by Whitney | Nov 3, 2009 | books, business, community, economics, new media, social media
I had someone ask me a question about sharing and linking at my recent presentation about Blogging for Business at AGS University. They said someone had told them they shouldn’t link out to others because it was taking traffic away from your website and giving...
by Whitney | Nov 2, 2009 | business, economics, education, social media
This could also be entitled “What I’m learning from Malcolm Gladwell and Ron Popeil”. I picked up Malcolm Gladwell’s new book,”What the Dog Saw”- a collection of some of his New Yorker pieces. Since I wasn’t as blown away by...
by Whitney | Oct 23, 2009 | business, community, learning, social media
At the very first Podcamp Boston, CC Chapman and Mitch Joel did a great presentation on Personal Branding that altered the way I approached my web projects. Instead of always staying in the background, I learned how important it was to own your blog and podcast, add...
by Whitney | Oct 12, 2009 | community, politics, social media, Uncategorized
Chris Brogan had an interesting post titled ” What Human Businesses and the Social Web are all About” and it got me thinking, as usual. Tom Friedman has talked about how the World is Flat and the boundaries that have long separated people are evaporating...
by Whitney | Sep 5, 2009 | business, community, education, happiness, learning, social media
A couple of my friends have recently come out with fantastic books- Mitch Joel wrote “Six Pixels of Separation” and Chris Brogan and and Julien Smith have come out with the New York Times best selling Trust Agents. Both books discuss how people are...
by Whitney | Oct 29, 2008 | business, community, new media, social media
“Business Relationships” used to sound like an oxymoron- there was business, and then there were relationships, friendships, you had outside of the business or work world. Companies classically (and probably still do in many places) discourage workplace...
