Archives for August, 2010

My Newest Social Media Drug: 4 Reasons Why StumbleUpon for the iPhone Delivers on the Mobile Web Potential

If you’ve been reading my blog and following my tweets, you’ll know that I am a huge evangelizer of StumbleUpon for marketing and professional use.  I consume my media a little different than other people.  I’m not an RSS person.  I know the blogs and websites that I find resourceful and will visit them.  I [...]

Facebook Places Analysis: 3 Reasons Why Facebook Will Continue to Be Your Aggregator of Social Information

While everyone was talking about the new Facebook Places application last week, I wanted to wait until I had a chance to actually experiment with it myself and report firsthand back to you on my analysis.  A little bit of historical perspective can’t hurt any analysis either: A few days in social media seems like [...]

Going on a Business Trip? Use the LinkedIn Events Application and Windmill Network!

Image by @Photo . via Flickr If you’ve followed my Windmill Networking blog for awhile or read my LinkedIn book, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of the LinkedIn Events Application.  Seriously.  I wrote an April Fools’s post back in 2009 complaining why Events wasn’t considered an application with a blog post rhetorically entitled, [...]

What is a LinkedIn Expert?

Yesterday I wrote my own definition concerning what a social media expert is, so today I wanted to look specifically at what I feel makes a LinkedIn expert.  Recently I was named a LinkedIn expert on the site of the LinkedIn and Social Media Training Company Integrated Alliance’s blog post.  And on that same post [...]

What are LinkedIn Applications?

This is a funny question, and I think it is only asked because LinkedIn has not done a good job branding this functionality in their user interface.  Let me explain in more detail. Branding problem #1: LinkedIn Applications were introduced on October 28, 2008.  This introductory blog post mentioned nine applications that were released.  But [...]