[Note: Another brilliant Guest Post from our unofficial 4th Geek, Laura Walters] LinkedIn has become the most popular of the professionally focused social media sites, and therefore a goldmine for various competitive intelligence tidbits, sometimes disclosed inadvertently. What I particularly love about LinkedIn is the web you begin to detect between contacts and their
Social Networking: It's All About Relationships
Today, it was proved to me, once again, that social media works.
About nine months ago, Greg–my co-conspirator and co-blogger in crime–started following me on Twitter. Then he met a bunch of folks online and he passed on my Twitter handle to a bunch of his friends.
So I started following Greg’s friends that followed
Has ‘IT’ Killed ‘KM’?
I’ve commented in the past about how I think that Knowledge Management (KM) has become so overwhelmed with technology products that the individuals in KM have become ‘tech support’ rather than knowledge managers. Yesterday, I read two different articles that reinforced my conception of what I think is a major flaw in the idea of
Review of Headshift's Penny Edwards' "Social Networking for the Legal Profession"
Although I follow a number of blogs dealing with the topics of law and technology, I would have to admit that one of the best out there is the Headshift Blog. Their byline of “smarter, simpler, social” hits a chord with me and it is one of those types of blogs where you tend
Twitter's "TWawful TWednsday"- The Internet's Version of Larry the Cable Guy?
One of my favorite lines from the Roast of Larry the Cable Guy came from Greg Giraldo when he asked “How the #*^% are you so popular???” There are a lot of folks out there asking the same thing about Twitter. Especially after, as one blogger put it, “Twitter’s Spectacularly Awful 24
Does Web 2.0 Dilute a Presenter's Message?
While monitoring Canada’s LegalIT 3.0 conference, I noticed something — I’ve seen all of this before.
Let me start from the beginning…
I’m a conference “lurker”. By this, I mean that I try to find out what’s being said at conferences that I’m not physically attending. I’m able to do this because those people that
Ashton Kutcher v. CNN: Social Media Lessons from Celebritude
I am in awe of Ashton Kutcher.
Ok, yeah, he’s cute. I admit it; I was charmed by his dopey good looks in That ’70s Show.
But after watching the 31-year old Ashton Kutcher on Twitter and the sway he has, I now believe that man is a marketing genius.
Yet another very
BioTweeps – Biography Searching Hints and Tricks for Twitter
“Social” – (adjective) seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; friendly; sociable; gregarious.
“Networking” – (noun) A supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately on how to search the biographical information of people on Twitter.
Here are a couple
Skittles, Social Media and Conferences…. Time to Put the Attendee to Work for You!!
By now, you’ve probably seen the new social media experiment that is Skittles.com
Although the site developed by Agency.com is still a little rough around the edges, this experiment is widely viewed as a social media success story because it allows the user to interact with the product, thus producing a way for the end-user
KM 1984
I came across this PC World article highlighting Google’s Latitude. The title, “Spy on Your Workers,” caught my eye so I checked it out. It explores this new offering and some implications it may bring.
Since KM is about capturing knowledge and then making it easily accessible, Latitude falls squarely on the KM dime.