Today, as with many days, I was piled in meetings, end to end. Conference calls, to be specific, but much the same thing. And while we often lament the productivity-killing meeting, there are such things as meetings with merit. But whether you’re the one on the organizing end or just Read more »
Displaying all posts for January, 2010
Social Media Ebooks You May Have Missed
Because I’m not always stellar about updating some of the other pages of my blog, I wanted to collect the ebooks I’ve written all in one place, so you can have at them if you need them, and so I have an easy place to point folks to when they Read more »
It’s Not Them. It’s You.
Or it might be, anyway. I love hearing all the various and sundry excuses that roll around out there for why something doesn’t or can’t work for your business. You’re in B2B. You’re in B2C. You’re a non-profit. You don’t have enough time. You have a limited budget. You can’t Read more »
Being the Constructive Heretic
My insightful friend Tamsen has helped me realize something this year about my professional self that I didn’t quite realize with such clarity before: I’m the person that tends to go against the grain, but with the aim of forward progress. I work very hard to toe lines and push Read more »
7 Social Media Roles You Haven’t Considered
When you think of social media roles, chances are you think of a community manager or the oh-so-generic “social media manager”, which is usually some function of the marketing department managing strictly social media programs. But there are loads of other potential roles that can integrate or represent social media Read more »
Tough Love: We Have Work To Do
I say “we”, because I include myself in what I’m about to say. Yesterday, I posted that what we really need is more people with solid business skills. And Justin commented, rightly so, that many of the people shouting AMEN might just be part of the problem. He’s not wrong. Read more »
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