A litmus test for social media experts

So I was thinking ealier today about writing something on how to gauge the true strength and qualifications of a social media expert. However, my inspiration for this post stemmed from reading Geoff Livingston’s blog posts on social media carpetbagging and tell-tale signs that you have a strong social media consultant and after further reading [...]

SEO and Twitter just don’t mix.

Earlier today I received a tweet in my timeline from Adrian Chan who posed an interesting thought. If Twitter went the way of Google and decided to find a way to optimize tweets so that they could be found easier, how would we SEO them?
Well I think that’s a wrong way for Twitter to go [...]

The Attack on Conversation: a big mea culpa?

We’ve all been guilty of it…putting our foot in our mouth and saying something either over the air or online that we regret and can’t take back. I know I have, but when it comes to negativity or praise for our brand or company, why are people attacking how it’s handled? Over the past few [...]

Just who are spammers trying to kid on Twitter?

If you’ve become quite popular on Twitter or happen to have a rather large gathering of people, then you might know the recent trend of people spoofing your name. A perfect example is what happened to Forrester Research Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang. A very popular Twitterer, Jeremiah has amassed a following of over 30,000 people [...]