The hashtags on Twitter can serve many purposes. Certainly, they help people filter for current topics of interest. It should be no surprise that #JobsSpeech is very popular today given President Obama’s speech earlier. Other hashtags can be just for entertainment/fun value. Some of these allow people to share interesting thoughts and experiences under a common theme. For example, [...]
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#PleasantSurprises of your Lives
Posted in social media, society, tagged #PleasantSurprises, positive attitude, twitter on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How Many Persona’s Are You?
Posted in People, social media, tagged blog, Facebook, Foursquare, Linkedin, persona, social media, twitter, Xbox on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How many personalities do you have? Or a more appropriate question is how many persona’s are you? Since we were little kids, we learned to project different persona’s depending on the situation, environment or the company around us. I know I certainly projected myself differently in church than I did around my jock friends in [...]
Building Social Media Rapport with Brand Enthusiasts
Posted in Digital Marketing, social media, tagged advertising, Brand, Ford, Lexus, Macy's, marketing, Nordstrom, social media, twitter on August 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Surveys have shown that around 74% of people believe recommendations from friends or acquaintances, while only about 14% believe in brand advertisement claims. Having credible people be your brand enthusiast can be extremely powerful, especially when communicated in an authentic manner — as part of a person’s normal conversation. Let me use my friend, Kendall [...]
@Comcastcares Extends World Class Customer Service to Social Media
Posted in social media, tagged best practices, comcast, comcastbill, comcastbonnie, comcastcares, customer service, social media, twitter on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meet @comcastcares, the Twitter profile for Frank Eliason, arguably the most famous customer service manager in the US. Frank is the Director of Digital Care for Comcast. When thinking about best practices being developed for customer care on Twitter, Comcast, and perhaps Dell, come to mind. These brands have taken a very proactive approach to [...]
Watching Heroes with Twitter’s #Heroes Redefines Interactive TV
Posted in Digital Marketing, social media, tagged Brea Grant, brecklin meyer, episode of Heroes, Greg Grunberg, Heroes, Heroes fans, Hiro, Interactive television, Seth Godin, seth green, social media and television, Sylar, twitter on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Greg Grunberg, a trailblazer of sorts in integrating social media ever closer with a television show. Oh yeah, he’s also an actor who play Matt Parkman in the popular television series Heroes. He plays a policeman who can read and influence people’s thoughts. One of the scarier powers, I think. Greg tweets avidly on Twitter, with [...]
Social Media For Social Good For One Home Many Hopes
Posted in social media, society, tagged One Home Many Hopes, Race to $20K, social change, social media, Social Media for Social Change, twitter, Vanessa Leong on October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Meet Vanessa Leong. She is spearheading the social media fund-raising element for One Home Many Hopes. This is an organization that working to improve the lives of orphaned girls in Mtwapa, Kenya. ”Mudzini Kwetu” uses education and family support as ways to lift these children out of cyclical poverty. Today, there are 35 parentless girls [...]
Obama, The Most Popular Twitter
Posted in Politics, tagged Barack Obama, John McCain, John McCain on Twitter, Obama most popular on Twitter, obama on twitter, politics on social media, Politics on the internet, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer.com, twitter on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Barack Obama, the most followed person in the world — on Twitter. As of today, the US presidential candidate has 103,234 followers. Despite his tremendous popularity, Obama’s campaign doesn’t use the service very aggressively with only 236 updates (tweets). Most of his updates have been notifications of where Obama is speaking and a link [...]
Poll Results from Final 2008 Presidential Debate
Posted in Politics, tagged 2008 presidential debate poll results, Barack Obama, debate poll results, debate results, John McCain, mccain on twitter, obama on twitter, Obama vs McCain, political campaign on twitter, poll results, poll results from the final presidential debate, results from debate, Results from presidential debate, twitter, who won the presidential debate on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MeetKendall and MeetJohnSong have conducted a poll following each of the three 2008 presidential debates, as well as the lone vice presidential debate. Both of us are very engaged in these elections, with one supporting Senator MCain and the other supporting Senator Obama. Yet, our polls consistently favored the Democratic candidates: First Presidential debate: Obama [...]
Twitter For Effective Executive Communication
Posted in business, management, social media, tagged CEO blog, company communication, executive communication, micro blog, social media, twitter on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Social media applications are changing the way we communicate. We expose ourselves with a portfolio of personal data to be understood, appreciated and unique. Communication is now open, collaborative. In the corporate world, however, very few companies consider how to use social media applications and its concepts for internal communication. Sure, marketers and thought-leaders [...]
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