One of the biggest challenges as you expand your online influence is how to manage your attention. If you follow people back on Twitter, for example, pretty soon you’re trying to drink from a firehose. ifttt to the rescue! In this post I show how to auto-curate Twitter lists of a) people who engage...
Just when you think you’ve finally got a handle on social media strategy… Noise to Signal Cartoon
My Klout score dropped 13 points yesterday! Why? Because when I decided to connect the new Facebook page of my fledgling business, Klout took it upon itself to switch me from an “individual influencer” to a “brand influencer”, replacing my substantial personal Facebook activity with my nearly non-existent Facebook page activity. Maybe it told...
Maybe I’m just lazy. Maybe I’m overly ambitious. Maybe a little bit of both. All I know is… blogging as much as I would like to is a freakin’ lot of work! I do write original stuff sometimes – and some pretty good stuff at that, I think. I’m also a decent curator of...
I’m not {gonna,going to} bash Klout… plenty of others have done that already, and besides, I {kinda,kind of} like getting free stuff, so, more power to them! I just want to have fun with them. A few weeks ago, I did a post about Wikipedia’s fundraising ads, entitled Jimmy Wales, Serial Killer?, which got...
It’s 9am on my birthday, and already, 65 people have posted birthday wishes on my Facebook wall. Several more have Skyped me. Sure, it’s just a simple act – some might argue it’s only slightly more social than a poke, but I disagree. Frankly, I think this is really what the social web is...
In the “so bizarre it has to be true” news… Benito Apolinar, 36, was arrested this week after fighting with his wife of 15 years, from whom he had recently separated. He had posted an update on Facebook about the anniversary of his mother’s death and became angry when he noticed his wife had...
I don’t think Chevy quite knew what they were in for when they picked Nan Palmero, Mike D. Merrill and me for this Mancation promo. Apparently, we quite outdid ourselves not only in the creative department, but also the subsequent marketing/campaigning for the contest to win a second mancation. From the Chevy Texas blog:...
For some inexplicable reason, my blog is producing malware errors in Google Chrome, saying that my site contains code from softwarecode.ru: The problem occurs: Only in Chrome – Firefox and IE are fine. Only on single posts, not the home page, categories, or pages (that I’ve seen). Intermittently – fairly consistently on certain...
Really, I’m not suggesting you do this…it’s for educational purposes so you can recognize it when you see it. Still funny. via yasrsly
