Yesterday I had a lovely chat with two fellow influencer marketers, Maryanne Conlin and Janet Thaeler. Both conversations were quite different but both really reassured me that my practice at Gerr.is and…
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I’m an influencer, pay me more!
Back in January I had the honor of being a guest on Shel Holtz‘s premier PR podcast, For Immediate Release. It must have gone well because I was back on a…
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If you post it will they come (to read your blog)?
I work harder promoting my online content than I do writing the posts themselves. And so does everyone else, including mainstream media. If you build it, they won’t come unless you…
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Social media, echo chambers, and the decline of discourse
When I fell in love with social media a decade ago, I was convinced that media democratization would be the best thing for informed political discourse since the invention of…
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Kindness opens many doors online
There are a lot of assholes online, though very few of them are dyed-in-the-wool. They’re simply exceptionally guarded, armored against all the other assholes online. It’s a vicious cycle. We’ve all…
Read MoreMake the most of your social media fans
Most brands and companies today have some sort of social media presence. Even in industrial and technical sectors, Twitter and Facebook have proved themselves to be lively venues for engagement,…
Read MoreHow to protect yourself on Twitter
I saw two interesting things recently that have me thinking about security and protecting yourself on Twitter. I had searched the hashtag of a convention that was going on nearby,…
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Surefire Social introduces SurePulse “webmaster tools”
Surefire Social is about to offer an all-in-one social media, search, reputation, review, analytics tool in the form of SurePulse, now in beta. I get to play with a lot of…
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Help Google help you optimize your content for search
It’s really hard to get Google’s attention. Content marketing is indeed a silver bullet — why do you think I’m writing this — but there are ways of wooing search…
Read MoreDigital futurism, UX, and streams: tomorrow will look like yesterday
Having been in the field of emerging technologies for many years now, often people ask me “what is next? What will technology look like many years from now?” My answer invariably is: “I…
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