How do others see you is a question that I was asked yesterday. It really made me think, I know how I want others to see me, but do I really know how they actually see me. No of course the “me” I’m talking about is the brand me not the person me. That can [...]
November 15, 2011 By
Focusing on Strengths
There are approximately six weeks until the New Year, I find that this is a good point in the year to spend some time focusing on strengths and decide what next year is going to look like. What are you going to do differently next year? Defining next year is not just about writing a [...]
October 27, 2011 By
Chime.In – A Path Through The Noise
I recently signed up for another social network, as though I don’t already have enough to manage. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Untappd, Foursquare etc. etc. etc. So why would I sign up for yet another platform? Well firstly of course I sign up for platforms to review them, see if they have anything to [...]
October 21, 2011 By
When Your Favorite Service Closes
What happens on the internet stays on the internet – or so they say, how many times have you been warned that posting things on websites might come back to haunt you in years to come? Once again this week has disproved that to me. Two of the services that I have been using for [...]
October 19, 2011 By
Will A Lack of Vision Sink Social in 2012?
There are only a few weeks left in 2011 the year that Social Media was supposed to become “normal” and yet as a recent report by Booz & Company/Buddy Media shows the majority of companies are fixated on Twitter and Facebook. That really isn’t that surprising, especially when the C-Suite are so familiar with status [...]
October 17, 2011 By
Social Media Storytelling: Is Advertising better than Marketing?
Over the past five years or so I’ve seen lots of discussion about where Social Media should sit in an organization. Some will say it has to be in the Marketing department, others insist that it is a PR activity. What everyone agrees on is that the Advertising department shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the [...]
October 13, 2011 By
Is Social Media Broken?
Can Social Media really be called Social any longer, is Social Media broken beyond all repair? Almost since its launch, people have been observing the “Echo Chamber” effect of Twitter. There have been studies that only 20% of the users are actually producing original content, the other 80% are simply reposting that content. Some have [...]
September 28, 2011 By
Is Google + little more than an Echo?
I was browsing Google + earlier today and came across an interesting comment by Michael Brito – “I have no idea of what to share here on Google+” he wrote. It struck me as a very good observation on the platform and on Social Networks in general. Of course quite a few people weighed in [...]
July 11, 2011 By
Does Pressure Help You Work?
Does pressure help you or hurt you? Like a lot of people I’ve been spending time on Google plus over the past week and a half and yesterday Chris Bailey shared the Nike commercial featuring the US Women’s soccer team. The video is below. The video made me think about pressure that we impose on [...]
May 27, 2011 By
Your Life Isn’t That Interesting
You have a really interesting life. Apparently, at least according to some companies, our lives are now so amazing, so packed full of interesting information that cannot be missed at any cost, that we must have Social Media streamed to us wherever we are in case we miss something important. Social Media Makes for an [...]
