June 30 is Mashable’s Social Media Day. Over 516 cities around the world will be celebrating. I’ll be at the Social Media Day Chicago event. Where will you be celebrating? Find your city’s Social Media Day. “We’re thrilled to celebrate Mashable’s third annual Social Media Day! We launched the event […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
13 posts
While the total number of blogs is going up, a recent study says the number of businesses who blog is going down. Why is that? Back in June 2006, when I started blogging, there was no competition from other social media channels. Today, the world’s a different place. Competing for […]
Want to attend TechWeek, but don’t have the time or a ticket? Now you can follow TechWeek live online or watch it right here. Check out the TechWeek schedule here, and follow the #techweekchi conversation here. Disclosure: Thanks to TechWeek for the complimentary TechWeek speaker pass. If you’re at TechWeek, […]
Towering over the other kids at private screening of Pixar’s new movie, Brave, my 17 year old 6’1 1/4″son is still a kid who loves Pixar movies. So does our entire family of five. When a new Pixar movie comes out, we do the best we can to see it […]
You spend hours and hours and hours searching for content to post, retweet and share with your twitter followers. But, how do you know who’s really reading it? About a month ago I started using Buffer, an app that schedules posts across a span of networks and reports the results […]
It’s that time of year when Chambers of Commerce distribute their community guides. Thanks to Highland Park Chamber of Commerce and Bohringer Creative, I’m featured in an interview in the Highland Park Community Guide, along with several chamber members. I enjoyed working with Virginia Anzelmo Glasner, Chamber of Commerce Executive […]
Everyone’s interested in privacy, but perhaps no one takes it more seriously than privacy professionals, especially those in the banking, insurance and financial service industries. Mix in social media, and marketing, and the conversation gets very interesting. That’s what I found as I prepared a speech, slideshow and presentation guide […]
On June 12, Cision released a list of the top 50 marketing and PR blogs. I didn’t expect to come in at number 31. While I’m honored to be included, I’m also intrigued by the overall rankings. Congrats to Chicago author and PR woman extraordinaire, Gini Dietrich, of Spin Sucks. […]
“So it turns out if you want to find out what the future looks like, you should be asking women. And just before you think that means you should be asking 18-year-old women, it actually turns out the majority of technology users are women in their 40s, 50s and 60s. […]
Released on June 12, Agility is the name of PR Newswire’s new integrated media monitoring and targeting platform. According to the release, in addition to traditional list development, press release distribution, and monitoring, the platform allows users to monitor social media conversations in real-time, and then engage immediately. PR pros who […]
English