Q&A: Who Do I Follow For Business Twitter
By Tim Berry
(Note: This is my post from smbplans.com, where I posted it yesterday. I was asked to repost it here.) Here’s another good question I received from my Ask-me form on my Timberry.com website: If I’m trying to build my Twitter presence to support my [omitted] business, who should I follow? How do I find them?... Read More »
The So-Called Arrogance of Gen Y Social Media Managers
By Tim Berry
Last Friday NextGen Journal published Cathryn Sloane’s Why Every Social Media Manager Should be Under 25. Her main point was: We spent our adolescence growing up with social media. … we learned to use social media socially before professionally, rather than vice versa or simultaneously. To many people in the generations above us, Facebook and Twitter... Read More »
10 Signs You’re Too Deep in Social Media
By Tim Berry
Lists like these are fun, and, by the way, I’ve been told that lists of 3, 5, and 10 are particularly good as blog headlines. My title here is taken directly from Rohit Bhargava’s 10 Signs You May Have An Unhealthy Relationship With Social Media on his Influential Marketing Blog. Here’s the complete list: You receive... Read More »
Whoops! New PR, New World
By Tim Berry
Oh dear. Those nasty activists. It looked at first like PR gone bad. me thinking it was dumb of Shell Oil to send a press release huffing and puffing about “activists” making fun of it. It looked like a press release. Curse you, activists! And like that. Shell is supposedly considering suing. The press release says:... Read More »
Rebelmouse: New Social Media Curation Site
By Tim Berry
(Note: this 2013 post is out of date. Rebelmouse is still going strong, but its pricing and feature sets have changed substantially.) Please join me in congratulating Andrea Breanna on today’s launch of RebelMouse. Jay Yarow just called it “a combination of the biggest social publishing platforms on the web” in his post about it... Read More »
25 Ways to Look Dumb on Twitter
By Tim Berry
There was an interesting post on the Constant Contact blog over the weekend: 25 Things That Make You Look Dumb on Twitter. Some of my favorites: Too much self promotion Automatic direct messages Spelling errors Special mention for “tweeting without a strategy:” Never tweet just for the sake of tweeting. Take some time to decide why... Read More »
Facebook Needs at Least One Woman on Its Board
By Tim Berry
(Note: I posted this earlier today on the Huffington Post. I’m reposting it here because this is my main blog, and I believe what I wrote, so I want it here too.) Why would a startup as important as Facebook, run by somebody as young as Mark Zuckerberg, whose users are more than 50 percent... Read More »
Social Media is Littered with Business Carcasses
By Tim Berry
It occurs to me that the social media landscape is littered with the carcasses of failed business efforts. There are blogs that started, had some posts, then stopped. Twitter accounts that tweeted for a while and then stopped. Facebook accounts that never get updated. The accounts stay there, visible, abandoned, but dead. Like carcasses. And... Read More »
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