A Salute to Relevance in Social Media
I came across a recent blog post from Information Dissemination on the 6 Commandments of blogging. The commandments at first glance are similar to the same great advice that you would find from Chris Brogan, Jeremiah Owyang, Liz Strauss and others. Here is his quick list from the post: Be Interesting Be Insightful Be Social Be Interactive Set [...]
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 [...]
New Social Media Info Resources
There has been some great information released recently. I have updated the Constructing Social Planning page and I am also providing a bigger summary below. Razorfish FEED: Razorfish’s regular publication on consumer behavior in the online world. Great information on current online consumer trends. (Oct 2008) Cone Consumer Social Network Study: 85% of social media users [...]
Web Guild Social Media Strategies Conference Presentation
Below is the presentation that I gave on Thursday at Web Guild’s Social Media Strategies Conference. It was a great session. After speaking to several attendees, I thought that it would be best to cut my time short and break into working sessions for B2B, B2C, Non-Profit and Internal communities and work through how to [...]
Preparing for WebGuild Social Media Strategies Conference
This morning I will be holding a working session on developing a social media strategy at WebGuild’s Social Media Strategies Conference. The presentation will be a accumulation of many posts that I have not had time to write, it is a good chance to help me accelerate the process and get the ideas out of [...]
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 interesting topics, and others without either. [...]
New Social Media Agency Listings
Over the past week several great organizations have been added to the Constructing Social Builders listing of social media agencies and consultants. The organizations that joined the Constructing Social Builders list this week include: The New Group: Integrated Digital Marketing Agency in Portland, Oregon Live Path: Customer Experience Consultancy specializing in Social Media, Web and Channel Optimization [...]
Pics from The New Marketing Summit
rkI was able to drop in on The New Marketing Summit for a day and took a few pictures of the many great conversations and fun people there. Enjoy! /colin
Constructing Social for Change
Today is Blog Action Day and the focus is on poverty. I wanted to share a story from my past. Coralee Whitcomb founded Boston’s Virtually Wired, a non-profit dedicated to connecting everyone to computers and the internet. Virtually Wired was a tremendous resource to anyone that could not afford a computer or internet connection. This [...]
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 philosopher-king) [...]
