I Dare You To Become a Real-Time Expert

What the heck is a “real time” expert? It’s an expert who continuously communicates advice, questions, challenges and thoughts with their audience or customer. A real-time expert doesn’t publish a book and walk away. They feed their audience with their views on current events, industry news, shake-ups, best practices and epiphanies. They produce a stream…

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Got Twitter? Start Blogging.

With the swarm of Twittermania, some once speculated that blogs were a dying breed. However, it’s because of Twitter and other emerging social media that blogs are more alive and necessary than ever before! Recently, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld compared the future of Blogging and Microblogging. He references statistics that show Twitter’s flattening growth, while WordPress’…

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Is Your Website Ready for Social Media Visitors?

Ready to take the plunge into the Social Media pool? Eager to Tweet about your business and industry, post links on Facebook and generate a buzz online? Before you begin rubbing elbows in the social media world, take a critical look at your website. Imagine this: An expert in your industry now follows you on…

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A Soapbox Moment: Black Hatters Beware

I’m still recovering from a great day at BarCamp Tampa on Sunday. It was an amazing event where I truly felt connected with the local tech and new media community. Awesome, awesome stuff! There were some very lively discussions. Okay I admit, I participated in a rather heated debate with a guy in one session…

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