Tag Archive: LinkedIn

Don’t Get Caught With Your Social Pants Down. Six Considerations For The Social Conference.

Tweet Traditional conferences versus social conferences. Which will you plan this year? Not sure about the “Social Conference?” Read this post on “Screw Your Event Resolutions. Do You Conference Social?” Here are six things to consider when planning the Social Conference so you don’t get caught with your social pants down. 1. In this new information…

Porches, Greek Porticos, Refrigerator Rights & Social Media

Tweet Debra Askanase has an interesting post, Front Yard and Back Yard Conversations, about the progression of relationships in social media.  Go read it. I’ll be here waiting for you when you return.  She suggests that many social media platforms are like front yards and that relationships really develop in people’s back yards where the…

Since When Did Virtual Not Become A Live Experience?

Tweet I’m tired of well-intentioned adults slamming adults, teens and kids that text. Especially those that text each other while in the same room. I’m sick of association and organization leaders knocking online communities, social networks and live chats as inferior to face-to-face experiences. I’m also fed-up with event producers and face-to-face conference organizers bashing…

Why Do You Tweet?

Tweet Do you use Twitter? Facebook? Blogs? LinkedIn? The Internet? If you do, why? Seriously, what’s your intention of going online? Now, why do you use social media? For fun, to sell, to learn, to socialize, to find your community… Ruder Finn, one of the world’s largest public relations agencies, released the RF Intent Index, July…

Think Social Media Is A Fad That Will Eventually Implode? Think Again.

Tweet We’ve all heard the jabs and criticism: “Social media is a fad and will eventually die.” One of my favorite negative stabs came from a Baby Boomer at a corporation. He said to me, “Oh, all of you connected to your mobile devices and computers don’t get it. It’s a fad. It’s going to…