I’m pretty darn excited to be heading to SXSW Interactive with Nokia this year, and I’ve been busy getting all scheduled up with our team of Nokians. Adventures on tap: a couple of great nights in the VIP lounge, panels galore, and even slinging some ice cream with Ice Cream Man. I’ll be posting updates and photos here and via Twitter. See ya soon, Austin!
(This is a guest post I contributed to the Design Rangers Camp Blog. Posting it here for your reading/marketing enjoyment!)
Linkedin has become a powerful tool for professionals looking to network and find career opportunities as well as companies looking for talent. Linkedin also provides some unique tools that can be particularly effective for small business marketing.
I recently wrote a guest post for the Design Rangers Camp Blog on how to blog for your small business (and why blogging is still important in the age of Facebook and Twitter).
Here’s the link for blogging tips and tricks.
Happy blogging!
[I contributed the following post the Design Rangers Camp Blog, the virtual outpost for my favorite field guides to the creative world. I'm cross-posting it here for you to enjoy!]
As you reflect on your marketing efforts in 2009 and prepare for 2010, it’s easy to focus on what you accomplished (or didn’t) and what kinds of strategies will meet your needs going forward. But before you design a plan that’s all about YOU, remember that no marketing will work unless you put your customers first.
Ask yourself the following question: how often do you listen to your customers? ok
One of the reasons I enjoy Twitter (and microblogging on sites like Facebook) so much is that it captures small moments in time, records compelling pieces of insight, and provides an efficient opportunity to share a wide variety of things I consider important (for personal, professional and political reasons). I find it immensely satisfying to read these tweets, posts and updates as meandering narratives of our days.
But it’s also insightful to reflect on the patterns of our microblogging, and to see what (if anything) is illuminated by them. So at the end of this long and mostly unplugged holiday weekend, I generated a Tweetcloud based on language analysis of my Twitter posts for this past year. As a reflection of what I hope I’m contributing to the social universe, it’s both cheerful and motivating.
Hooray!
Here’s the link.
