I’m speaking on a webinar next month with Ed Poll and Kevin O’Keefe. I’ll have more details on that once everything is finalized. The topic of social networking and advertising came up, and it got me thinking. Social media isn’t advertising, per se, but it is migrating into an umbrella term for everything we
The Rules of Social Networking and Social Media
I’m still catching up on the 1000 or so posts in my Reader. Dumping stuff of no value, Tweeting out things I like, and now inspired to write a quick blog post.
First of all, when it comes to the “rules” of the social web (networking and media combined), there aren’t too many. Oh, we
Ghost Blogging for Attorneys: Ethical or just lacking in transparency?
A big buzz word these days is “transparency” and what it means. For me, transparency on a blog and in social media is the foundation for the trust we are attempting to build with our reader.I like how Social Wayne describes transparency in social media:
Transparency in social media especially pertaining to blogging
Class Act … Reed Smith Listens to Clients and Cuts Billing Rates
It was only yesterday that I was blogging on how law firms should consider lowering billing rates as part of their marketing mix. And this morning I see that Reed Smith has cut billing rates by 20 percent. Yes, they are cutting associate salaries, but they are also cutting the billable hour requirements
Sharing What We’re Reading
When it comes to microblogging a common “complaint” is “why would anyone care what I am eating?”
We don’t care what you’re eating … we care about what you’re thinking.
A lot of what I’m thinking about is what I’m reading today. A lot of what I read comes to me via my Google Reader.
Blog your response
Yes, I’m still reading and enjoying Trust Agents.
A concept that I have been playing with of late, along with good colleagues Jayne Navarre and Russell Lawson, is that we’re not so much doing different things in social media and social networking as much as we are doing the same things, only differently.
Trust Agents: Where have I been??
I finally put down my summer reading and picked up Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust (which has been sitting on my nightstand since the day it came out).
Where have I been?? Oh, yeah, pre-WWII Shanghai, pre-Tudor Court England
Social Networking, Social Media and Transparency
Bzzzzzzzzzzz. That sound you hear are the wheels spinning in my head. Or is it the bee in my bonnet. Or the new rant I feel coming on about being transparent in our online social networking and social media.
Remember Coolerites, for me, social networking and social media are about getting to know, like and