February 13, 2012 – 9:52 am
Over the past several weeks, the dominating social media trend has been Pinterest, an “online pinboard.” In essence, Pinterest allows you to share and organize batches of images in a multi-column format. Like other networks, users can like your images, follow your feed, and comment. My initial impression of it is a Tumblr blog on [...]
Ever heard the phrase “the devil’s in the details?” I’m here to tell you it’s true! For every clean, elegant, and professionally designed website or web application, there are droves of slipshod, sloppy, or just plain lazy pieces of code I encounter every week. What pains me most is that many of these quirks are [...]
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with several talented folks involved in the field of social communications. At an in-house digital communications event in Dallas last week, I enjoyed excellent conversations with Barbra Rozgonyi of WiredPRWorks and Deidre Walsh of Jive Software. Today, at a meeting of the Social [...]
April 26, 2011 – 10:46 am
Last week, I decided to start a Tumblr blog to curate the various articles and resources I come across in the Twitterverse and the web at large. I’ve called it “Red Mage’s Spellbook,” and you’re welcome to subscribe or follow the blog at http://brightmatrix.tumblr.com/. I joined Tumblr for two reasons: to explore what this social [...]
April 19, 2011 – 10:23 am
I’m sure you’ve found yourself in this situation before: you turn to search engines like Google or Bing to research a topic and come across rather obscure-looking titles or unhelpful descriptions embedded in the results pages. They could look something like this: What is this stuff, and why is it in your results? The Origins [...]
This week’s #smmeasure Twitter chat, held by Marketwire, the company behind Sysomos, focused on dispelling common myths about social media. The first myth raised for discussion was “SM is free, everyone should do it!” Besides the notion that you shouldn’t get involved in social media just for the sake of it (tactics come second to [...]
