Top 9 iPhone App Favs

I realized that I love other people’s recommendations – what iPhone apps they are using, where they are eating, what they are driving and what books they are reading. Yet, I don’t share all of those things well with others. So in a hat tip to those who’ve shared with me, here are my top [...]

Thoughts for MBA Students

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on a panel with my friends Chad Parizman and Lynsay Caylor to a class of very bright full-time MBA students at the University of Tennessee. Our topic was social media monetization, although we certainly talked more broadly then that in our time with the class. I enjoyed hearing [...]

The Walls have Ears

Image via Wikipedia I came across this blog post recently where a waiter was fired for twittering while on the job. This wasn’t a case where they were fired just for twittering, it’s because who the tweets were about which is a whole new kind of fail whale. Let’s cut to the chase, if you [...]

How should brands engage online?

I caught a piece on eMarketer by Clark Fredricksen today about the dilemma of customer engagement companies face when moving into social media. The basis of the post is found in the video embedded below. Tension ramps up between the desire to have a presence and the need to participate. To quote the post: Most businesses have [...]

List of twitter accounts for Social Media Business Council enterprise presenters

(EDIT: props to Andy for quickly replying to my email with a bigger and better logo) Thanks to Andy Sernovitz (Blog | Twitter) and GasPedal – the Social Media Business Council they do these awesome video case studies on social media in the enterprise. They’ve been a great resource to learn more about what other [...]

Facebook and my enlightenment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/magtravels/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 To go on the record: I hate messages that aren’t email (I don’t really love email, but at least it’s standardized). Facebook messages, twitter DM’s, Linkedin messages and a host of other isolated systemic proprietary messages are perpetual pricks in my side as I attempt to stay connected and informed. [...]

Online community or communities?

Online involvement has been on my mind recently, specifically the idea of a “unified online presence” to which you may be thinking “What?!” So let me explain, I’ve had the term in my brain for a bit so I figured I picked it up from this guy, or this guy – but a search reveals [...]

Round Two – Don’t call it a comeback

image credit: Mr. Cardinal So it’s been a long while since I’ve blogged at all. But don’t call it a comeback I’ve been using twitter like a maniac, but have steered clear of blogging. The reason was two fold, first I didn’t have the time. I was rapidly adapting to learning how to transition to [...]

Haven’t posted in a long time – you’ll find me @Twitter

So I haven’t posted in a long time. Months in fact, I’ve just found out that for right now, I don’t quite have the time between my work at Abunga.com and life to write down my thoughts in paragraph format. So instead I’ve been Twittering. 50% of you are thinking, “What?” and the other 50% [...]