Rosemary Reilman's Blog (5)

Welcome to our cocktail party! What's your drink of choice? Everyone's trying to figure out how to use Social Media for their own professional and personal use. Social media is a Cocktail Party. That as marketers we have to see it as any in-person networking event. When you walk into the room, you don't walk up to the first person you see and start pitching your idea. That's bad networking and bad etiquette.… Continue

Guy Kawasaki, thanks to Network Solutions visited Charlotte this evening to talk about Small Business/Entrepreneurship. In his talk, Guy discussed the Art of Innovative Solutions - meaning how to start a business that is innovative. I like how Guy started out by saying jokingly - define a niche that’s small enough and you will dominate it. While he was referring to him being the best Hawaiian, 53 year old hockey player that lived in Northern California, the message seemed to have some continuit… Continue

Everyone's business is different. Everyone's interests are different. It's like a giant Venn diagram - some places you and I will be polar opposites and some places we might overlap. Polarization is ok. (This is something I learned from Guy Kawasaki.) You have to look at the product and decide what has value for your needs and price point. Read the full blog post Continue

I wanted to be sure to highlight this post: Does Your Message Fit the Environment by David Wescott (It's Not A Lecture Blog) where he takes a look at what a tag cloud of blog posts of some social media leaders vs. their Twitter conversations. (I always love when I find a new blog that I haven't seen before!) You'll find that the blog posts are very work-oriented, while the Twitter conversations are mo… Continue

Interesting article and poll about facebook privacy. (Or lack thereof.)
Read the original article here.
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