The auto-retweet button on Twitter could be killing the very thing that Twitter is known for — commentary and an open interchange of ideas.  (more…)

This week I’ve been busy putting together various marketing plans for 2010.  My simple nine-step action plan for increasing PageRank for one site is a lot more work than it sounds like.  Can you spot the steps that will require practically full-time resources?  Morale of the story: SEO, it’s real work. (more…)

This week Jeff Cutler (@jeffcutler) and Christine Koh (@bostonmamas) were the oh-so-gracious hosts for the Boston #fordtaurus Tweetup (see the new Ford Taurus SHO and drive it!)  The local event was part of a grand tour (The Summer of Taurus) for the new cars, pairing the vehicles in different cities with local Twitterati/bloggers and a (semi-random) Ford executive.  (Boston’s event brought Corporate Counsel David Leitch out from Detroit.)  There were lots of interesting PR, Social Media, events and business lessons to be picked up from the Ford event.  Here are just a few:

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I was reading Chris Brogan’s Blog — always highly recommended — and one of his recent posts, Quid Pro No, got me thinking about how some social networking websites are un-naturally inflating their user numbers by creating an environment where reciprocal friending is de rigueur.  Everything from address scraping to spammy auto-tweeting when your friends sign up, to old-fashioned guilt is used to get you to sign-up for sites you never intend to visit again. (more…)

Except they aren’t really strangers.  I “know” them from social media. (more…)

I have a deep and abiding sense of deja vu.  I’ve been here before. Today, it’s Twitter; in 1994, it was the Web. (more…)

I’m now further sub-dividing my time on this planet and I have to blame it all on being a bad board member. (more…)