A while back I wrote a post on social media for events which spawned from a presentation I made on the topic. I’ve contended for a long time that while building relationships through social media is great, it still doesn’t replace meeting someone in person. So while recently attending RIM WES 2010 (RIM as in …Read More
Foursquare For Events
What Foursquare Learned From Pavlov’s Dogs That will Rock Your Business

Throughout college I changed my major a few times. Ironically I landed right back where I started and wound up with a degree in Psychology. I thought it would be useless until I got into business and realized that no matter what you do in business, it’s about people. Foursquare, a location based social media …Read More
FollowFriday 2.0 New and Improved!

If you are on Twitter you probably already know what FollowFriday is. If not Here is a 140 character explanation: Every Friday, on Twitter, you tweet the twitter id’s of other Twitter users you think people should follow, for whatever reason you choose. The problem with FollowFriday quickly became that every one was tweeting twitter …Read More
Chris Brogan Speaks to the Social Media Club of Dallas – Audio
If you were at the #smcdallas event with Chris Brogan this is for you! Apologies that the audio isn’t 100%, it’s actually lifted from a flip cam video recording. I’ve done my best to boost the levels and compress the noise to acceptable levels. Also, the beginning is truncated. In other words, it’s not perfect, …Read More
Power Up Your Facebook Feed with Yahoo Pipes

I was recently bummed when I figured out that I can only import one of my blog feeds into my Facebook notes (I also wanted to import my personal blog scottismy.name and the feed from my Flickr Photostream). Fortunately, Facebook doesn’t really dictate which of your feeds you can import into notes so the answer …Read More
Using Social Networks Before, During and After Your Events
Over the past year I’ve had a couple of opportunities to speak to Event Planners on the topic of using Social Networks and Social Media for events. Since event planning is something I’ve done a little of (though not by profession) and internet technologies are the forefront of my business I thought this would be …Read More
The Role of BuddyPress in Social Networks and What that Means for Facebook
Prompted by a tweet from Brian Gardner (@bgardner) regarding the opportunity for premium themes for BuddyPress I’ve spent the last few days pondering how to clearly articulate why I think the market for premium BuddyPress themes has potential beyond my initial knee-jerk reaction. What follows is (hopefully) a semi-articulate explanation of why BuddyPress and Premium …Read More
Your Social Media EcoSystem

A graphical explanation of the Social Media Ecosystem depicting relationships and functionality. Most attempts to describe the social media ecosystem are two dimensional making it difficult to accurately depict.
Flickr, Search Engine Optimization and Your Images

I love pictures and as an avid photographer and all-around web guy I’ve loving seeing the incredible images people capture, though it matters little if your awesome pictures can’t be found. On the web as elsewhere, pictures help to tell the story, as well as visually break up your writing making it easier on the …Read More