Posts under ‘Blogging’

The line of business people, politicians, non-profit organizational executives and others who want their message noticed is long.
Just about everyday I talk with somebody who feels that social media and web 2.0 is some kind of magic fairy dust that will zap your message to just the right person at the right time with little [...]

Have you ever had an unpleasant customer service experience with Comcast, their cable television, telphone or internet service?
Many have struggled in getting their Comcast service to work and were left with mountains of frustration. Check out this blog — “Comcast Must Die” — and see how blogs have given consumers a powerful platform to [...]

I get frustrated trying to learn about issues relating to local government in my area, city hall, city council, the mayor, the police department, the county commission and nearby townships.
Forget about going to the local newspaper where there might be an occasional story about some off-the-wall controversy at the city council. [...]

Where did the first news of this week’s earthquake come from?  CNN?  New York Times?  Other television networks?It appears that Twitter users in China were the first to get word out about this terrible tragedy.  Read this post from Rob La Gatta of Real Lawyers Have Blogs.You familiar with Twitter?  It’s a social web tool.  Wherever [...]

Here they go again, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) are continuing to lead with using social media to advance their business interests.
For their mid-year legislative meeting in Washington, D.C., they have created a Twitter network.   You can follow happenings as they happen and have them sent to your computer of cellphone.
Not familiar with Twittering?  [...]

Continue to think about the community for your blog. It’s vital that you identify it. From that knowledge, you can more effectively research, write and publish your posts.
Here’s some help from Geoff Livingston, author of the book, Now Is Gone, and a blog by the same name:

Community: A group of people living together [...]

This is a tuffy for people in our state–Michigan–and others to figure out for their blogs:

How do you determine who is in your community for your blog?
How is a community different from an audience?

Don’t expect to wrap your head around this in one visit.  The marketplace has changed fundamentally in the way it communicates.
Think about [...]

Save this blog post from Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net.  Bookmark it.
In it, he writes about pro-blogger Leo Babauta who tells about the “tipping point” for his blog.  He got his first readers and then engaged them in a conversation about what they wanted to read, the kinds of information they would find useful.
Their response shaped [...]

More and more people, right here, smack dab in the middle of Michigan, are starting to ask me questions about blogs and how they fit with other communication tools on the web.
During the past four plus years that I’ve been blogging, it’s been hard to engage serious interest in this tool that they have commonly [...]

Shel Israel’s new tv show about the “latest-greatest” with the social web has started. His first show is with Intel and its top guns. They talk about the web and how it will be more useful for individual use.
Israel and Robert Scoble wrote the definitive book–Naked Conversations– on how blogs are changing the [...]