Tag / social media

After three months, my social media sab­bat­i­cal is offi­cially over. Inter­est­ingly enough, when I unplugged at the begin­ning of Sep­tem­ber, I was cer­tain that I would be sit­ting in a cor­ner like a crack addict, itch­ing to post a sta­tus update. While I can­not say that I didn’t have some­thing resem­bling with­drawal symp­toms at first, […]

Even though I am in the midst of a social media sab­bat­i­cal, I still keep up with what’s hap­pen­ing in the tech side of social media. When it comes to Twit­ter, I think that Seesmic is one of the bet­ter clients out there. (desk­top, web-based and mobile) In the mobile space, Seesmic for Android just […]

This may strike you as odd  that some­one who is a self-professed tech nerd (or maybe just a nerd, gen­er­ally) and early adopter wants to push back from the social media buf­fet. For quite some time, I’ve won­dered if I suf­fer from an undi­ag­nosed case of ADD, because I am eas­ily, and fre­quently, dis­tracted. The […]

Big­Think and TED are prob­a­bly two of the most vis­ited sites in my browser book­mark list. The sites are loaded with inter­views and dis­cus­sion by incred­i­bly engag­ing peo­ple. Check out this seven-minute inter­view with Bonin Bough, global direc­tor of digial and social media for Pep­siCo. I think he shares some really good thoughts on the […]