The Cheap Revolution

Quick Question: Your Uses of Social Media?

2009-11-05T14:26:41-05:00

What is your topmost reason for using Social Media? Search? Sales? Relationship? Build credentials? Recruiting? POV? Helping? Other?

TribeCon kicks off conversation about Community

2009-10-26T05:50:24-04:00

This week in New Orleans kicks off an important conversation about Tribe Building. TribeCon will be held October 29-30 in New Orleans, Louisiana in partnership with the Voodoo Experience. The conference will feature inspiring and educational presentations by world-renown panelists. All panels will focus around building community online and offline, and leveraging communities to accomplish amazing things. The lineup includes conversations about failure and community, microcontent communities, how to Rawk a new community, community across contexts (both online and offline themes) and many others. Sounds like a lot of fascinating topics. As an added benefit, the conference is co-located with...

5 Easy Social Media Tips for Technologists

2009-09-21T16:01:03-04:00

A couple of weeks ago, Skip and I spoke at the Chariot Solutions offices for a Social Media "Lunch & Learn". Our audience? Open source technologists! We reviewed some of the basics, but also discussed why a person in the technical field should care. Granted, many of these technologists are already "hip" to social technology. Some have embraced the tools and are harnessing social technology to build & nurture relationships and share/collaborate with other technologists. Quite frankly, it's refreshing that Chariot is "leading the charge" (pun intended!) and encouraging their employees to participate in social media. It's really a no-brainer;...