A member of the social media community died this past weekend. Who he was or how he died won’t be a part of this post. I never met him, and had only conversed with him a few times, so using his information to win a boost in visits from Google would be, well, sleazy. But [...]
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Back in February, I started a series of conversations with people who participate in the operation of social media programs for a variety of different brands. Today, I’ll continue with thoughts from the spectacular Lauren Vargas. Lauren Vargas, Director of Community at Radian6, is a Boston-based communications professional with a decade of experience in community relations, [...]
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Three years ago this past Sunday, I sent a tweet to someone I had just started following. Eight months later, in October 2008 — after direct messages, IMs, GChats and iChats — we met, and it was official. This was the girl for me. After that, the long distance phone calls got longer and more [...]
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There are countless social media professionals out there. Freelance social media consultants. Agency social media strategists. PR-two-dot-something-or-others. And they’re all great, and do great work (hopefully!) for brands of all shapes and sizes. But what about the people inside the brands? The people that know what makes the brand tick… and more importantly, what makes [...]
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34 years ago this afternoon, Gradon Waters (my birth name — I was adopted) was born in Bath, Maine, a wee town of 10,000 or so people over 13 square miles. Charlestown, the neighborhood of Boston I live in, has 4,000 more people in 1/13th the space. Needless to say, a lot has happened since [...]
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