It seems like just yesterday we first met, but it wasn’t. It was April 16, 2009 at 7:43PM to be exact. My first tweet was the next day. That was almost three years after you launched but that was when Twitter was really catching on. Maybe it was Ashton Kutcher becoming the first user to reach […]
If We Want Social Media to Change, We Have to Recognize Our Role in It
Every time I teach a class on social media, I begin by fessing up to my love/hate relationship with the platforms. My favorite to pick on is Facebook. I had one student a few years ago who politely listened to my rants until halfway through the semester when she informed me her husband worked at […]
Confessions Of A Former Digital Evangelist
I confess I once called myself a Digital Evangelist. I had it on my LinkedIn profile and my business card. I confess this was back in the post 2008 era and before the fateful 2016 Election when not everyone was as connected as they are today, Twitter was fun and it seemed as though digital […]
What I Learned During The Facebook And Instagram Outage
A funny thing happened during the Facebook, Instagram and What’s App outage this week. We all survived. The world kept spinning. Nobody died because of it – at least not that we know of and Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for world domination was met with the harsh, cruel reality that his social kingdom was not necessary […]
7 Truths About Selling In An Omnichannel World
The topic of my talk at the Big Grow Inspire meeting was about selling when you don’t want to. So when I read the guidelines for the group I had to laugh at the specification that there was to be no selling at the meeting. I knew what Diane meant. There was to be no […]
The One Thing I Still Like About Facebook
Facebook lost its allure for me a long time ago. The 2016 Election turned it into a political cesspool, revealing sides of people I would rather not have seen. I didn’t really need the Cambridge Analytica reveal to convince me that fake news was often spread by fake accounts and bots pretending to be a […]
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