always the critic

first up, happy new year! it was a much needed break but i’ve had to hit the ground running it’s been one helluva start with work extremely busy.
over my break i consumed a lot of media but didn’t do much contribution. i did a lot of thinking and introspection and have come to a resolution: [...]

issues and crisis management in social media

a tale of two craigs
craig badings and craig pearce colleague and ex-colleague here at ogilvy were discussing issues and crisis management over on mr pearce’s blog. given that they were talking about a conversation we’d had i thought i throw in my two cents worth.
let me preface this by saying the gentlemen mentioned are seasoned [...]

dear rupert

dear rupert
it has been a long time since we have spoken, i dare say it’s close to never now, but it has not stopped me from observing your farming business from afar. it appears you’re in a spot of bother and felt it would be remiss of me not to at least offer a different [...]

kami, i disagree: the online world is the real world

i read a post by kami over communications overtones where she discusses the social media “cultists”. i agree with her for the most part, as post echoes one of mine from the week earlier (great minds).
that is, until i got to the end of the post:
While the web world is indeed influential, it is not [...]

don’t believe the social media jihadists

i have been thinking alot lately about the development and evolution of social media. i have also been tuning into alot of twitter conversations and reading alot of blogs. what is becoming apparent is that there are many social media jihadists out there that think social media is the only form of media for the [...]

social media 101: help! i need to get into this social media thing

when i was in i.t. (and even now) i was fielding technical support questions for friends and family. now that my day job has changed, the questions have changed a little. people now ask me about the social media. the most common question i get asked goes along these lines: “i’ve heard about this social [...]

social media case study: drupal.org-part i

few posts ago i wrote about my experiences tweeting about drupal and then having the drupal redesign guys start to follow my tweets.
well, i was immensely impressed with the proactiveness of this approach and i reached out to the team to find out more about the project.
for those of you who don’t already know, [...]

recession hits social media startups: twitter in the deadpool

twitters investors have run out of money. the massive hits to the market have taken their toll, and bad loans elsewhere have forced investors to pull the plug.
at the moment the scenario is improbable but not impossible. if you said lehman brothers and wamu were going to go bust two years back you would have [...]

social media body of knowledge

back when i was a systems architect most of the projects i executed on were overseen by a project manager. their mandate was to ensure the project came in on time and on budget to a sufficient level of quality.
they had help in what they did because of a number of frameworks. one of them [...]

the most responsive social media experience i’ve had: drupal

i think i have just had one of my most responsive customer service experiences ever and i am not even a customer.
drupal is an open source content management platform. i experimented with it for a while but ultimately i found that as i was mainly blogging, wordpress suited me better.
i tweeted about it and found [...]

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