When I was in LA for the #140conf a few months ago, I ran into Carol Quinn aka @3Lunches. Our interaction was brief, but the thought of three lunches stuck in my head because…well, I love food.
When I got home I connected with Carol via Twitter and went and checked out 3Lunches.com. The concept is to ask for coaching from someone who has knowledge you need. This is done in a format set around three actual lunches. Read the rest of this entry »
Community is something everyone in the social space is looking to build and, personally, I think that’s extremely hard. When clients approach me to work with them on building community and loyalty, I always tell them to be prepared – as it’s an exercise that requires patience, dedication and, most of all, engagement. There are some shining examples of folks who are doing a terrific job at community building – like my friends at The Roger Smith Hotel aka @RSHotel in New York City.
I got to know Adam J Wallace aka @adwal and Brian Simpson aka @Bsimi (private) on Twitter long before I knew anything about The Roger Smith Hotels. But, as our relationships developed, I began to pay more attention to what they were doing, how they were engaging and what kind of influence and loyalty they were building as a result of their genuine interest in and effort towards building community on behalf of the hotel. They work together to ensure that the social outreach for the hotel runs smoothly and are always coming up with new and innovative ideas, which makes them interesting, exciting and worthy of attention. Here’s an interview I did recently with @adwal that tells more about their philosophy: Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday Dec 1st I was in NYC shooting videos and attending a #140conf meet up. I had a great day hanging at the Roger Smith Hotel aka @RSHotel where I shot of a few of my videos. That night I was literally surrounded by a bevy of blondes and a few brunettes. As I looked around the room, the amount of women easily doubled the amount of men.
When you think of the top names in social media, a list of men come to mind easily. It’s harder to think of women who are dominant in this space. That being said women are more social and they outnumber the amount of men in the space. Collectively women are swarming in masses creating tsunami waves of influence. Read the rest of this entry »
Hire a professional web site designer who knows what they are doing and has proven themselves in the field.
A professional web designer will be up to date on current design trends, and will know how to properly script your site with web standards compliant code.
Make sure the web developer you choose uses web standards compliant code.
This includes using XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). There are many benefits of utilizing Web Standards in your code, including accessibility and search engine friendly code. Web Standards Code makes your site future proof. A great way to check up on your web developer is to test a few pages of their site with the W3C Validator (http://www.w3c.org), although, just because a site doesn’t validate does not mean you’ve found a bad developer.
RT @waynesutton: Will somebody tell the guys over at @Skype that macs have webcams and would like to make a 10-way video call too!September 3, 2010 8:00
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