I’ve used the image of the Jury Room in Columbus, Ohio in presentations about social media for years. The point I made usually went something along these lines: This is a pub that sits across the street from the courthouse in Columbus. It’s been there since 1831. Once upon a time, if you wanted to…
I posted this photo to Facebook yesterday, as I worked from the hotel to try and get up to speed with this new job. A friend left a sarcastic comment about the glamorous life of traveling for work. It got me thinking. If you have never had the kind of job that requires a lot…
Since I’ve recently seen a couple of Facebook friends mentioning the fact that they’ve gotten unsolicited phone calls claiming that their computer was at risk, and infected with malware, I thought I’d go ahead and make a public service announcement about it. Do not give out any personal information, or download software that allows…
As if we needed another reminder that Facebook, and the like, is where all conversations are happening on the internet, I recently updated the Social plugin from Mailchimp across my blogs and noticed something different. Where there used to be a limit on the number of characters when broadcasting a post to Facebook, suddenly it…
In my never ending quest to explore, experiment and gain experience with getting my content in front of users on their favorite social media platforms, you may recall that I created a Tumblr blog. The initial account, and the main blog, started out as a blog about sports, which quickly got moved over to what…
In the wake of Robin Williams death earlier this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how different people reacted, what they said on social media and this Freakonomics podcast about suicide. The question I keep coming back to is this. If there is a demonstrable increase in the number of suicides after one well-publicized…