Sorry, Twitter friends, but I need to network with more important people. It’s not that I don’t like you. Really. You’ve all been so fun and informative. Unfortunately, your Klout scores are dragging me down. Apparently, the new algorithm changes on Klout take into account not only what I do in my social networks, but …
Category Archive: Social Media
Oct
27
Oct
11
How to ruin your business by not knowing when to shut up.
You know who Ken Evoy is, right? Of course you don’t. I didn’t either. Basically, Ken is the online equivalent of one of those “make money from home” guys you see on TV — the infomercial guys with offers that sound too good to be true. He offers a service called Site Build It, which …
Sep
14
There really are no rock stars in social media.
I’m about to break your heart, and I don’t even care. It’s for your own good. I’m enthralled lately by all the discussion around Chris Brogan’s decision to unfollow all 131,000 people he was following on Twitter. It’s mind-numbing. Seriously. Just the comments on the blog post he wrote about it drive me crazy. And …
Jun
20
Fun with spam
I get a lot of spam. A lot. And sometimes, well…I can’t help but answer it. This one made me chuckle. From: Douglas Wild Subject: LOVELL:URGENT RESPONSE. ATTN:LOVELL, I am a Trustee and Executor of the estate of a deceased client(Dr P.LOVELL) in Budapest, Hungary. I have sat on a 5 year forgotten financial inheritance. …
May
27
Hijacked! (Or, why you shouldn’t use your personal Twitter account for work)
Let’s say you love your job. And let’s say you’ve got a whole bunch of Twitter followers, and you want to tell them about the new and exciting things happening at your job. It’s only natural to tweet whatever news you have to the public to spread the word. Recently I’ve noticed a surprising number …