Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Motrin jumps into social media head first

Monday, November 17th, 2008

  I spent a few minutes of my lunch break catching up on the Motrin saga. For those needing a recap (courtesy of Groundswell): Motrin put the ad you see above on its Web site. First mistake -- the ad is wrong. Since my wife is affiliated ...

A personal wiki

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I came across Andy Payne's website this morning from a reference on Hacker News. The item that took me to his site was about startup equity which I am researching as I work my way through trying to find a partner for my own startup plans. What caught my attention ...

Twitter as a work communication vehicle

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I manage a team of people scattered all over the world. I have people in Texas, Washington, California, New Hampshire, Mexico and Australia. Including contractors I have 15 people. There are pockets that work on the same applications but for the most part everyone is working on different projects or ...

Being a Technology Steward

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Nancy White Originally uploaded by So Misguided At work I've been trying to push some tools to share knowledge and build community within our organization and across HP. I'm not alone in this effort as there are othersĀ  that feel the same way I do. Doing this type of work ...

Tweet Hillary

Monday, January 28th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb has a list of Twitter feeds for some of the candidates posted this morning. The counts look like this: Ron Paul, @RonPaul2008, with 822 followers John Edwards, @johnedwards, with 4,282 followers Barack Obama, @BarackObama, with 6,654 followers Hillary Clinton, @hillaryclinton, with 197 followers I'm not surprised at all that Obama is leading the pack. ...

I Got Your Social Media Right Here

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I was lucky enough to be able to spend the day at the Got Social Media conference in Houston today. It was really worth taking a day away from work to hear some excellent speakers and to network with some very intelligent, thought provoking people or new media douchebags for ...

Social Lending & Philanthropy

Monday, December 24th, 2007

You'll see a few badges in the right sidebar to Kiva, Prosper and Donors Choose. These each have a few things in common but also some key differences. First they all are about money. You giving it. With Kiva you give it to some entrepreneur in what is usually a third ...