Connecting the dots of life and business

Twitter has been referenced as a waste of time, pithy non-sense and a time suck.  However, it’s best description for my use is drinking from a fire hose.  There are so many people typing so much information and even with just 140 characters it can be hard to manage.  I’ve written before about my struggles [...]

Continental Flight 1404 passenger Mike Wilson (@2drinksbehind) used Twitter to communicate first-hand news of last night’s plane crash. I took screen shots of his tweets to show what Twitter can do for immediate access to information. I broke them down into the summary (shown below), the most recent and all of Mike’s related tweets. It’s [...]

Earlier today, I presented the Do’s And Don’ts of Social Media to the Louisville chapter of the American Marketing Association. The crowd was around 40-50 (I think) and I appreciate their attentiveness and solid questions at the end. Amazingly, they already (3 hours later) sent me the survey results with comments. I appreciate the positive [...]

Shawn Morton and I are hosting a tweetup here in Louisville for area folks this Thursday. Our agenda is simple, there are great people locally who obviously love Twitter and other new media tools and we think we should get together! We know there are lots of fun meetups, so we asked our friends at [...]

Last week’s Twitter love-fest reminded me of a post I’ve wanted to finish for some time. After Blog World, I came back feeling energized and excited about social media and its future as an industry. Although still young, a conference like Blog World shed light on what COULD be a promising future. Sure, there were [...]

A common term used in the church is having a “mountain top experience” where a person or group strengthens their faith during a concentrated period. Yesterday’s Twitter “love-fest” had a similar feeling, where many people who commented on Jeremiah’s post, received several new Twitter friends. I personally received over thirty and our web show @dailyidea [...]