The Real Blind Influence

It is an interesting time for social media.  Fifteen years ago bulletin boards and  forums were the only platforms available.  Three to five years ago blogs, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook were carving out a niche.  This week Google announced Buzz which was added to the internet social landscape along with Twitter, Side Wiki, Wave, SlideShare, [...]

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If you are still worried about your information being on the web, get over it.  Google your phone number and you’ll see your name and address with a link to Google Maps.
That information has been online for at least a couple of years.  Has it hurt you? I doubt it.  You’d be better served to [...]

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This the follow up to a post I wrote last week.  It seemed a little more palatable to serve this up in smaller chunks.  So here are more musings based on my research, experience and conversations with people confused about this whole social media thing.  I hope this helps you to understand the social media [...]

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Photo source: Bilal Al-badry’s blog
The main conversations around social media are misguided by debating the usefulness of the tools based on people with limited knowledge misusing them.  Like all human communication, some of what people use the tools for will be nonsense and some will be valuable.
How people individually use social networking tools is the [...]

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I just read a London Telegraph article mistitled “The Social Media Revolution is Going Nowhere.” It included statements like
No wonder the company has yet to make any money, while Facebook, too, has yet to deliver on its financial potential. None of this is to say, of course, that the internet hasn’t had a profound [...]

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Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century.  Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid.
One [...]

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On most Tuesday nights I volunteer with SnapImpact on making an iPhone app called iVolunteer (see the app on the lower right corner of this blog) to help you find local volunteer opportunities.  More than 50 people have contributed in some way to this project.  One thing I love is that our ages range from [...]

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It’s Wednesday morning and I’ve already attended a Tweetup with about 20 people, the first Boulder Beer and Blog (both of which I learned about on Monday on Twitter) and the biweekly Boulder Open Coffee Club .
I’ve also missed the first Boulder Denver New Tech meetup held in Denver and the latest iVolunteer meetup. Tonight [...]

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In an upcoming post I’ll delve into the magnificence of “O,” one of the six Cirque Du Soleil resident shows in Las Vegas.  But first I have to write a bit about how smart they are with their marketing and what you can learn from how they influence and use influencers to build their [...]

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One of the best marketing books ever written is Seth Godin’s latest: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.
In reading this book I was reminded of the tribes I’ve gravitated to and been a part of throughout my life.  They ranged from a church youth group, cliques in school, friends who liked the same music, [...]

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