Just about an hour ago, I was thinking about reaching out to Robert Scoble, who is a true star of social media and one of the first people to get me interested in blogging (which was perhaps the first ’social media’ tool available) at the Blog Business Summit held in Seattle in 2006. I wanted [...]
The Story of Joe "The Connector" Kennedy's Job Search Thru Social Media
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I Just Applied as Senior Social Media Manager at Behringer
Since I launched my personal social media campaign to find my next opportunity last month, I have actually only applied for a few select positions. Although I have had a lot of great referrals and recommendations for my work in social media and community building, I am going to start being more active in looking [...]
Help Me Help Overlake Service League
I’m happy to report that I’ve signed on to help Overlake Service League with their social media marketing and you can help me help OSL.
Overlake Service League has been helping children and families in Bellevue for 99 years! They do a lot of great work – including feeding the hungry, giving scholarships to deserving people, [...]
30 Days Into Personal Social Media Campaign to Find an Opportunity
My personal social media campaign to find my next opportunity began 30 days ago. It has evolved quite a bit over the past month – helped me make some big decisions, some new contacts and had some great successes. One thing that is very strange to me is that more people are not using social [...]
Social Media 201 Conference Getting Noticed
The Social Media 201 Conference I’m involved in organizing is really getting some notice. The official press release was sent out a couple of days ago and the results have been pretty good.
Nearing Completion on a Couple of Projects
This morning Seattle Business Consultant and radio personality, Pam Hoelzle announced her new website at PamHoelzle.com. It is a site that I built her using WordPress and the Daily Edition theme from Woo Themes (affiliate link). The carousel with featured posts was a little hard to work with, but I’m happy with how that worked [...]
Are Twitter Users Being Censored or ‘Muted’?
On a call this morning with speakers from the Social Media 201 conference, a concern was brought up that some user accounts with large numbers of followers have been suspended from Twitter for no apparent reason. Evidently still more users have been “muted” so that their posts don’t show up. Is Twitter censoring it’s members? [...]
Thankful Thursday
Despite whatever challenges we each have to face, each of us usually have a lot we can be thankful for. I’m no exception – I have a lot to be thankful for and want to acknowledge some of it this fine Thursday morning.
I’m thankful for Maya Bisneer, Jeris Miller and Mike Whitmore who have recently [...]
Fotobabble’s Talking Photos Bring Images to Life
Announced today, Fotobabble allows people to add voice to photos in seconds with just a few clicks on a web browser or an iPhone. Whether you want to add your voice to a photo stored on your computer, or on one just snapped with your iPhone, Fotobabble brings images to life that can be shared [...]
Five Things You Can Do to Help
Now that I have greatly narrowed my focus to looking for an opportunity as a community builder and evangelist, there are some things you can do to help if you are so inclined.
1) Please let me know if you hear about any opportunities that might be a fit.
2) Check out PearlTrees.com – sign up, play [...]
