On April 18-19, GSMI’s Social Media Strategies Summit makes it to my backyard here in Chicago! I’m completely jazzed about this… I’ve keynoted at 2 previous GSMI conferences, and this time, I get to run a track session. Which I think is fantastic because I’ve found the quality of the tracks at GSMI’s conferences to [...]
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Join Me! Social Media Strategies Summit 4/18-19
March 16, 2012
Social Skills vs. Social Media
February 17, 2012
Twice now in the past few months, I’ve come across science that suggests that social media is bad for developing brains. Specifically, researchers including Sherry Turkle of MIT, who I’ve referenced before because she’s been studying this phenomenon since the 1970s and knows her stuff, are finding the following: The connectivity made possible by interactive [...]
The Social Media Revolution: It’s about Control
February 13, 2012
There’s a pretty big revolution going on around us these days, and it’s not about technology. It’s about control. As generally happens in human history, technology is the catalyst, but not the cause. The technology catalyzing this revolution is social media. But the cause is the same cause that drives every revolution: a group of [...]
The End of Introversion?
February 7, 2012
On social media, you can connect with a large number of people while remaining snuggly in your personal, little cocoon. You don’t have to even engage with your network much, let alone connect with them emotionally. And yet, from that emotionally-detached cocoon, you can engage with many, many people at once and leave them all [...]
The Dark Side of Social Media: Interpersonal Ineptitude
January 20, 2012
What happens when a tech savvy, Gen X communication expert talks with a Luddite Boomer communication expert about social media and the future of the “business relationships”? Awesome insights happen, that’s what. Especially about the dark side of social media. And good news: I recorded everything for you. Click here to listen. Ed Ruda, industrial [...]
Using Online Information in Real World Conversation
January 15, 2012
In the past, meeting someone meant talking to a person with whom you had no idea if you shared any common interests. You’d break the ice and go from there. And loosely speaking, extroverts were people who had an easy time with this while introverts struggled. With LinkedIn and social media, all that is changing. [...]
LinkedIn Drives More B2B Leads
December 9, 2011
Turns out, LinkedIn drives more B2B leads than any of the other major social platforms (blogging, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube). In fact, LinkedIn drives twice as many leads as Twitter, (despite Twitter being a bit more popular) and kicks Facebook’s butt. (And you thought LinkedIn was just for résumés!) Click here for Media Bistro’s article, [...]
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