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10 Twitter Tools for Learning – Twitter is Cooler Than You Think
Many people think Twitter isn't cool. They see people posting messages like: "I ate a sandwich!" They follow their friends and talk about how bored they are. If you think Twitter is a waste of time, maybe you should take another look. Twitter can be used as a tool to grow as a person. [...] read more…
Taking Care of Business: The Importance of Social Media T.V. Interview
This week Cleveland social media advocates, Brad Kleinman, Susie Sharp and David Toth appeared on The Village Television network's weekly program, Taking Care of Business, hosted by Ilinda Reese. Their discussion provides a good introduction to the many ways you can use social media for personal and business reasons. Watch the video below. read more…
Duck and cover, the sky is falling, Twitter was down.
Like so many other people around the world, I woke up yesterday morning to discover that Twitter wasn't working. "Oh well", I thought, "I'll just check it later." Then I went back to the tasks at hand. Later in the day Twitter was back up, a bit wobbly, but mostly functional. Bloggers everywhere were talking about the outage—the result of a denial of service attack (DoS)—that also impacted Facebook and other sites. Problems continue today. read more…
Face-to-face: calendaring
My favorite subject to hammer on is that of using social media to get out and meet people face-to-face. This was the subject of my eBook chapter and the talk I gave at the launch party. But in order to meet people, you have to be in the same place at the same [...] read more…
Blog commenting as a network builder
Yesterday I put up a post on my personal blog about my quest to find a blogreader (whether an application or an online service) that would allow me to read the comments along with the posts I'm reading. In talking about it with Heidi, she reminded me of a post she'd written some time [...] read more…
Marketing, monitoring and sharing via delicious
The other week, at the Cleveland Bloggers meet-up, George Nemeth and I had a brief discussion about this site. While we were chatting, George mentioned that since our focus is social media, we'd like to open about the project. My thought on this matter is that we can use this blog to let you, our readers, see behind the scenes as it were. So I thought I'd tell you why I just spent 3 minutes or so bookmarking the Welcome to Social Media eBook chapters on delicious. read more…
Welcome to Social Media Launches Today!
In conjunction with today's launch of the Welcome to Social Media, Volume 1 eBook, this blog has been created to share insights, ideas, observations and tips regarding social media and social networking. read more…
City of Bozeman, MT demands job applicants’ social media passwords
I knew you would all love this story. “In order for us to get access to the chosen candidate’s information, we need to be able to view their page,” Sullivan said, according to a transcript of the interview. “And so that’s the way we’ve chosen to go about doing it. As far as we know, there’s [...] read more…
Live Blogging @ Opera Cleveland
[ June 17, 2009; 6:15 pm to 10:15 pm. ] Calling all Cleveland area bloggers. You and a guest are invited to blog - live - at the final dress rehearsal of Falstaff on June 17th, from 6:15pm until the final curtain. This is a great opportunity to blog and tweet about one of Cleveland's great cultural assets from "behind the scenes." read more…
TECHnic! Summer Picnic
[ June 20, 2009; ] Your family, friends, fellow workers AND YOU are invited to join us in beautiful Parma, Ohio for TECHnic! The best chance in Cleveland to enjoy summer fun with the many technicians, developers, and other IT firms in Northeast Ohio. read more…
