Thanks so much to Chicagonista and GM for honoring me as one of the top women in Chicago social media at Sushi Samba on July 22. That’s me with Nicole Simond, MJ Tam, Nancy Loo and Sarah Evans. Image by Eulalio Fabie de Silva of Lahleyoo. View Layleyoo’s Chevy Chicag0nista Social Media Soiree album. After speaking…
A reader writes . . . My questions are about boundary issues with Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs. As a therapist, I want to be current with social media, yet I am aware of the need for appropriate boundaries with my clients. Currently, my Facebook contains only professional information and a few events. I’m very…
Here’s a tool that measure sentiment on twitter. For wiredprworks . . . . 64% positive 33% neutral overall 3% negative Is that good? Is it better to be controversial? What I like about Twendz, a twitter tool to explore conversation and measure sentiment . . . Fast or slow – you set the…
Twitter transcript . . . . wiredprworks: if you’re following me and I’m not following you, please send me a message @wiredprworks-trying to close the following/followers gap DaveTaylor: @wiredprworks but *why* are you trying to close that gap? wiredprworks: @DaveTaylor – don’t want to miss out any great folks – speaking of great people hope…
On Thursday, May 28 Social Media Club Chicago showed up to celebrate crowdSPRING’s first anniversary. For the second month in a row Ramon DeLeon, also known as @dpzramon on twitter.com, delivered the Domino’s pizza. This time, he also brought his camera guy, Andres De Leon – @needgraphics on twitter.com. Last month Ramon and Andres posted…
On a quest to find out what’s working right now with public relations and social media, we’re contacting companies we’d like to know more about. First up is Grasshopper. Earlier this month, we published “Dissecting Grasshopper.com’s Chocolate Delivery to 5,000 Influentials.” Here’s a clip: 25,000 grasshoppers landed in 5,000 influential places this week, including here…
“You were one of the first people on twitter,” a friend said as they introduced me to someone new at a party over the Memorial Day weekend. I replied: “Well not really.” “Yes, you were.” So, I looked it up. The date I set up my twitter account: Friday March 16 2007 Want to see…
Wondering what it’s like to go to a Social Media Club Chicago event? Watch this 126 second video to find out. Thanks to Big Teeth Productions for producing the video and for writing this event recap post. smc chicago april the teeth were there . . . were you? Want more information about SMC Chicago?…
25,000 grasshoppers landed in 5,000 influential places this week, including here at Wired PR Works. Thanks to grasshopper.com for the crunchy critters and the all-around PR success story example that we’re dissecting here today. Where was/is the press release? Did they need one? No, but a follow up with results would the one I’d like…
25,000 grasshoppers landed in 5,000 influential places this week, including here at Wired PR Works. Thanks to grasshopper.com for the crunchy critters and the all-around PR success story example that we’re dissecting here today. Where was/is the press release? Did they need one? No, but a follow up with results would the one I’d like…
Let’s take inventory, okay? Get out a sheet of paper. Make three columns. Label one “group,” a second “connected” and the third “disconnected.” Connected means plugged in online via twitter, Facebook and Linked, etc. Disconnected means analog or email only. Now, list all of your groups in three categories: business, social and peripheral. In each…
Prelude written on May 1, originally titled “SOBCon09 takeaways” Reader One: Uh, wait a minute – doesn’t SOBCon09 start today? Me: Yep, it does. Reader Two: Then, uh, what’s up with this post called “SOBCon09 takeaways”? Reader Three: How can you takeaway before you even get start? Reader Four: Wait – isn’t that completely premature?…
Lightly edited notes from SOBcon09 – presentation by The Image Studios by founder, Kali Evans-Raoul. The importance of presence – so clients can be seen, heard and understood. Using yourself to grow your business. Performance – 10% Image – 60% Exposure – 30% Performance only gets you into the game, the speed of information transfer…
Presentation notes by David Bullock on his Barack 2.0 project with Brent Leary. In June 2008, they decided to start tracking Barack Obama on social media. They used Snag-it to capture to 1100 artifacts from the campaign. Then, they took the ideas and put them on the blog – all time and date stamped…
I’m at SOBCon taking and sharing notes from presentations. Here’s the first from Chris Brogan and Julien Smith who talked about their new book, Trust Agents Notes lightly edited. Make your own game – stop playing by other people’s rules Be inventing your own. Constantly. Examples: Perez Hilton and Tim Ferriss – lifestyle designer Invent…
It’s almost unbelievable – only 81 out of the Fortune 500 companies have public-facing corporate blogs. Is it me or does 16% sound impossibly low? This stat is a key finding of a new research study, “The Fortune 500 and Blogging: Slow and Steady” conducted by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research…
Jan Brady: Well, all day long at school I hear how great Marcia is at this or how wonderful Marcia did that! Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! To paraphrase Jan Brady of The Brady Bunch . . . Well, all day long on twitter I hear how great Social is at this or how wonderful Social did…
Prelude: Soon I’ll be presenting a program to computer consultants about how to use the power of social networking to build your brand and strengthen client relationships. To illustrate how to add entertainment value to build your brand and strengthen client relationships, in this post we’ll compare social networking and marketing to the movie Monsters…
A reader writes . . . I’m working on a proposal for PR work to a potential new client, and was wondering how you are incorporating social media tools into your proposals. Do you set up a separate rate structure re strategy and implementation for creating a buzz on blogs, Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, etc.,…
While these tips were written specifically for those ages 44-63 to appear on Toby Bloomberg’s Diva Marketing blog, there is something in here for everyone. Toby asked each of her guests, Des Walsh, Carlos Hernandez and Barbara Rozgonyi [me!] to submit social media tips as a companion to our appearance on her BlogTalk Radio show,…
Blowing off boomers as social media no-shows? Take a look at these statistics and then listen in to: Boomers Step Into Social Media, hosted by Toby Bloomberg with guests, Des Walsh, Barbara Rozgonyi [me!] and Carlos Hernandez Twitter Traffic Spiked by 45-54 year olds The majority of Twitter’s roughly 10 million unique Web site visitors…
Polarity has it’s place. It grounds both ends. Such is the case with social media. Where are you on the sliding social media marketing scale? Which seat would sit in on this fictitious social media panel? Puritan Moderate Liberal Aggressor Twitter DMs N-E-V-E-R Accepting Send them over Is there any other way? Social Media…
“I can see you’re an open networker,” someone told me last week. “You make it easy to reach you via phone and email.” Yes, that’s true and if you’re looking, look no further: my email is connect[at]corywestmedia.com and you can call or text me at 630.207.7530. Some of you reading this are shaking in your…
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For the 241 people who registered interest in attending SMC Chicago’s March event, business to business and social media is a hot topic. It all comes down to listening. But, first you have to have the tools to tune in. And, you have to go where your people are, which is most likely one or…
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