Archives for “Social Media”

social media ROI

Posted by on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:10 am. Comments are off.

Tweet “There are basically only three things the boss cares about: how much money did we make? How much money did we save? Are our customers happy? Social media hits the last one really hard – and this is the one you should seek to quantify, however you can.” – Erin Flis

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fantasy valuations – if you can’t sell at a profit…

Posted by on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 1:12 pm. Comments are off.

Tweet You can’t sell at a profit and make it up in volume. This is just business-common-sense. And this matters because as employees of realistic corporations that are required by reality to sustain themselves, we get frustrated keeping up with the Kardashians. Even the Joneses aren’t keeping up with the Joneses. It’s a scam dude. [...]

Filed under Media, Social Media, Sociology.

audience notes on social media presentation

Posted by on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 10:57 am. Comments are off.

Tweet Notes taken by Rachel at a recent social media presentation I gave. She stated that she wrote down the things the audience responded to and expressed an interest in. I read that as “what they care about.” So here is the list: Linkedin—get on it if you are in business Have a homebase—blog or SME on subject [...]

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Notes on Social Objects

Posted by on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 2:46 pm. Comments are off.

Tweet If you haven’t read the story of the Microsoft Blue Monster, and Hugh’s thoughts on social objects, I highly recommend it. The full blue monster story is here on Hugh’s blog. I was just rereading it for an upcoming talk that discusses Social Objects. And of course I would be remiss if I did [...]

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Ford Fiesta Movement Mission 4 film from Team Houston

Posted by on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 5:59 am. Comments are off.

Tweet From the description on youtube: zenfilm — June 09, 2010 — The Ford Fiesta Movement Mission 4 film from Team Houston “Pause” presents an unusual twist on romance with sci-fi/fantasy overtones. Pause was filmed in one day by the Zenfilm creative team and features the sights and sounds of America’s 4th largest city set to the music [...]

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faulty redundant asynchronous communication is efficient

Posted by on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 6:11 pm. 2 Comments.

Tweet I found myself with 60 relevant business emails in my inbox last Wednesday, the morning before I flew out on a business trip, and I jumped over to twitter to find out if anything important was going on. Baroo? Why did my brain tell me to do that? Four things about twitter communication of [...]

Filed under Social Media, Social Software, Sociology.

SchipulCon in two days – Oct 45, 16, 2009 at the Houston Zoo

Posted by on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:34 am. Comments are off.

Tweet What started in 2007 as the Tendenci User Conference, was canceled in 2008 due to a very unwelcome hurricane, has now morphed into SchipulCon 2009. Planned by @MagsMac, the conference has a great lineup of speakers including Deirdre Breakenridge, the author of PR 2.0. The full SchipulCon 2009 Agenda is posted on the site. [...]

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Technology and Crisis Communication Panel at SXSW. Vote?

Posted by on Monday, August 31, 2009 at 3:08 pm. 1 Comment.

Tweet SHORT VERSION: Please vote for my panel at SXSW DON’T PANIC – The Geek’s Guide to the Next Big Crisis LONG VERSION: A little more than four years ago I wrote my first blog post. It was about the need for a form of Emergency RSS. We can share celebrity gossip headlines through feed [...]

Filed under Crisis Communication, Emergency Response, Nonprofit and Technology, Open Source, Social Media, Social Software.

Uninstall Facebook Applications Internationally Day (UFAID) September 1 2009

Posted by on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 11:08 am. 7 Comments.

Tweet I am a fan of Facebook. I enjoy using it and it has brought me closer to a lot of awesome people. We are even approaching 1000 people on our Facebook Fan Page! But I can’t handle Facebook’s lack of respect for our privacy. The fact that it shows me “dating website” advertisements (I’m [...]

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Tribal Citizenship Behavior

Posted by on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:29 am. Comments are off.

Tweet When a crisis occurs, like a hurricane hits your city or the country freaks out about the swine flu, part of a leaders job is to protect the tribe. To do that, the people have to be prepared. The first priority must then be to make sure every member of the tribe is prepared [...]

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Mom2Summit Feb 19-21 2009 in Houston Texas

Posted by on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 2:41 pm. 2 Comments.

Tweet So all of this time I have actually liked Gwen Bell. And THEN I find out her panel is at the exact same time as my panel at the Mom2Summit in Houston Texas! Check the Saturday morning agenda. Oh ya, Gwen’s treachery is all there in black and white. Same bat time, competing bat [...]

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Personal brands, being human, can not truly be consistent.

Posted by on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 12:48 pm. 1 Comment.

Tweet Reading Gwen’s post Leave it at the Alter about personal brands got me thinking. Perhaps our online personal brands are really pseudonyms for the Umbrella Corporation? A protective wrapper than includes a “a highly-trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and para-military operations” division. And one sub-corp that makes band aids for the kids [...]

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Formation of New American Group Influencers

Posted by on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:01 am. Comments are off.

Tweet New groups are being formed throughout the country, and nobody has noticed. These emergent groups are zero to three years old. And the organizers are not the usual suspects. If there is a connection to urban tribes it is the connecting of existing urban tribes. We meet our new friends, talking to others we [...]

Filed under Art Community in Houston, Economics, Leadership, Pop Culture, Social Media, Social Software.

2008 Sarasota International Design Summit

Posted by on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm. Comments are off.

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Erin Blatzer Rocks Social Media for HMNS

Posted by on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 7:55 am. Comments are off.

Tweet So many people! Originally uploaded by erinblatzer Congrats to @erinblatzer and @laanba and everyone else with Assignment Houston who arranged the HMNS photo shoot. Talk about a great example of an arts institution engaging with social media in a positive way. Check out the Houston Museum of Natural Science group on Flickr for more.

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What Social Media Means for B2B Marketers

Posted by on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 1:40 pm. 2 Comments.

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Commotion – something to think about

Posted by on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:48 pm. Comments are off.

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Careful with the word “research” Mr. Tabin

Posted by on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 11:56 am. 8 Comments.

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Social Media for Non Profits Presentation

Posted by on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 2:55 pm. Comments are off.

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Got Social Media Conference – 2 More Days!

Posted by on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 9:15 am. Comments are off.

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@deneyterrio’s new Social Media Video

Posted by on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 4:57 pm. Comments are off.

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Two Examples of Micro Fundraising Today

Posted by on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 4:40 pm. 3 Comments.

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The Profit of Diversity and The Wisdom of Crowds

Posted by on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11:11 am. Comments are off.

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Shout out to Chron.com for Progressive Blog Link Outs!

Posted by on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 3:35 pm. Comments are off.

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Stretching Out of my Comfort Zone on Social Media Programs

Posted by on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 12:21 pm. 6 Comments.

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