Tech Opinion
Is Twitter Changing Real Life Social Interactions?
Last week I had the pleasure of flying out to Portland for Ignite Portland 3. I had a fabulous time and met some really awesomesauce people including one of my biggest idols Marshall Kirkpatrick, fellow Grand Effect Network member and now team writer for ReadWriteWeb, Frederic of The Last Podcast, and a host of [...]
Universities Need To Take Control Of Their Online Brand
Andy DeSoto has a great post up titled “Social media for colleges and universities”. DeSoto talks about students and alumni that set up university pages and how he feels that it’s something the universities should be doing, not the students. I couldn’t agree more! He also brings up a good point about universities and their [...]
The Irony Of Waiting For Gadgets VS Web Services
One of my favorite gadget bloggers brought up an interesting point today about the downside of the waiting game for companies. In her post she notes the following:
The problem with waiting today is that it only takes a window of a few days or weeks for new technology to [...]
Money Should Never Motivate You
One of my friends posed a question today: Does money motivate you to blog?
Everyone’s different. Some people have to pay the bills. I don’t really have that kind of financial responsibility. I’m single, with no kids, and I don’t spend money getting my hair and nails done every two weeks. So money isn’t really [...]
Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used
To Sarah Perez: You’re right, real people don’t have time for social media. In fact, real people, especially the ones that work at my university, don’t have time for the web period.
My University Is Not Into Social Media nor the Web Itself
Yesterday, I received a hard and shocking slap back to reality. I’m so used [...]
Comments: Are They For The Author Or The Audience?
Everyday we crank out posts for readers to respond. We try to contribute to the conversation. We aim to solve a problem or have a problem solved for us by our readers. Everyday. The overall point is to receive feedback among other things. Can we all agree with that?Yet, there’s a huge stir about conversation [...]
Letting Twitter Do The Work For You
One of the greatest things about Twitter to me is that the conversations can help you brainstorm. This is also one of the reasons why I’m addicted to Twitter. I previously wrote about ways to get through writer’s block, and conversation was a key element in breaking through. What’s one of the most conversational [...]
