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Why do I participate so fully in social media? Here’s a start:

Recently I read through a negative exchange on Google+ that reminded me that I need to write this blog post. The online dialogue was between two prominent tech personalities that were slinging a lot of mud at each other. The exchange led to name-calling, personal slights, bashing, and a huge list of comments from followers …

Last week I enjoyed the opportunity of hosting a renowned business leader as a keynote speaker at a luncheon event. I arrived at the venue early to make sure the room was set up and presentable and to set up my laptop and projector. The attendees started arriving a few minutes later to mix and …

If you’re looking for ideas on what to tweet just think of what your interests and passions are, what makes you laugh, what entertains or topics of interest.

One of the things I enjoy doing is hosting or facilitating networking events for a number of different groups such as Eastside Networking Event. At these events people don’t usually bring resumes with them, but they usually bring business cards and with business cards comes the “exchange.” What’s interesting to me is how often that …

Networking. Just the utterance of the word can be akin to getting the flu. We don’t like it, feel we aren’t good at it or see it as a necessary evil to “get ahead” in our careers.

When I first started on Twitter I followed anyone who followed me. I figured I would just automatically return the favor and follow back. Once I followed 2,000 people I hit some sort of cap from Twitter and I could not follow everyone, so I had to get picky.

Once you’ve setup an account you might be asking yourself, “Now what?”

Over the holidays I conducted an experiment of sorts. I wanted to find out if my Followers on Twitter would continue to increase even if I didn’t tweet.  Overall I tweeted about once a day. I enjoyed the break from tweeting, by the way, but that’s another posting… My follower count stayed FLAT.  I mean, …

If you’re like me it’s virtually impossible to keep up with all the tweets from your favorite tweeps.