Media World?
Privacy is a recurring theme in Social Media, which reflects much of the recurring themes in the real world. When Facebook makes a change to its layout inevitably someone will raise the specter of how it impacts your privacy. But is all this talk of privacy really just a falsehood, a myth that was created [...]
December 7, 2010 By
Facebook Avatar Changers Make a point
Over the weekend I saw a large number of people in my network on Facebook suddenly change their avatars to be cartoon characters from their childhood to show their stance against Child Abuse. This was another awareness raising campaign, similar in nature the to the “color of your bra” and “where do you keep your [...]
December 6, 2010 By
Never Stop Learning
Yesterday I watched some Football. Now this is probably not that much of an unusual statement to read on a Monday morning in America. However, I really don’t watch sports that often, firstly I’d rather play them than watch them and secondly, even though I have lived in the US for 8.5 years I’m still [...]
December 3, 2010 By
3 Myths of Social Media Influence
Increasingly brands are becoming obsessed with finding and reaching out to the people that they perceive as, or are told are, social media influencers. Agencies, Digital Marketers, Social Media “experts” are telling companies that this is the way “to do” social media effectively. After all there are 500 million people using Facebook, you can’t reach [...]
December 2, 2010 By
Gowalla checks in with Foursquare
Gowalla, the Social Location Sharing app based in Austin, Tx released its new iPhone app today that not only includes a complete redesign of the already slick looking interface but includes in the new functionality the ability to checkin with Foursquare their biggest rival. A lot of people were surprised by this move, including Dennis [...]
December 1, 2010 By
5 Books The Marketer in Your Life Will Want in Their Stocking
As we start the countdown to gift-giving day (or whatever politically correct term we are using this year), I thought I would share five books that you could give the marketer in your life that I know they would appreciate owning. Whether they work with you, for you, you work for them or perhaps you [...]
