Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Is the blog really “social media,” or just another form of broadcast?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Mitch Joel posted a thoughtful blog this week about the role of conversation in social media. You can read it here. I suggest you do. I’ll wait for you right here. (more…)

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Social media tips for small businesses…and others.

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Back by popular demand (Six people can’t be wrong!) I’ve got a new list for you this week.  Bear in mind that this is not high-brow reading for top social media GuruChampionEvangilisticExperts.  This is the basics.  But I hear routinely from folks I know that they’re intimidated about getting started, or that they’ve joined LinkedIn or Twitter and are getting nothing from it.  So this one’s for y’all!    (more…)

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Sometimes, you’re better off kicking it old school…

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

By now, you know I’m a fan of social media.  I believe it has enormous potential, and is enormously underused in the title and mortgage industry. In fact, I think there are a lot of communications and marketing tools out there that we’re not taking advantage of. But you know what?  In some cases, that’s for the best.  (more…)

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So, you say you want to start a blog?

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I can remember attending a couple of fairly worthless marketing/PR trade association meetings a few years ago where the only word spilling from everyone’s mouth seemed to be “blog.”  Businesses just had to get into the act.   ”Everyone” was doing it!  Don’t ask “why.”  Just blog, dammit! (more…)

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