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 | Twitter, Uncategorized
Last night I was watching the Academy Awards along with 40 million other people and who knows how many Twitterers. In the midst of critiquing the dresses and hairstyles of the actresses (yes, that is what women do – I couldn’t decide if I liked Sandra...
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 | Nov 11, 2009 | Twitter, Uncategorized
I was added to a couple more Twitter Lists today. My total is now 190 200. Small potatoes compared with the likes of Robert Scoble (4,297) or Guy Kawasaki (5,743). But it’s a fascinating new metric. It’s the new measure of cool. How many people are really...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 10, 2009 | New New Things, Twitter, Uncategorized
With the announcement yesterday that LinkedIn and Twitter have inked a deal, the gradual meshing of your digital footprints continues. 140-character tweets can now appear as status updates on both LinkedIn and Facebook pages. (Note that you can control which tweets...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 3, 2009 | Twitter, Uncategorized
No need for me to wax expert on Twitter’s new List feature as Mashable, TechCrunch and many others are doing that. (Here’s a video showing how to create a List.) Frankly nobody is an expert yet. We’re all curating (creating lists, culling them,...
