Nov 4, 2011

Being Social can be pretty time consuming. If you are trying to keep up with all of the platforms it can actually become quite overwhelming. The bigger your network becomes and the more presence you have online the more directions you will find yourself being pulled. Opportunities appear to be everywhere, but many are nothing more than time wasters being...

Oct 26, 2011

Hi everyone, my name is Dan Newman and I am not a Social Media expert. I do not have a certificate from the Social Media University, and I work full time (not doing Social Media). However, I like to write, share, blog, chat, engage, and create meaningful relationships using Social Platforms. I really enjoy writing about Social Media through the eyes of...

Oct 19, 2011

Over the past several weeks I have been watching and following the debate around the Who’s Who in Social Media are universally unfollowing nearly every one of their followers. The reasons for their “Great Twitter Purge” are all over the board, but include the following:   DM usage is too difficult lack of real engagement Inability to please...

Oct 12, 2011

Okay, so now that you cannot go a minute without hearing the words Facebook or Twitter, you have given in to the reality that Social Media is not going away. You are now “Social” to correctly apply the term (as if you weren’t before?). You share on Twitter, you post on Facebook, of course you are on LinkedIn and perhaps you even blog to share...

Oct 5, 2011

This past Saturday I finally was able to free myself up for an hour to attend Margie Clayman’s Tweetdiner, one of my favorite Twitter Chats. The topic of the chat was Social Good, something I wrote about just a few weeks ago and something that I truly believe in.   In the process of the discussion, one of the topics that came up was how Social Good...

Sep 28, 2011

I have heard a lot of questions lately asking people to make choices. Engage or Broadcast? Authentic or Optimistic? Google+ or Twitter or Facebook or… I see these questions and I think to myself why are we framing all of these questions with “Or” rather than “And”? Okay, I realize that the essence of the word “or”...