Recently, I was reading an email from Seth Godin about his new book "Poke the Box" that he is releasing through his new publishing venture The Domino Project. Seth was excited because enough of us had tweeted about and purchased the book to bring the price of the Kindle version down to $1.00. Yes, … [Read more...]
How to manage multiple Twitter accounts effectively
Several times in the last year I've had to address the confusion that having two Twitter accounts with my name on them causes. The two accounts are @raffel and @JimRaffel. The two accounts serve different purposes and I have written the bio of each to reflect those differences. Nonetheless confusion … [Read more...]
Hello, I'm Shelby and I met him on Twitter
Jim Raffel has been alluding to a new editor for JimRaffel.com for awhile now. It's finally time for introductions. "I met him on Twitter." That sentence has quickly become part of my everyday vocabulary. For me, Twitter started out as a way to meet people socially and keep up to date on local … [Read more...]
This weekend has been brought to you by Twitter
Friday evening we attended the Translator holiday party. Twelve months ago I did not know Mark Fairbanks or Cynthia Thomas (The Translators). I met Cindi and Mark online in that strange and wonderful place we call The Twitter. I can say the same of many other party attendees who I know today only … [Read more...]
Social Media Activity Increases Blog Traffic
An unscientific analysis of traffic on this site shows a 20 to 25% downturn when I am less active on the various social media channels I utilize. I have observed these downturns in blog traffic when I am traveling. When traveling I post fewer status updates to Facebook and engage less on … [Read more...]
Foursquare badges, what's all the fuss about?
On a recent airline flight, after completing a couple hours of work, I decided to surf the interwebs a bit, courtesy of gogo Inflight Wi-Fi. Upon checking my Twitter stream I quickly realized there was a Foursquare Mile High badge that could be earned. Here's a little story of how I learned about … [Read more...]
Win a Scott Stratten UnTour UnParty Milwaukee Ticket
The UnBook UnTour promoting the release of Scott Stratten's new book will be stopping in Milwaukee next Thursday, November 18th. While I'm thrilled to say I have an Unsponsor Top Level ticket (now sold out) I am also sad to say I will be out of town on business and unable to use the ticket. This is … [Read more...]
Linkedin: Think Corporate
Linkedin is not Facebook and it's not Twitter. Its the community of the corporate world and when in Rome..... While I sometimes get downright goofy on Twitter on Linkedin I'm all business. On Facebook I'll post a funny picture or link to a video. For me, Linkedin is really not the place for … [Read more...]
Social media signal and noise
How do you separate the signal (those messages that matter) from all the noise that exists in the social media universe? Without a strategy and some tactics to back it up, it's very easy to get lost in the noise. I'm not saying the noise isn't interesting and even fun. Instead I'm personally … [Read more...]
Does Social Media Work?
I heard this question no fewer than a dozen times over the last couple of days on the show floor at GraphExpo. Anyone catch the irony in this question? That's the second show in less than a month where the topic of conversation, people sought me out to have, was social media. My goal with social … [Read more...]
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