Give these books as holiday presents this year

With the holiday season upon us, knowing what to give as a gift is on everyone’s minds. I have a few suggestions to make gift selection easier.

With Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust you’ll learn everything you need to know about how to be successful in [...]

How I Process Blogs and What I Do With All That Info

I am a self-professed information junkie. It’s in my bio on Twitter, my Twitter background and my blog. I’ve said before that I read about 5 books at once. Currently I’m up to 10.
I subscribe to over 1000 blogs on Google Reader. My favorite blogs I subscribe to via email. I have an Alltop [...]

Can designers change the world?

I won Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World on Twitter several months ago. I entered the contest because I was intrigued by the idea of design being able to create sustainable change. Poor design was definitely apparent during the elections in Florida a couple of years ago.
Designers have an essential social [...]

A taste of social media madness

I got this flyer on the third day of Advertising Week, September 23 and I think it perfectly illustrates where social media is right now. Enjoy!

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Advertising Week – Day 3

Today is officially the last day of Advertising Week. Unfortunately I was only able to make it to the first three days.  I was just overwhelmed by the enormous amount of information and just plain craziness involved in attending a multiple day conference.
I’m glad that I choose to attend though. I might not try to [...]

Groundswell – How do your customers connect?

If you are anywhere online these days knowing who you serve is important to your bottom line. Forrest Research has published a book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies that helps you do just that. The book’s key message is that it helps you better understand how social technologies like YouTube, Twitter [...]

Fixing your piggy bank

It’s no secret that the financial industry has a serious image problem at the moment. They also don’t have the most user friendly websites either. There are two financial websites that I think are getting it right. They are listening to feedback from their users and making changes that are useful as well. Sometimes those [...]