It’s not you…it’s me.
In 2007, I was introduced to social media at Podcamp Toronto. I happened upon a group of amazing people, many of whom I’m happy to call good friends today. What they were doing that weekend was remarkable. They were figuring out new ways to communicate, collaborate, do business, and build communities. They [...]
Posts under ‘social media’
Am I Breaking Up with Social Media?
How to Succeed in Social Media
I had a little conversation on Twitter with @SonnyGill last night. Sonny and I don’t chat that often, but we do float around in and out of each others’ radar sometimes. Last night we got to talking about our names. You see, Sonny confessed on his blog that “Sonny” is not his real name. I [...]
Creating Spaces
I’ve been thinking about spaces a lot.
There are many different ways we create spaces. There’s making emotional space, for your friends, your family, or that special someone. There’s physical space, as in the space you create for your home or your working environment. There’s the relationship between space and time, where you need to carve [...]
Return on Eyeballs: The new ROI
I’m honoured to have been asked to be part of a proposed panel for this year’s South By Southwest 2010 conference, called “Prove It! Exploring Social Media ROI for Business”. I’m even more honoured to be sitting on the proposed panel with some of the people I admire most in the world of new media: [...]
Amazing
You know what’s amazing?
That even though I live in one of the coldest, snowiest Capital cities in the world, I can sit by the edge of my 80 degree pool, with birds chirping, water glistening, in the sunblock scented air on a hot summer day, in my own backyard, and type this to you. [...]
Social Media – Ur Doin' it Wrong
I see that IZEA is has gotten into the sponsored tweets biz. I see that Mashable has some mixed feelings about it.
This is not going to be a post about whether the business ventures that Ted Murphy and his gang are getting into are right or wrong. It’s not going to be a post about [...]
A Five Minute Lesson on Labels and Fame
Lots of people are talking about relationships these days. There are plenty of examples of fresh, new thinking about how we build, nurture and maintain relationships. We have more tools than ever before at our disposal to help us connect, communicate and grow as humans. Yet we are still intent on placing labels on everything, [...]
The Grand Experiment of Social Media
On Thursday afternoon I had the great pleasure of attending a talk with Malcolm Gladwell at the National Arts Centre here in Ottawa. It done in a Q and A format and hosted by local journalist Mark Sutcliffe. It was an awe inspiring 90 minutes, to say the least. We laughed, we thought, we even [...]
Connecting in the Offline World
There’s an unusual trend happening in my life right now, in terms of how I’m connecting with people. I’m doing a lot of “offline” stuff. Perhaps it’s just the nature of my schedule of late, perhaps it’s intentional, perhaps it’s fate…but I am finding some great richness in the interactions I’m having with the non-geeks [...]
2 Myths About Mainstream Media
Wow – people are really all a-buzz about mainstream media’s latest foray into the world of social media, eh? I’m seeing lots of different viewpoints and some great conversations. In fact, I’d say that social media is really showing it’s stuff right now – the community is out in full force, in one way or [...]
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