How a DM via Twitter to a Blog with a Link to Facebook Got Me My Job

I’ve told a few people how I got my position here at Waggener Edstrom but I haven’t *blogged* it yet. But it’s a highly relevant story and fits into the broader themes I cover here of how social media is changing the way we work. Amybeth Hale (@researchgoddess) is a … Continue reading

Twitter is the Internets Water Cooler

Image via Wikipedia You can’t monitor the whole Internet. Nobody can, not even Google. So what do you do? It’s obvious that you can’t ignore it? You need to be monitoring something. “But I don’t have budget for fancy monitoring tools.” You don’t need any budget. There are dozens of … Continue reading

Top 10 Blog Posts [May 2009] FriendFeed Steals the Show

Peter Kim has been doing a monthly top post recap for a while now. I like this approach and decided to steal this idea and remix it a little. He does it for convenience if anyone missed any of his posts. I like it for different reasons. It’s a simple … Continue reading

How to Win the Real-Time Web Publishing Battle

Image by Army.mil via Flickr As the Web moves into hyper-drive the ability for organizations to turn out high quality content has never been more important. From my own experience as well as what I’ve seen others publish the life span of link shared on Twitter is 5 minutes. After … Continue reading