Challenge: Differentiating You and What You Do Solution: Promote ALL of YOU, including your social network Read: 33 Ways to Get Social Networking to Work for You Time: < 3 minutes to read Action: Choose top 2 or 3 to implement Inspiration: Chris Brogan’s post “Will Companies Value Your Personal […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
Two years. Three platforms. 399 posts. Today I’m celebrating my second anniversary as a blogger. For some reason, I thought my anniversary date was 06.06.06. But, it’s today: 06.02.06. Actually, I wrote my first blog post – ever – in the fall of September 2004. I chose something silly to […]
I’m a member. You’re probably not. So, I can’t share all the details with you about what I learned at The System Club’s annual members-only meeting. But, I can share my review and takeaways and you can listen to The System Seminar Internet Marketing interviews for free [affiliate link]. Start […]
It happens. Sometimes I can be overly friendly. I love meeting people and finding out what they do. Reality hit me recently in the face at a conference lunch: I don’t need to know everybody and they don’t need to know me. Here’s how it happened . . . A […]
Your community is a set of concentric circles, beginning with your closet relationships and expanding out as far as your would like to reach. In plumbing the depths of my experiences archive, I remembered this presentation I created two years ago. Dual cast to a live audience in the room […]
When you’re looking for a story to tell about twitter, you can use this one – at least that’s what I’m going to tell my friend I’m having lunch with tomorrow. Because she’s writing a book about networking, she needs stories. So far, no one’s contributed one about twitter – […]
I know, I know. I left out a c – the same letter that was left out of a word in a message that reads: “take advantage of all the faulty interviews while they’re still up” How about you – would you listen to faulty interviews or faculty interviews? While […]
have to admit I’ve been confused more than a few times the past few days about all the “Indy” talk that’s going around.And not just on Twitter, in emails from family, conversations with friends and at events like the showing of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” last weekend […]
No matter what you’re trying to do and where you’re trying to go, it’s always easier, faster and more direct if you have a plan. Today, I’m sharing our creative project planner outline with you. CoryWest Media, LLC Creative Project Planner Primary Purpose Secondary Purpose Target Audience(s) Route to Communication […]
The last time I tried this, no one showed up. After sending out hundred of postcards and press releases about a “how to blog workshop” in March, the date came and went and nobody came. Thanks to Kathy Doyle and The Academy for Non-Profit Excellence, I got assigned to create […]