But Can We Trust the Trust Agents?
By Tim Berry
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... Read More »
The Landrush Problem in Social Media
By Tim Berry
I’m engaged in an email discussion that’s getting heated now and seemed relatively simple when it started. At the heart of the problem is what I call the landrush problem in social media. I refer to the Oklahoma landrush. You might know the history. There were several movies based on it. On April 22, 1889,... Read More »
Twitter As Big Brother and Sports Celebrity as Intoxication
By Tim Berry
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... Read More »
Facebook Disaster: Don’t Bother Coming In Tomorrow
By Tim Berry
I’ve had a run-in on this before, including this one on the Huffington Post that got a lot of comments … but still, look at this delightful post from thenextweb.com: Author Zee, editor in chief at thenextweb.com, titled it: “Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss and then bitch about the job.” After all, what... Read More »
Does Twitter Matter? Can It Possibly Last?
By Tim Berry
Yes, I think it does matter. And no, although it won’t last, not like it is now, it is the beginning of something that will last, but will be changing a lot. I could say the same about personal computing, the Web, and blogging. Twitter is all the rage because it hit fertile ground. People... Read More »
GDGT: No, Please, Not Another Social Media Site!
By Tim Berry
I read it last weekend on the New York Times website. It’s about a new gadget site to be called GDGT starting this week, developed by founders of other gadget site successes. Get this: Their new site, called GDGT, will open to visitors on Wednesday. It differs from Engadget or Gizmodo by aspiring to be... Read More »
Big Brother vs. Social Media vs. Basil Fawlty
By Tim Berry
(Note: I posted this first on Huffington Post, and I’m reposting here because this is my main blog. Tim) Secret cameras, secret Web utilities tracking employees’ Web use, secret phone recording and IM monitoring: that’s creepy. That’s BIG BROTHER: the Orwellian 1984 nightmare. But bosses reading your tweets and Facebook? What’s creepy about that isn’t... Read More »
Boomer Business Blogger Part 4: You Have to Like Writing
By Tim Berry
True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood. I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost... Read More »
Boomer Business Blogger Part 3: Is It Good Business?
By Tim Berry
A nice person almost apologized to me for not having her business on Facebook. I said: “but why?” Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of that “social media stuff” may or may not be good business. But not just for its own sake. It has to be part of a strategy. Otherwise, it may... Read More »
Boomer Business Blogger Part 2: It’s A Full-time Job
By Tim Berry
Benjamin Floyd of Read Click Done asked me after yesterday’s post: “how do you do it?” Two books, 1400 or so posts, 1300 or so tweets in the last two years. “Where do you find the time.” Fair question. Reminds me of Bob Sutton’s Really, I Write it Myself. So do I. Bob thanks his... Read More »
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