by Debbie Weil | Apr 1, 2010 | New New Things, Social Media, Uncategorized
Hate to get all serious on you on one of my favorite holidays, April Fool’s Day, but ReadWriteWeb poses a good question today: Netflix for the iPad: April Fools Joke or Breaking Story? It’s a riff on “it’s not fair, hey we can’t figure...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 18, 2010 | Events, Social Media, The Corporate Blogging Book, Twitter, Uncategorized
One minute after stepping into the Austin Convention Center last Friday I bumped into Pete Cashmore, the hunky young rockstar CEO of Mashable. I know Pete as we’ve worked on a little project together. He’s a lovely guy – very polite and enthusiastic...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 8, 2010 | Books, Corporate Blogging, Social Media, Uncategorized
As the publisher of a brand new e-book edition of The Corporate Blogging Book I’ve had a blast commissioning a new cover from 1106Design as well as working with e-book guru Joshua Tallent who formatted the manuscript for Kindle (and for the iPad). I’ve...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 16, 2010 | Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized
So how do you discuss that which cannot be discussed in polite conversation? Namely, obesity. Southwest Air even uses the words “delicate policy” to describe how employees should handle a supersize passenger who requires two seats. The incident this week...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 2, 2010 | Marketing, Social Media, Uncategorized
Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void genius has started sending a daily cartoon to his email list. He’s giving it away, right? Yes and no. He is in fact giving away a JPEG of a cartoon. Like today’s, which is a warm up for Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14th. But...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 20, 2009 | Events, Social Media, Uncategorized
How sweet it was this week to see the buzz around the third edition of Sweets and Tweets. 70 folks signed up for my social media event held on Nov. 17, 2009 at the very cool Baked and Wired in DC’s Georgetown. The evening event featured free cupcakes and Mark...
