Some thoughts on blogs and enewsletters

A recent seminar participant emailed me today asking my recommendations on enewsletters and I'm responding via blog post as I often do... The biggest challenge with enewsletters from my perspective is that you have to actually do them. At some point in time you realize it's time to do the newsletter and if you haven't … Continue reading Some thoughts on blogs and enewsletters

How Social Media is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write

Do you speak “social?” There is a lot of writing out there about the effects of social media on business, marketing, branding and customer services. But what about how social media communications is impacting our written communications, or even our oral communications? Anyone remember when email was going to destroy letter writing, and even the … Continue reading How Social Media is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write

Blood in the social media waters

It would appear that Chuck Shumer smells blood in the water and sees a way to boost his flagging political career by shining a spotlight on Facebook..."Facebook is feeling some political heat for its moves last week, after launching a program that “instantly personalizes” websites for visitors by automatically sharing user data with the site … Continue reading Blood in the social media waters

Having ‘fixed’ healthcare…

...the geniuses in Congress now want to 'fix' the internet..."Calls to regulate social networks in the US are growing louder as Sen Charles Schumer (D-NY) has called on the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for how companies including Facebook and Twitter handle user data.In a letter to the FTC, Sen Schumer said he was … Continue reading Having ‘fixed’ healthcare…