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Social Media Means People and, Eventually, Maybe, Friends

by Tim Berry on November 20, 2009

in Social media

It was one of those sudden-realization moments for me.
I was talking to one of my favorite lawyers last night at a local startups event (smartups.org). He mentioned a person I’d sent to him a couple weeks ago. That person had asked me to recommend a small business lawyer, and I recommended him.
The realization was that [...]

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The Joy of User Revolts

by Tim Berry on November 4, 2009

in Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs

It’s not that surprising, really; and we’ve seen it before with Facebook. When Twitter released a new feature, and it’s users didn’t like it, they had to change it back.
The Wired Magazine online story is Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter. I found it interesting reading.
For the same kind of thing in Facebook, [...]

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5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Office Work Day

by Tim Berry on October 30, 2009

in Personal Productivity, Work Life Balance

It’s one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn’t going well, you couldn’t sleep last night, you’ve run into a writer’s block or thinker’s block or city block. Maybe you just lost a client. Or learned about a powerful new competitor. Or maybe it’s simply just a bad day. It [...]

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5 Kinds of Trolls Hiding Under Business Bridges

by Tim Berry on October 28, 2009

in Business Ethics, Business Stories, Social media

You could call this post the taxonomy of trolls. I thought there were fairy-tale creatures, ugly and mean, living under a bridge, interfering with innocent travelers. It turns out, though, they’re real. Just like in the three billy goats gruff fairy tale, they are hiding along the way, jumping out to cause trouble.
I like [...]

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On Twitter, A/B Analysis, and the Art of Headlines

by Tim Berry on October 27, 2009

in Blogs and blogging, Journalism, Web/Tech, Weblogs

Do you like my headline here, on this post? Can you write a better one?
Headlines are critical. I’ve noted that, with some frustration (I’m not so good at headlines) on this blog before, here.
Headlines come up today because being in New York last week to  judge the Forbes.com business plan contest gave me a chance [...]

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But Can We Trust the Trust Agents?

by Tim Berry on September 22, 2009

in Social media, Weblogs, Writing

I was just getting back to the office yesterday, a Monday morning after a week away – 4 days of business, and 3 relaxing and invigorating days in Yosemite, which is really away — when Dan Levine (@schoolmarketer on Twitter) suggested I read The social media country club on Mark Shaeffer’s businessgrow blog.

Yes, I’m a sucker for contrary points of [...]

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Help! One of Me, Dozens of Social Media Sites

by Tim Berry on September 17, 2009

in Social media

I posted here yesterday about the landrush problem of social media, which is my phrase for what happens when user feedback systems are subverted by vendors seeding reviews.
Another social media trend that worries me is the proliferation of sites. How do I deal with all the different sites I’d like to join?

Currently, for me it’s [...]

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Twitter As Big Brother and Sports Celebrity as Intoxication

by Tim Berry on September 9, 2009

in Current Affairs, Social media, Web/Tech, Weblogs

This post isn’t about the football star who punched an opponent; it’s about sportsmanship in general, sports business as oxymoron, twitter, YouTube, millions of dollars, and the impact of the ultimate big brother.
The ultimate big brother in this story is a lot like George Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother, but without the malice. He’s just [...]

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Can You Do It: Business Pitch in 140 Characters

by Tim Berry on August 19, 2009

in Weblogs

Brevity is good. Brevity for business pitches is good too. The idea of pitching a new business in a single 140-character tweet (pardon the expression) is intriguing to me. Do you think you could do that?
Celebrity entrepreneur Richard Branson is pitching a Twitter pitch contest as part of a startup training program he’s involved in.
That [...]

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2 Pictures, 200 Words, Lots of Ideas.

by Tim Berry on August 10, 2009

in Business Research, Creativity, Technology, Twitter, Web/Tech

Pictures, words, ideas. If one picture equals 1,000 words, how many ideas does it generate? Is there a transitive property there? I had time over the weekend to pick up two unrelated pictures. Each covers something entirely different. Both are full of ideas.
The first, a chart by Seth Godin:
This is one of those things that [...]

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