If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This short list of basic rules for creating an effective About page has been prompted by my frustration with the number of blogs and other websites that either do not have an About page or, more commonly in my experience,…
I have to admit I have no idea how pervasive the online social networking site, Twitter, is in China, let alone its current relevance for doing business in China. This post is about one instance in which Twitter seems to have served a good business purpose – i.e. putting a couple of entrepreneurial people together,…
Like many others, presumably including most or all of his 397,080 other followers on Twitter, I’m a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. I admire his hard-won success and am inspired not just by his passion (I’ve met my share of passionate dills in my time) but more by his amazing combination of passion for what he…
How many friends do you have? Or should I ask, rather, “How many ‘friends’ do you have?” Any newcomer to the world of online social networking, especially anyone of the digital immigrant generations, could be forgiven for becoming confused about the terminology of “friends” and – the new verb courtesy of the social networking phenomenon…
WSJ Social Media Policy: Still Not Getting It Mashable’s Stan Schroeder takes issue with WSJ’s new rules for employee participation in social networks. Instead of asking what can social media do for my organization? WSJ, he says are mostly: how can social media harm us and what we can do to prevent it? Old school….
How Executives Should be Using Social Media – BusinessWeek A collection of articles, billed as a “Special Report” and with the tag “How smart companies are using Twitter and Facebook – and what’s next on the horizon” (tags: socialmedia Twitter Facebook BusinessWeek)