Comments on: Social Media: Your Interactive Information Resource

By: Patricia Beck

Patricia Beck — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:07:44 +0000

Social media and blogging is the direction many business owners are going to network with others around the world. I couldn't agree more with you, it promotes two way communication unlike any other type of media. There are so many social networks out there which can easily overwhelm someone!

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:48:13 +0000

Tom, If you get the chance, you should go. Someone was watching that movie in our briefing room on the boat so I caught about the last third. It was wild seeing things onscreen that we'd just seen in reality. David, While one could certainly abuse that technique, I can see it being used in a pretty above board manner. I'm glad to hear it's working for you, that's a pretty big increase!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:04:06 +0000

I wouldn't describe the funnel web technique as particularly whitehat, although you're right, I don't deliberately link to anything most people would call dodgy, I think this SEO technique is grayhat, but could be darkened depending on the approach one takes with it. Before I saw this post, I'd created some experimental funnel type pages that have been getting great traffic and since that time my average feedcount has leaped from around 2800 to 3500

By: TomG

TomG — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:36:43 +0000

Heidi, glad to see you back! I just watched Master and Commander again. I would love to make it to that island

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:11:43 +0000

Thanks Dave & Adam. Kyle, I suspected Brad had something to do with the video. It turned out very well, a nice change from the usual, and thus why I Dugg and Stumbled it. Very good point about the spam. It's fine to promote one's own stuff. I think we all do that, I for example, Twittered this blog entry. But it has to be part of the mix, preferably the minority part of the mix. The Galápagos Islands were amazing. It's impossible to describe the abundance of wildlife. Yet I'm going to try. I'll be blogging about it at http://blog.case.edu/hac4/.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Galápagos Islands that sounds awesome! It is definitely important to choose your friends on social networks wisely because there are a lot of people out there who will spam you with requests with only self promotion in mind and it can be difficult to fully filter sometimes. Also don't know if you put it together but the Butler Blue video was one that Brad put together for an interesting campaign. I'll let him fill you in on the interesting details around the campaign.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:57:52 +0000

Listening and sharing (and I would add) and discarding some of the information - is what makes social media so great. There are too many sources to listen to...

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:01:41 +0000

Well said. The Art of Conversation - listening and sharing both - is what makes social media so great.