From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Twitter vulnerability: beware unknown followers

08.31.2009

One of our SAS cybersleuths just notified me that some good guys have identified a vulnerability in Twitter that could allow the bad guys to take over your Twitter account, and all you’d have to do to allow it is view a tweet. Maybe you read about it at Techcrunch. Twitter is apparently working to [...]

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What's your dirty little secret?

08.30.2009

I just read a great post from David Armano called “Social Media’s Top 10 Dirty Little Secrets,” pointing out some of the things many of us are thinking but not saying. I, for one, am getting tired of the social media fishbowl where “experts” share their opinions on the necessity of cutting edge tools and [...]

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Notes from the B2B social media panel at SocialFresh

08.24.2009

I’m in Charlotte, NC today for the Social Fresh social media conference. I’m on the Social Media B2B panel with Nathan Gilliatt and Jeff Cohen, moderated by Kipp Bodnar. When we met a few weeks ago, we decided we wanted to share stories, engage the audience and interact with them, so we decided not to [...]

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Hey! I’m inside the firetruck!

08.23.2009

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any cooler…

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Thanks, Carrboro FD

08.23.2009

Seriously, as though putting out fires wasn’t enough, they go out of their way to be nice to kids.

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Firetruck!

08.23.2009

For a kid who loves buttons, knobs and trucks, this is pretty overwhelming.

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Five steps for getting started on Twitter

08.21.2009

I got a lot of positive comments on my Four Step Plan for Getting Started in Social Media. It reminded me that people are at all different levels of knowledge and interest in social media. When you spend all day thinking about it and using it, it’s easy to forget that lots of people still [...]

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Four-step plan for getting started in social media

08.19.2009

Because of my job as social media manager at SAS, a lot of people ask me how to get started in social media. I’m working on several different resources to help our sales, marketing and communications folks understand how to integrate social media into their activities and provide bottom-line value. Some are done, some will [...]

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