Curation is the New Creation
By Tim Berry
I think it was inevitable. First, the web, then blogs. Content is king. Then Facebook, and then Twitter, and social media is real. Long live the king. The king is dead. We’re gagging on all the content. We need curation. We need to gather and collect — call that curate — our favorite content. The... Read More »
Are Business Social Media Campaigns About Listening?
By Tim Berry
Brian Solis, author of Engage, expert on social media for business, posted The End of Social Media 1.0 last week on his blog. Not that there is a 2.0 or 3.0 exactly, he explains, but he says we’re at an inflection point. … the end of an era of social media that will force the... Read More »
Does it Take a Social Media Code of Ethics or is it Plain Obvious?
By Tim Berry
This is the complete unedited text of an email I received last week. It’s just the latest one. I get a lot of them. Hi Tim, I was wondering if you took paid guest posts on your site? Not a traditional “guest post” but one you’d be compensated for and have complete editorial control over.... Read More »
Is Marketing Dead?
By Tim Berry
I’m troubled. Some of the smartest, most successful people I know say marketing is dead. It doesn’t matter, they say. It’s a waste of time. Instead… … just build great product. Disrupt a big market. The buzz will follow. And it makes some sense. Did Facebook care about marketing, or product? What about Twitter? Amazon.com?... Read More »
New Game: Social Media Snooping vs. Social Media Cleansing
By Tim Berry
The other shoe dropping: Business Insider posted This Company Will Expose All Your Most Embarrassing Online Moments a few days ago. It’s about a service company that helps employers by doing a social-media online background check on a potential employee. It was more than two years ago that I first saw a business plan for... Read More »
A Few Good Posts for a Friday
By Tim Berry
These are some posts I recommended reading this week. My absolute favorite this week was Mark Suster’s 9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month, on TechCrunch. Mark’s Both Sides of the Table is a great blog, by the way. And this is the thought at the heart of that post: Over funding often... Read More »
My Recommendation About Your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
By Tim Berry
A couple of weeks ago I was in a classroom full of entrepreneurial MBA students, as a guest speaker, answering their questions about me and Palo Alto Software and bplans.com, this blog, and so forth. When they asked me how I managed my online self in social media, my response went something like this: I... Read More »
Case Study: Vizme, Adaptation, and Living with Facebook
By Tim Berry
(Update 2014: Vizme didn’t make it. Its founders went on to other things. In the end, it’s another interesting technology that didn’t have the right combination of marketing, sweet spot problem and solution, traction, work, and luck) I’ve been watching vizme.com since I first saw the demo about a year ago. It struck me as... Read More »
Social Media Business Reality Check
By Tim Berry
I took a one-hour flight over the weekend and ended up talking to a smart business owner — she has a bakery in a small town in Oregon — who doesn’t have any Web presence. What’s really cool is that her business, as she described it, is doing just fine. She makes a good living,... Read More »
An Older Entrepreneur’s 10 Takeaways from the Facebook Movie
By Tim Berry
I saw The Social Network last Friday night, and enjoyed it thoroughly. When it was over I was surprised. “What? Two hours already?” Here are 10 (mental) notes I took as I watched: This movie is fun. Aaron Sorkin (of West Wing and Studio 60) does a great job making entertainment from reality. The plot... Read More »
By 
