Yesterday we had another presentation from Jive on their Clearspace app. Definitely a promising tool for our company, something we would like to leverage both internally AND externally. But the best part of this week (so far) was meeting Jive’s Social Software evangelist, Gia Lyons. Here is how she was Read more…
Last month I attended the New Communications Forum which was really eye opening. But probably the best part about it was the chance to meet other people who are in the same boat as I am. Being the “Social Media Expert” is fun, but it’s even better when you’re in Read more…
Yet another example of how Twitter is helpful : ) Scoble tweeted about his visit to Dogster. So of course I had to see it. On this site qik.com you can post video from your phone. And then I noticed a familiar face on Scoble’s qik.com page. My friend Stacy Read more…
I was trying to decide what to name the Corporate Blog I plan to write for my company. (Which has not launched yet and so I’m kind of practicing on my own here.) So I decided to survey my friends and they came back with some pretty funny suggestions for Read more…
We are on a mission to “sell” social media internally. I recently created a presentation about “The ROI of Internal Social Media” The information is based on a case study from Radford University entitled: “The Relationship Between Social Capital, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Outcomes“ The reason I did the presentation Read more…
There is nothing more encouraging than talking to someone who is doing REALLY cool stuff. I had the good fortune to speak personally with Autumn Truong of Cisco today. We met last year at the SNCR forum in CA. Autumn used to manage the virtual events for Cisco, but now Read more…
One should never rest one one’s laurels, but need to take a brief minute here to celebrate what I consider to be a victory. I’ve been evangelizing the benefits of Social Media since I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in April 2006, and first drank from the firehose of the Read more…