Tag: social media

This train wreck that's been happening on all the gossip sites, new channels, and sports outlets should be driving two things home to everyone who lives in the digital age. There is no privacy and can't control your personal brand. So what if you're not Tiger Woods with millions of…

My 3 year old had a ballet recital this weekend. It was awesome. 20 little girls just throwing it all out there for the sheer joy of doing something they enjoy. Big smiles on their faces and having the time of their short lives. Ballet is new to them and…

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Image via CrunchBase[/caption] At Kilgannon, we've made the decision to use Social Radar as our new social media monitoring tool. We did not take this decision lightly. We also scoured the blogs and websites. We also asked partner organizations which tools they were using and then…

Tomorrow I'm running the Atlanta Half Marathon. Back in my early 20s I would have been much better prepared for this effort. I was a competitive cyclist and didn't have the same job and family commitments I do today. In fact, the old me would probably say that present me…

I've already posted on the 10,000 foot view, so I wanted to get at about what I actually learned BlogWell Atlanta. Andy Sernovitz had some important points on ethics and disclosure. He outlined dangers to a brand of not having clear, legal agreements with vendors acting on a brand's behalf…

Finally got my Wave invite and I have a first impression. Google has made the case that Wave is what email would have been been had it been built with today's technology. But Google Wave strikes me more as a collaboration tool rather than a replacement for email. Frankly, I…

As an agency professional, I really enjoyed BlogWell. It provided a great insight into how social media efforts are viewed, integrated, and deployed by big brands. There was a lot of learning to be had from the individual presenters which I'll go into in a later post. But there were…

Image by danorbit. via Flickr The latest technology to get people all hot and bothered in mobile web marketing is augmented reality. Because the technology is so new we don't require any creativity from the people employing the medium other than than just using it proficiently. This is going to…

You knew it would happen. An employee was gonna blow a gasket on Twitter. So now you're thinking maybe this social media thing needs to be clamped down on. And just when it was starting to pay off too. Well did you plan for when the implosion happens? You've got…

The interwebs got me in touch with an old friend last week I had not talked to since I moved east. I picked up the phone and we picked up where we had left off – it was a great conversation. It was also connection worth renewing. But there are…