Introducing social media

In a few weeks I’m going to be giving a presentation introducing social media to neophytes.And, in addition to offering practical how-to’s and definitions, I’d like to include a couple of slides with tips or advice from practitioners (with full...

Social media how-to

Yesterday, thanks to a post by Parker Mason, I came across Dave Fleet’s Practical 101s series that explains various social media tools in language that’s easy to understand. And he provides clear instructions and useful examples, too. So far, he’s...

Becoming ‘Bold’

Not too long ago, I mentioned I was going to upgrade to a Blackberry Bold and I did get one. (Hey, iPhones may be super cool, but that’s just never been me.)After a bit of back and forth trying to find one in a store, I asked to have it shipped. It arrived the...

A ‘Bold’ failure to communicate

I’ve been having a few email issues lately. Mostly related to my Blackberry.Sometimes, when I forward an email, random words (and even whole sentences) get cut up, deleted and garbled (or as one email said, rbld). It’s as if I’m writing in a bizarre...

Spammers one, believers zero*

When people from my agency go on vacation, we try to give them an email holiday, too.We stop cc’ing them and prepare an update that they receive just before they get back with a summary of what happened, the most recent drafts of documents and so on.Of course,...