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A Writer’s Guide to Interactivity and Privacy
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Who is Your Writing Mentor and Why?
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Carrot or Stick — What’s Your Reward for Writing?
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The Responsibility of Writing
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The Physical, Mental and Spiritual of Writing
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Hard and Fast Rules?
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An Infinite Number of Monkeys
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‘Milk’ing the Cow and Writer’s Block
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A Writer’s Guide to Interactivity and Privacy
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A Writer’s Guide to Interactivity and Privacy
Posted on July 27, 2010 | 8 CommentsShare This week, I performed an exercise in social media interactivity and privacy that I thought might help you. I took the time to divide better than 750 people who are my “friends” on Facebook into categories of access by creating three lists — gold,... -
Italian Food and the Social Media Connection
Posted on April 5, 2010 | 4 CommentsShare As much of a fan that I am of social media connecting one another, I’m a bigger fan of the right human connection. I also believe one leads to the other. For example, there’s a restaurant I frequent in Garmisch called La Baita. It’s... -
The Most Vulgar Place in Social Media is …
Posted on April 2, 2010 | 4 CommentsShare Vulgarities are spit like snake venom. Somewhere in between comes a fair share of language many would classify as hate speech. There’s misogyny. There’s making fun of fat guys, fat girls, old people, young people and all of it’s done without the least bit... -
Poor Social Media Engagement Practices Send Fans Running
Posted on April 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsShare I’ve begun trimming fan pages on Facebook. I’m doing this because there are plenty of fan pages that are putting out news that I’m simply not interested in, though I do have an interest in the product, service or organization that is running the... -
21 Karat Fatback – How social media can monetize
Posted on November 17, 2009 | 1 CommentShare And this is strictly a personal, anecdotal example. I sat at my desk today and I wanted to hear a tune. I typed “funk” into YouTube. I got a link to Jeffrey Osborne’s old band, LTD, and “Back in Love Again.” I listen to... -
Something Social Media Can’t Fix – bouncing reporters
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsShare From Time.com comes a great example of the need for a change in paradigm vice delivery methods of public communications: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1894646,00.html And you get a free Quatto quote, too! “That’s a question for the White House, and I understand that they may be bouncing... -
The problem with GOV transparency is that it's not
Posted on April 20, 2009 | No CommentsShare The problem with transparency is that it’s not. It never is. “Transparency” is yet another buzz word to put those affected by changing processes at ease. When some company or governmental entity wants to say upcoming changes to process, policy, rules or procedures will... -
Newsweek: Soldier's new weapon — an iPod?
Posted on April 20, 2009 | No CommentsShare Since I own an iPod touch, this article interested me. I think it also advances the thought of social media/now media to a new level. If we issued soldiers across the spectrum iPods, does that mean we can instantly deliver to them news, alerts,... -
Article: 'Terminology Matters: Why 'Social Media' Sucks'
Posted on April 18, 2009 | No CommentsShare Some lessons on selling social media, now media or whatever you want to call the next generation of distribution channels for information: http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=136016 -
Man, This is Genius …
Posted on April 17, 2009 | No CommentsShare Disclaimer: I’ve known this guy for a while, and he’s one of the big-brained people in the Air Force. Very smart. And this struck a chord for me today, cutting through what social media’s bedrock claim to fame emphasizes: What is meaningful about social...