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Social media douchebaggery
Image by djfoobarmatt via Flickr If you’re a douchebag in real life, guess what? You’re an even bigger douchebag online because social media amplifies who you are. You could be a real, genuine human being making an effort to be useful to others. Or you could be an anonymous troll whose only purpose appears to [...]
FREE Workshop: Activate Your Super Powers – The Social Media Utility Belt
Image by Gare and Kitty via Flickr This coming Wednesday, January 27, 2010, I will be giving a free workshop as part of the Northern Kentucky One Stop‘s Career Achievement Network (CAN) monthly series. The title of the session is “Activate Your Super Powers: The Social Media Utility Belt”. Sign up here. Some basic themes [...]
Strategies for managing your online presence
I’ve been a part of an interesting discussion on Facebook recently about where to draw the line between personal and business use of social media, and it prompted me to share these thoughts about strategies for managing an online presence.
How I’m Using Twitter
Part 1 of… several, maybe. So, if you’ve read this blog via danieljohnsonjr.com or have noticed these articles posted elsewhere, you know I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I thought I’d drop in here directly to share how I’ve been using Twitter on this blog. I use a WordPress plug-in called Twitter Tools [...]
Why the Enquirer moderates comments
Image via Wikipedia On my way into work this morning, I heard a podcasted interview David Bowman from LUCRUM had with Pat Crowley from the Enquirer. They talked about some of the ways an “old media” organization like the Enquirer is adapting to changes in how people are getting their news. Pat talked about why [...]
On the moves to WordPress
About a month and a half ago, I announced that I was making the move from Blogger to WordPress. It’s taken some time, but I think I’m getting the hang of this blog migration thing. Moving a blog with lots of content I have even moved my oldest and one of my largest blogs, Journey [...]
Utterz from the Road – Making your own opportunities
Mobile post sent by danieljohnsonjr using Utterz. Replies. mp3
My Virtual Business Card
Rather than try to shove a boatload of information onto a tiny piece of cardboard and paper, I’m taking a feather out of Christopher Penn‘s cap and putting it here instead. If you’ve received a card of mine, this is the page should find. It’s all the stuff I wanted to shove on the card. [...]
Open-ended questions about my blogging approach
While driving into work this morning, I began thinking about how I’m using this blog and blogging in general. I came up with some open-ended questions for myself, none of which I’m able yet to answer. What ways can I merge my social media/new media passion with my job as a SQL developer into a [...]
How do you draw the line between effective promotion and spam?
This is a question I’ve asked my LinkedIn network, and I also ask here: How do you draw the line between effective promotion and spam? When marketing a brand or doing some other type of publicity for someone or something, there are effective ways to promote, and there are not so effective ways. How do [...]
