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Health Care Reform – A Sign Of Maturity

by Global Patriot on 08/10/2009 18:47 0 comments , 117 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging
There are few subjects more complicated than what to do about America’s health care.  Those who say the status quo works perfect are, without question, individuals who have: 1) Very good health plans 2) No need to see a doctor 3) The money to pay for any illness. For those who don’t fit into one of [...]
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Give Back to Boost Your Bottom Line

by Denise OBerry on 08/10/2009 10:45 0 comments , 112 views
Have you cut back on giving during this recession? According to Kristin Tillquist, author of Capitalizing on Kindness: Why 21st Century Professionals Need to Be Nice, that’s a mistake. Giving is good for your business and it can come back to you tenfold. Tillquist offers up these five tips for business giving during this recession. Treat your [...] No related posts.
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PitchEngine Asia

by Des Walsh on 08/10/2009 00:39 0 comments , 86 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging, IBNMA Issues
As regular readers and subscribers will know, one of the things I do these days is look after the Australia and New Zealand market for social media release platform PitchEngine. Some exciting news for me this week on the PitchEngine front, with particularly practical implications for the many Australian and NZ companies marketing into China [...]
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The Age of the Stream is Upon Us

by Paul Chaney on 08/09/2009 14:09 0 comments , 76 views
Categories: Social Media
via farm3.static.flickr.com As you may know, Steve Rubel has ceased publishing to his long-tenured blog Micropersuasion, in favor of using Posterous to lifestream. According to Steve, lifestreaming is where it's at, and I've no reason to argue otherwise. If that's...
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My interview with the Faith@Work consultation

by Marcus Goodyear on 08/08/2009 22:42 0 comments , 88 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging, Advisory Board
Timothy Dalrymple interviewed me as part of the Patheos Faith@Work consultation. He’s a pretty good guy–and let me ramble way too much. Basically, in our conversation, I shared everything I’ve learned since I started working with Mr. Butt at TheHighCalling.org. Pop over and take a look. If you have questions, leave them in the comments over [...]
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Talking About a Competitor in Social Media

by ckieff on 08/05/2009 21:24 0 comments , 95 views
I had an interesting (twitter) conversation today with Ari Herzog of AriWriter about what to do when you encounter a situation when you have don’t have the product a customer needs.  Ari asked this question of several people who were mentioned in Chris Brogan’s blog post about ESPN’s poorly executed new social media policy. “@ckieff @newmediajim [...]
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Retail Marketers Shift To Social and Email

by CB Whittemore on 08/04/2009 07:41 0 comments , 86 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging
Spiral joy letter originally uploaded by Green Velvet.
Spiral joy letterAccording to Recession Forces New Focus In E-Commerce Marketing by Anne D'Innocenzio, a Forrester Research/Shop.org industry study released on 05/05/09 states that online retailers are shifting "their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools such as Facebook, Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or just work to retain customers."

In this case, traditional adverti...
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Who is Using Social Media Release? Pitch Engine Founder Jason Kintzler

by Des Walsh on 07/15/2009 22:04 0 comments , 114 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging, IBNMA Issues
One of the several reasons I was pleased to sign up recently to represent social media release platform Pitch Engine’s interests in Australia and New Zealand was that I both respect and like the Founder and CEO, Jason Kintzler. Jason’s not only smart enough to have taken the concept of a social media release – [...]
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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

by Global Patriot on 07/15/2009 00:40 0 comments , 92 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging
This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]
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Clay Shirky on Historical Significance of Social Media

by Des Walsh on 07/13/2009 03:16 0 comments , 90 views
Categories: Social Media, Blogging, IBNMA Issues
Having been in a former life trained as an historian, I get a special enjoyment out of hearing very tech-savvy people explain technologies within an historical context. And preferably a context which recognizes that there were events of importance happening before the Internet arrived! One such explanation, which starts not from sixty years ago [...]
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