Social Media Advice for Brands

Yesterday the State of the Net conference took place in Washington, DC.  The focus of the event is on technology policy in the U.S. and covers an array of topics related to the Internet.  One of the sessions this year was entitled “Social Media in Tech Policy” (hooray to government for even recognizing the issue!) [...]

Using Social Media for Good

For anyone on Twitter today, the message is clear: #HELPHAITI.
I logged in expecting to see a few tweets about the tragic earthquake and was immediately taken aback that #HelpHaiti and #TextYele and #Port-Au-Prince and #RedCross are all trending topics. This, this, is where the power of social media really shines through. My heart was [...]

Social Media New Year Resolutions

I was reading this article by Jason Bakker of Campus Media Group about 2010 Social Media New Year Resolutions on YPulse and was inspired by this resolution of his in particular:

I will become a power user. Our friend [and Ypulse Youth Advisory Board Member] Libby Issendorf has challenged us to choose one new social network [...]

Identity Crisis

I’m having a bit of an identity crisis. And it’s not the kind you think. You see, I have an online identity separate from my IRL identity. It all started when I first began blogging and chose to blog under an alias for a variety of reasons: to protect my family, to avoid embarrassment, to [...]