I've been thinking about the whole "there's no such thing as social media experts" argument lately. I've decided it's wrong. We've heard this "no such thing" argument from a lot of people, including me, who all sound like a bunch of 8-year-olds ...Read More
I've been a humor writer for over 15 years, a blogger for 9, and a social networking junkie for 3. It's in the last few years that I've been really able to focus growing my non-print readership. Even though my ...Read More
I'm not going to repeat the same sad-but-scary stories of how newspapers around the country are folding up like, well, newspapers. No stories about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer going online-only, the Rocky Mountain News, the San Francisco Chronicle. No stories about ...Read More
This post and subsequent discussions can now be found at the Professional Blog Service blog. Yesterday, I talked about how local health departments (LHDs) can use Twitter to communicate about and monitor public health emergencies. I also talked about how to ...Read More
There's been all this talk about how Twitter is going to make money. They may charge businesses who use Twitter. They could mine their data and sell it to marketers. They could even sell ad space. (Personally, I'd like them ...Read More
In preparation for an upcoming panel discussion for the Confluence Northnetwork, and as I prepare for the Tweetup Twestival in Indianapolis (Twindianapolis?), I've been reviewing some of the different Twitter apps out there. I found five apps that can help ...Read More
J.R. Cohen, operations manager for CoffeeGroundz Cafe (@CoffeeGroundz) in Houston, TX, used Twitter to nearly double his clientele, by using it to take advance orders from customers, thus flying in the face of everyone who has ever said Twitter can't ...Read More
LinkedIn is cracking down on LinkedIn connection sluts – LinkedIn open networkers (LIONs) – who have thousands and thousands of connections on the site. LinkedIn's official policy is that you can only connect to people you know. A story in CIO magazine mentions ...Read More
My friend Kyle Lacy wrote a post on Tuesday, So You Have 500+ on LinkedIn? So What? We have been through the friend train on Myspace. We have been through the obsessive adding of people trying to get the biggest friend ...Read More
Erik Deckers is a 14-year marketing and PR veteran, specializing in the written word. He has written everything from marketing copy to web copy to newspapers to radio and stage plays. He even collects examples of long copy sales letters, because he's weird that way.
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