Archive for the ‘business relationships’ Category

Case study: How one blog post helped me get a job in social media

Antonia Harler is a friend from the {grow} community who blogged and tweeted about her challenges finding a job in social media marketing. And then, it finally happened! She has […]

The Majestic Hope of Social Media

This has been a strange year of growing pains for the social web — privacy issues, cyber-bullying, gurus galore, and technical failures seemed to dominate the headlines. But there’s something amazing […]

A lesson from LinkedIn: Crowdsourcing your education

Check this LinkedIn screen capture out. Isn’t that cool? Makes me think … maybe there is some value to this social networking stuff after all. : )

A World Without Flaws – The Social Media Stepford Wives

An email with a subject line of “You Made Me Cry” gets my attention! And that is exactly what Jamie Lee Wallace wrote to me last week after reading the […]

Social media and the big conversation “fail”

I am feeling sad and a bit ashamed of myself. Something happened — a wake-up call about this notion of social media “community” and “conversation.” It’s making me pause and […]

When it comes to social media, there’s no place like home

Arminda Lindsay has become one of the most steadfast {grow} community members in 2010. Here’s Arminda’s story about finding her new career in social media marketing in a very familiar […]

Social media — now for engineers too!

This week I’m turning {grow} over to the community this week and today offer a social media tale from an unlikely participant, my friend George Cooper. George is the engineer’s […]

Build your audience like your life depended on it

Welcome to Community Week on {grow} as we feature thought-provoking, original thinking from our community members. First up is Jamie Lee Wallace, who helped me with an outstanding ROI and […]

The Spirituality of Social Media

Sure the social web is filled with rants and quacks, but I’ve also been thinking about how the science and technology of this channel lifts people up, and perhaps even […]