Some years ago, I worked at a design shop here in Richmond, VA that primarily focused on museum exhibit design. The average stay of any employee there was roughty six months. I, not wanting to upset the balance, didn’t stay long. It was probably the most miserable six months of my life. It wasn’t all [...]
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How can Twitter make money?
This week there has been a flurry of activity surrounding Twitter and their potential plans to charge for commercial use. Then yesterday afternoon the folks at twitter repsponded that there was nothing to report. They basically stated that whatever they do they will NOT be charging. “Twitter will remain free to use by everyone…” The [...]
Porn < Social Networking on the web!
According to an article on Reuters, Porn sites have been surpassed by Social networking sites for the first time. From what I understood of the article, it was specifically refering to internet searches. I’d love to find out more about their research. My indepth (not really) research didn’t show nearly the same results. Not exactly [...]
Monitoring the conversation is a win-win
Tonight I decided to plan an event. Last year, a bunch of the people I worked with at a now defunct tech company got together for drinks after the winter holidays. It was great seeing them and I thought we should do it again. To organize last year’s event I used Evite, “Evite.com is the [...]
Job Hunting? Does HR look at your MySpace page?
In the competitive and costly world of recruiting, companies are doing everything they can to find out who they are hiring. They will spend sometimes thousands of dollars invistigating potential hires. I’ve known employers to do criminal background checks, calling neighbors, previous employers and even current employers. Some even want to know the status of [...]
Twitter as a customer service tool?
OK, so many of us have heard about what Frank Elaison (@comcastcares) of Comcast’s Customer Outreach has done with twitter. If you haven’t, I’ll give you the abbreviated version: In April of this year, Michael Arrington had some issues with Comcast. He was pretty upset and made his frustrations known via his Twitter account (@TechCrunch). [...]
Top 7 ways to monitor blogs for brand perception
It has been discussed over and over again, “Who owns a brand?”. The answer is simple. Nobody Everyone owns your brand. It is a collective and individual perception of an idea. As PR professionals, we used to be able to push a message to a lot of people and expect them to buy into it. [...]
Harder to push than pull
In my last post, I discussed some tools for managing the information that interests you. Now we move on to adding your own information to the stream. There are hundreds if not thousands of web applications out there, I, of course, don’t use them all. I started with one, them tried a couple more. Now [...]
Did you just call me a “Twit”?
The following was posted previously by me at http://crt-tanaka.blogspot.com/ for lack of a better home. ++++++ 30 years ago it was hard to get information from outside your immediate area, greatly more difficult was getting information from across the globe. The globe itself was in the way… Now you can send and receive information on [...]
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