By now, even your grandmother knows social media is hot, but what’s the ROI on that social networking? Even for nonprofits on a tight budget, there are plenty of good monitoring tools. But what if you could track stats for all your major networks – free – from your desktop or home page, without giving out your passwords? SociafyQ is designed to do just that. …(read more)

Normally I’m not one to call people/companies/organizations out for things that they do to me. I generally handle things behind the scenes if I think I’ve been wronged and move on with my life but in this specific instance I decided that it was worth posting about because it could potentially happen to any of us.

Here is the situation. For the past few years I have been an outspoken fan of Fusion Productions DigitalNow conference. In my humble opinion it’s one of the best organized [read more]

BMart first alerted us to the fact that LinkedIn is trying really hard not to suck as badly. But he had a few, um, suggestions to offer. Looks like someone was listening, as they’ve added a bunch more applications:

• Box on LinkedIn: Share files and collaborate with your network.
• Huddle on LinkedIn: Private…

Forget Basecamp, try Huddle. We tried setting up a Basecamp account for our new SocialFish work, and it just wasn’t really cutting it, and I was a little irked with paying my $49 a month – then we discovered Huddle, which is a totally free project management site (free unless…

Read this fascinating post by Jyri Engeström. I want to know what you think.

In it, he argues that “the social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects.” [my bold here and below].

Namely, Flickr is about photos; Youtube is about videos; LinkedIn (when it works) is about…

On Tuesday, September 9, I had the opportunity to speak to the Potomac Employers Roundtable. A group of about 30 people, largely senior HR and Administration professionals from a wide range of organizations (PR consultancies, HR consultancies, nonprofits, and for profits) gathered in the board room of Williams & Mullen bright…

Check out the sweet discussion on yapstar.org about the value of LinkedIn for associations. (You don’t need to be a member to read, only to post and join the convo.)

I got a comment recently, here on an earlier post:

“Have you heard of companies requiring employees to have LinkedIn profiles, and to…