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New Social Media Agencies Added

A warm welcome to the following social media agency and consultants that have recently joined the Constructing Social Builders Index.  Over the past month the list has grown to 56!  Amazing!  Here are the latest members, if you are looking for help with your social media initiatives, please check these great organizations out:
Social Media Consultants:

Jason [...]

The Speakers’ Corner Analogy

I started my career in the great city of London where I would spend my Sunday mornings at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park.  For someone with little money, it was great, free entertainment to listen to the array of speakers stand on their soapboxes, some with great skill and [...]

Social Media’s Allegory of the Cave

The following is another re-post from my Prospero blog. A fitting post for surreal times. 
Every good philosophy student, and even the really bad ones like me, remember Plato’s allegory of the cave. Man is chained, looking at a wall where shadows from a puppet are the only reality they know. One man (the [...]

Social Media Agency Listing

I am thrilled to officially announce the Constructing Social Builders guide!  A listing resource for agencies and consultants with social media experience.  I am hoping that this will eventually be a comprehensive listing of all the brilliant organizations and constulants that I have been talking to (and many I have yet to meet).  
Please spread [...]

Choosing a social media agency?

If your organization is looking for an agency to guide and help you with your social media strategy and or project, I have one very simple piece of advice for you: find out if the agency practices what they preach!
In other words; does your future social media agency have a regular blog (if so, does [...]

The future of the Social Media Agency

I was in California not long ago and had an opportunity to talk with Maggie Fox of the Social Media Group, Giovanni Rodriquez of The Conversation Group,as well as Adam Broitman and Earl Adams of Crayon.
These social media agencies (and others too) are doing amazing work for leading brands. As I was speaking with [...]

Social Architects

Over the past 3 years there has been an incredible shift in who is building social media sites. Originally, I was talking directly to the vanguards in the industry who took a bet on what they saw as a great new technology and worked directly with it.
Today there is a lot more confidence in [...]

Organic Architecture & Social Media

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s great concepts was Organic Architecture, probably best illustrated by the famed FallingWater house in Pennsylvania. Well ahead of his time, many of his principals apply just as well to constructing online social spaces. Eco-Architect David Pearson describes Wrights principals in New Organic Architecture.
“Let the design:

be inspired by [...]

Why Architecture?

In various roles, at a number of start ups and large organizations, I have focused on leading and executing an online strategy to meet (and hopefully exceed) business goals for organizations.  Along the way I have always drawn inspiration from architecture.  If you think about the problems that architects are trying to solve in various [...]