Help me Wow them at WTF, South Africa
I will be taking a double red eye to South Africa to speak at a conference called WTF at the University of Technology, Capetown campus. Yes, the letters stand for what you think they stand for. I...
View ArticleHow Dell Just Braided with a few Journalists
I’ve written about braided journalism, my concept that traditional and citizen journalists have started to intertwine through mutual need. Take that thought and add to it Tom Foremski’s recurring theme...
View ArticleCape Town & Good Hope
My first thought is that Cape Town is a dramatically beautiful place, a glistening thriving city cloistered between dramatic mountains and two oceans, one green, and the other blue. My second thought...
View ArticleDistrict 9 was a movie. District 6 is real.
[Note. I am just catching up on posting travel notes from my recent speaking tour. This is my last post on Cape Town. It has nothing to do with Social Media. It has much to do with social segregation...
View ArticleRestarting my SM Global Report. Got a story for me?
I have an assortment of activities I do related to social media–writing, consulting, speaking and seemingly endless tweeting. The spine of all these activities has been my Social Media Global Report....
View ArticleGift of the Hippies
The rains keep falling and the Santa Rosa radio station keeps pumping up the most memorable music of the 60s. I cannot help but feel reflective in my new home as the year ends. My workload is light and...
View ArticleI’m writing for OPEN Forum & I need your help.
I am the son and brother of small business people. I ran my own PR shop for 17 years. I have been passionate about small business since long before there was a media to get social through. Today, I...
View ArticleA Slow News Day in August 1947
AUGUST 2, 1947, NEW YORK, NY– It was a slow news day. I was facing yet another deadline and my mind was as blank as the sheet of paper I had inserted into my trusty old Underwood typewriter. Outside,...
View Article12 Tips for giving great presentations
In the next few weeks I’ll be talking to a group of Spanish entrepreneurs in San Francisco at a StepOne event and then participating in Nasscom, India’s largest startup conference. In both cases, I’ve...
View ArticleWhat I cover for @OpenForum
I write a regular column for OpenForum, the American Express small business community forum. I am always interested in story leads from small businesses, companies targeting small businesses, or their...
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