by Debbie Weil | May 21, 2007 | Social Media, Stuff, Uncategorized
I’ve been talking about this very phenomenon for a while now. Today there’s an article by media columnist Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post titled: Don’t Quote Me. The point he makes is that executives often prefer to do an interview with a...
by Debbie Weil | May 20, 2007 | Social Media, Uncategorized
Had a wonderful lunch in Washington DC last week with Karen Christensen of Berkshire blog fame. Karen is CEO of Great Barrington, MA – based publishing company Berkshire Publishing Group. Recently she’s been spending weeks at a time in China. Notice her...
by Debbie Weil | May 7, 2007 | Social Media, Uncategorized
A freelancer called me today for an article she’s working on for Microsoft Home Magazine about the social networking phenomenon. While answering her questions about why more and more folks are using social networking sites like LinkedIn, I clicked over to...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 23, 2007 | Social Media, Uncategorized
Look at the mock-up below of a typical Amazon product page (this one for an iPod) and you’ll get an idea of what social media looks like on a Web page. The schematic was created by Web designer and writer Joshua Porter. Shows 16 different ways that Amazon is...
by Debbie Weil | Apr 23, 2007 | Events, Global, ROI, Social Media, Stuff, Uncategorized
Technorati chairman Peter Hirshberg gave a fab opening keynote at last week’s conference on corporate communication and technology held by The Conference Board in New York. Apologies for taking so long to get this post up. I’ve been going non-stop. I was...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 28, 2007 | In the News, Social Media, Uncategorized
Watch this CBS interview with Robert Scoble (apparently filmed at his new office at Podtech.net in San Jose). It’s the best explanation I’ve seen so far of what Twitter is and how it works. As always, Scoble is in his best self-deprecating form. The video...
