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Twitter: Marketing Tool or Public Relations Godsend?

I’ve seen a few articles cropping up this afternoon about how a recent WebTrends survey shows that only 2% of companies use Twitter as a marketing tool. Personally, I’m surprised the number is that high.
When you look at it, Twitter is a social media application. By definition  the term “social media” generally refers to [...]

6 Tips to Ease Your Twension with Twitter

There’s been a lot of talk in the last several weeks about Twitter. Seems like everyone and their dog is on it now, and it has become a media darling with reports of celebrities such as Britney Spears and Shaquille O’Neal now joining the “Twitterati” (though the former is allegedly updating via a ghost writer [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog Lesson 1 – the Elevator Pitch

With this blog I am striving to be a Social Media Apologist, but in a good way. That means I will be writing about social media but not in the vein of Scoble or Jarvis who, at times, teeter on giddy adoration. Instead, I intend to discuss social media from the layman’s perspective – I’m [...]

How to Tweet Like a Pro

I had an interesting discussion with a colleague earlier today (that’s you @CT_Will). We were talking about Twitter and its uses and how it would factor into an evolving social media strategy the company I work for is fostering. The discussion took a bit of a turn when he mentioned how he, though using [...]

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds…


A year or so ago I wrote a post about how I felt that Twitter = the Devil. In that post I briefly lamented how, if things kept going the way they were (these were the heady days of “Web 2.0” don’t forget), that my children would never get to experience an actual library – [...]