by Laura Creekmore | Mar 31, 2009 | Strategy
I had drinks last night with some old friends. It’s always nice to catch up, but one of the great benefits of this particular group is how much they make me contemplate ideas. We all worked together almost 10 years ago now at SmallBusiness.com, back when it was...
by Laura Creekmore | Feb 26, 2009 | Social media, Strategy
I was scanning Twitter this a.m. to catch up on the world and I ran across a link to Mike Moran’s interview with Paul Gillin about how corporations are using social media well, and how they’re using it poorly. The interview is a great, quick read that I...
by Laura Creekmore | Jan 18, 2009 | Blogging, Social media, Strategy
Great post today from Mitch Joel on building community around your content. If you’re not in the social media sphere, though, that sentence alone sounds like inside baseball. Let me see if I can translate myself into plain English. Whatever your organization,...
by Laura Creekmore | Jan 8, 2009 | Facebook, Social media, Strategy
Chris Brogan has an interesting blog post where he wonders how to fix his Facebook dilemma: There’s a cap of 5,000 friends on Facebook, and he’s close to it. He’s wondering about the best way to stay in touch with both his friends and his fans, and...
by Laura Creekmore | Jan 5, 2009 | Social media, Strategy
You know at year-end, everyone loves to compile their best-of lists. Even I sucuumbed with a New-Year’s type post a few days ago, despite my typical aversion to resolutions and best-of lists. As I’ve seen a number of these items in the past couple of...
by Laura Creekmore | Dec 27, 2008 | Social media, Strategy
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. So many of us tend to put off the things we should be doing anyway — working out, eating better, managing our inboxes [PDF from Good Experience] — and wrap it into a once-a-year extravaganza in January....
