Part of my job is to manage a handful of company brand pages, some more successful than others due to the demographic of the readership. As I work with Facebook brand pages all day, it has become very obvious to me that the majority of brand / fan pages are clueless when it comes to attracting more fans effectively and [...]
I manage six different Twitter accounts. While that may seem like an overload of tweets, it’s actually quite simple. Five are related to the websites I help manage. (In all fairness, I can’t lay claim to the nickname inception of Twitmaster General. It was coined by a couple guys at work in jest to all the Twitter accounts.)
I use several [...]
Are you familiar with Ping.fm? It’s a service that allows you to update all your social networks with one click of a mouse. I thought this was a brilliant idea when I signed up a year ago, but it’s becoming more evident each day that my “lifestream” is molded differently for every social network I belong to. Occasionally there’s a [...]
30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.
Today, I [...]
I rarely post about politics, but something intriguing on the campaign front caught my eye today. A presidential candidate is advertising in Burnout Revenge. For those unfamiliar, Burnout Revenge is a car-racing video game owned by Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts sells ad space on digital billboards within the game. When gamers hop online to play a little Burnout [...]
I discovered TweetDeck yesterday. The design is ridiculously productive, yet the web keyword feature can easily suck away hours of your life. I watched the iPhone feed and started firing off helpful replies incessantly. The outcome is another handful of Twitter followers. It’s a fantastic tool to find Twitter users with similar interests. It’s not bad for local connections, but [...]
I took Chris Brogan’s advice today and beefed up my LinkedIn page a bit. I added a bit of a summary and linked out to the RSS feed on this blog. I also wrote a recommendation for a fellow writer. I’ve really started to notice an increase in networking lately and I’m attributing it to LinkedIn, especially after adding so [...]
