HootSuite – in-browser Twitter client
Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting frustrated with the various Twitter clients that use Adobe Air. These include Seesmic, Tweetdeck and Mixero. All have a lot of really nice features, but I’m finding that they just want too big a share of my system resources and when I want to close them I have to often go into into Windows Task Manager to get them to go away. Clearly an alternative approach would be well worth testing. I tried... [Read More...]
12for12k – Doctors Without Borders
September promises to be a fantastic month for The 12for12k Challenge. It is going to bring together three powerful ideas: 12for12k: The idea that regular people can use social media to get together and make the World better Global Patriot: Mark Lovett’s vision that patriotism needed be confined by national or regional boundaries – which I subscribe to 100% Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières using the same philosophy to... [Read More...]
Totally Incorrect Podcast – August 09
This months podcast is very much a social media one. You can hear me ramble on about Twitter/Facebook/FriendFeed. The Twitter outage, Facebook buying out FriendFeed etc. Also, an update with what’s going on with 12for12k right now as well as my #FollowFriday and Fool of the Week features. You can listen in the little media player you should see below. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download... [Read More...]
Marketing in the AIDC business
If you read Totally Incorrect, or follow my updates at Twitter, you’ll know that my day job is with a company in the labeling and barcode business – this is called AIDC or Automatic Identification and Data Capture. That’s a funny way of saying we identify people and stuff with barcodes, RFID and even text or photos. To help our clients solve their business problems, we use products from a number of different suppliers that we build... [Read More...]
Social Media – keeping it under control
It seems to be ironic writing this on the day that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, but I have to say, I’m feeling that social media has been taking up too much of my time. To be honest my use of social networking sites is a lot less than many people, but I’m finding that 3 blogs, 2 Twitter accounts, 2 FriendFeed accounts, Posterous, Facebook etc is getting to be way too much. Of course this is without my full-time sales and marketing... [Read More...]
Why I’m Liking Posterous
When I heard about Posterous, I wondered if we really needed another social media platform. We already have Twitter for small posts and there are a ton of blogging and social bookmarking platforms out there for everything else. Being curious, I signed up for an account and checked it out. At that stage, this was pretty much all I did, I couldn’t see where Posterous would help me and with 3 blogs, 2 Twitter accounts and a Facebook account, I... [Read More...]
Totally Incorrect Podcast – July 2009
Alright – I’ve finished the first edition of the Totally Incorrect Podcast!!! You can listen in the little media player you should see below. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_2", {soundFile:"aHR0cDovL3d3dy50b3RhbGx5aW5jb3JyZWN0LmNvbS9hdWRpby9qdWx5MjAwOXBvZGNhc3QubXAzA"}); Here... [Read More...]
Social Media in Manufacturing
How can social media be integrated into a marketing plan for a manufacturing company that sells to other manufacturing companies? This post has been on my to-do list for a long time. When you bear in mind that I’m a social media enthusiast and a marketing manager for a manufacturing company, you’d think it would be easy. I should be the perfect person to use social media to market to my clients, most of whom are manufacturers themselves.... [Read More...]
Blog of the Week – Global Patriot
I came across Mark Lovett, the Global Patriot guy during the recent 12for12k 24 hour event. Mark has had a successful business career and now is devoting a lot of his time to helping others. Marks idea is that being a Global Patriot is different to being a National Patriot. While a National Patriot is concerned with people and events within a single country or region, the Global Patriot wants to do and create things that are good for everyone. As... [Read More...]
Social Media – Over Hyped?
You know what, I really like social media. I use some of the mainstream social media sites and I get a ton of value from them. On Twitter, I’ve met a lot of really cool people, learned so much about many subjects and discovered 12for12k. I use Facebook mainly to keep in touch with my family and I also use some of the other sites such as Linkedin and FriendFeed. For a while I’ve been reading how social media marketing makes all other marketing... [Read More...]
