What’s Next Now

A Very Successful Application of Social Media Tools

I came across this news article from South Africa while reviewing a Tweetscan email I received this morning: Social media to rescue Jail4Bail campaign?. “With about two weeks left in the campaign, the funds were about half way to target. And that is when social media, represented by Rafiq Phillips , stepped in. Phillips is what can best [...]

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Stumblers Upon, I Have a Social Media Challenge for You!

About half this blog’s first week traffic has come from folks hitting me up from StumbleUpon.  Thanks folks!  Now, here’s my challenge for everyone, but particularly for you Stumblers. What’s the Best Concise Way to Explain the Value of Social Media to My Audience? One niche this blog is aimed at is very challenging.  I really want [...]

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Communications Mode Shift: The Age of Permasation?

Part of my job here is to convince you that we are at the start of a fundamental shift in the way we all communicate with each other. In launching this site, I’m finally embracing a part of me that I have too often suppressed, or that has required my being dragged kicking and screaming [...]

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Ten Great Lists for the Social Media Aware

I’ve noticed a trend in blog post titles.  It seems the world of Social Media Practitioners is in love with lists.  Heck, I’m in love with lists!  One of the tools I use to help me glean what’s next now is the gigantic, ever-changing popularity list at popurls.  As I write this, four of the [...]

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Why Twitter? Three Examples

It wasn’t all that long ago, perhaps five months or so, that Twitter came into my life.  I had heard it mentioned a couple of times in passing conversation, but I hadn’t paid much attention.  It sounded like generation-Y stuff, not like something I might be interested in.  Then, in a Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce [...]

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