by James Ball | Jan 6, 2010 | Advice, Community, Listening, Marketing, Networking, Social Media
Flashback to 9:30 last night (screen should be getting wavy….now) I’m looking over a whole bunch of words and some really good links for tomorrow’s post. I scrap the whole thing. The more I put into it, the more confusing it gets. Social media really can be confusing...
by James Ball | Jan 4, 2010 | Advice, Community, Facebook, Listening, Marketing, Networking, Social Media, Twitter
Check in over the next 5 days as I address some common concerns that small businesses have about participation and engagement in social media. “Can I get by without social media?” “Is it really as easy as I’ve been led to believe?” “Can it save my business?”...
by James Ball | Dec 30, 2009 | Blogging, Commenting, Community, Networking, Resources, Social Media
If you blog, then you know how wonderful it is to have engaged readers who frequently comment on your thoughts and ideas. You may not own a blog, but are instead the type of person who leaves comments on the blogs of others. Either way, the chances are that you...
by James Ball | Dec 28, 2009 | Case Studies, Community, Listening, Marketing, Networking, Resources, Social Media, Strategy
It all started yesterday with this tweet from my friend Carol Flammer: At this exact same moment, I overheard a LEGO® commercial that my daughter was watching say something about “social skills”. This started me thinking about ways to best explain certain aspects of...
by James Ball | Dec 21, 2009 | Community, Listening, Networking, Social Media
It’s about community and cooperation, so how do we conquer the competition? It’s my opinion that we don’t…besides, it’s just so “yesterday”. If social media has taught us anything, it’s that those to the left, right, ahead of, and behind us can teach us...
by James Ball | Dec 18, 2009 | Community, Social Media
After reading some great social media guidelines from companies like Intel, I began to wonder how some of these guidelines might impact the rest of us in our everyday work lives. It is clear that companies, big and small, are taking a more serious look at how factors...
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