Whether you’re just starting to blog, or if you’ve been posting for years… you’ve done it. Right after hitting “Publish”, right after the tweet goes out or the link gets posted to Facebook, you see it: the error. The gaffe. The misspeak. The broken link. It’s small, but it’s there. Can you go in and [...]
1. It’s-all-about-me blog posts 2. Being anti-everything If there’s one thing the social media world needs less of, it’s the Kumbaya sunshine-and-roses atmosphere. But if all you do is criticize what other people are doing — without offering new, alternative ideas — you haven’t done much more than take out the trash. 3. Sporadic posting [...]
Have you ever experienced the dramatic effect of the right song playing at just the right point? Something like that happened to me yesterday afternoon. I had a conversation with a friend I know through social media about an available position at their company. One of the first things (s)he said was, “I had no [...]
The overly-long title for this post comes from two posts that I read recently. They both relate to the degrees to which we edit ourselves in the social media world, and they got me thinking about how I do or don’t edit myself. Justin Kownacki wrote about how, afraid to offend anyone, we censor ourselves, [...]
Some bloggers are difficult to pitch. I hear stories about how some bloggers won’t write about a product or service unless someone they’ve already met in person, or have a relationship of some sort through social media, suggests it to them. If you’re new or relatively unknown, good luck getting their attention. I’m not that [...]
Earlier this week, Vanity Fair put out an article featuring 6 women they deemed “America’s Tweethearts”. Each of these women has garnered a significant audience through Twitter and other social media tools… but the main point the article seemed to stress was that these women were physically attractive (in addition to painting them as more [...]
