Women tweet 12 percent more

Learned this from Posterous this morning. “Who dominates the world of 140 characters? Look no further than the fairer sex. A new report from HubSpot found that women tweet 12 percent more than men and follow two percent more. Where my tweetin’ ladies at? Represent.”

During my first cup of coffee I decided to take a look at Horribly Sexist Vintage Ads.

The official Posterous announces new features. “Hello everyone, I’m Chris. I am one of the new(ish) members of the Posterous team. We are proud to announce Markdown support for Posterous blogs. This is a great way for software developers or advanced power bloggers to control the markup of their posts with a lot more precision. Now you can post using Markdown with the same simplicity you’ve come to expect from Posterous.”

Secretary of state taps social media in blog, other efforts | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal

Government 2.0 in the making.

Secretary of state taps social media in blog, other efforts | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal: "Secretary of state taps social media in blog, other efforts | October 4, 2009

Secretary of State Kate Brown has begun a blog and revised her agency's Web site in an attempt to tap new social media.

There will be Facebook and Twitter portals.

The blog will offer an insider's take on the work of the agency's four program divisions: Archives, Audits, Corporations and Elections. Among the contents will be news, frequently asked questions, reports, and an occasional question-and-answer format with staff. There is also a section for public comments.

'I believe that social networking and media present a tremendous opportunity for government and the public to have a truly interactive discussion about the state and how it is run,' Brown said.

Blog: www.oregonsosblog.us. Web site: www.sos.state.or.us.

— Peter Wong"

More people centric blogging

I've a Seesmic account but I've not used it. Wanted to use it with my E71 but there is not a mobile interface so I continue to use Qik and Bambuser.

Haven't yet posted videos to my Flickr account either. Nokia's OVI doesn't pay an important role in my life yet. I feel OVI is complicated. Flickr isn't.

My blog postings could become little works of art and I work hard to personalize them.

The English language is certainly a challenge. It's very demanding to get into the flow. I've to struggle with the words. But life isn't easy either. I try to learn new ways of expression every single day.

I seldom hit people with products on my blogs but I've been inspired by buildings, nature, street pictures etc.

I would like to write more interviews about people but time is a limiting factor. Interviewing takes time.

This social media stuff is what we breath on a daily basis. My social media usage isn't expanding but I try to focus on the channels I've - which means a lot.

First step was blogging but the most interesting events take place in microblogs. I'm happier with the use of Facebook now.

With social media I can follow thousands of conversations on an annual basis. It could be used as sales funnel as well but I still concentrate more on socializing and expressing ideas.

My interest isn't in multilevel marketing. Social media is probably at best the most important learning environment I happen to have. Great ideas can be turned it into conversations and sharing ideas means very often that they become better when they are touched and commented by others..

Maybe I can tell someone else about things that are on my mind with all the pictures I take and have taken over the years. Drawings, cartoons, and old memos contain great and weird ideas. I've been posting a part from a huge archive.

A great way of communication happens with pictures transmitted to Brightkite and Qaiku. Flickr and Brightkite transport them to Friendfeed, Twitter, and Facebook where they get a second life. Or at least an extension.

Twitter has been low on my list lately and Friendfeed could certainly get more attention.

Flickr and KK-Net's Gallery, on the other hand aren't just my or KK-Net's family photo albums but a part of my / our personal exposure. My followers can see on a continuous basis what I'm involved in.

Old and new pictures have credibility and they can underline important historical events in my and KK-Net's life.

Open Letter to the Would-Be CEO Blogger : MarketingProfs Articles

I've not seen Connie on Twitter for a while. The reason might be that I've been very occupied by off-line events. There is still some life going on in the off-line world. Her tweet about this blog caught my attention.

Open Letter to the Would-Be CEO Blogger : MarketingProfs Articles: "Dear CEO,

I am really happy to hear that you're getting excited by the concept of social media. There's no question that the principles of social media—in short, embracing a candid and ongoing dialogue with users—constitute an unstoppable trend.

Meanwhile, the tools of social media (blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) are becoming ever more important components to the marketing mix.

The fact that you want to get personally involved bodes well for your company's chances of successfully navigating these unknown waters.
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I can understand why you, as a CEO, would be interested in 'joining the conversation.' It's an interesting conversation: After all, it's a conversation about topics of interest to you and to your company, and the people you'll interact with will self-identify themselves as being interested in what you've got to say.

And, for what it's worth, here's some more good news: It takes a lot of talent to rise to the CEO spot; you need to be confident, charming, smart, and articulate—and these are excellent qualities in a blogger, too! Done well, your foray into blogging will afford you both personal satisfaction and bottom-line results. So we're off to a good start.

So, umm, how do you really start? How..."

Read more on the blog!

The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World - 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy

The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World - 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy: "Working alone as a blogger can at times be lonely. In this guest post two bloggers, Eric Hamm from Up-And-Coming-Blogger and “Motivate Thyself” and Sean Platt from Writer Dad have together written a post outlining some of the advantages of collaborating as bloggers and finding a ‘blog buddy’. This is the first part in a 2 part series..."

Helge: Working alone with any business or social activity can be lonely. Imagine how hard it has been to write books, poems or novels in the past. Blogging is a new thing and involves a much broader layer of the society.

Saying the Internet’s big is a Rushmore of understatement. Our computers are planets, the Internet a galaxy. Viewed from afar, there are a billion points of light, but swimming in the middle of it all, it is easy to feel alone among the black. Finding a comfortable orbit isn’t immediate, but if you stick with blogging, it is an eventuality.

Helge: The Internet isn't always big for the individual writer. Having 10 to 100 readers a day is just a tiny little piece of the Internet apple pie.

Blogopolis bursts with neighborhood upon neighborhood, brimming with amazing people. Some we meet while a guest at their blogs, while reading their words and observe perspective. Some we meet below the belt of our own blog, bantering among the comments. Others send us an email; a more private venue to foster a friendship.

Helge: How to find the friends and supporters on Internet can be just as difficult as in real life.

How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! - ReadWriteWeb

How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! - ReadWriteWeb: "The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out.

We asked 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants to tell us how much they get paid, by the post, by the hour or by the month - however their rates are set. Half of them told us, on the condition that we wouldn't disclose who they were or where they worked.

The end result is an anecdotal overview of what some of the top tech bloggers and social media consultants are making. These aren't the founders of big blogs, these are their employees and people who get work writing, doing trainings or consulting for tech companies.

There are a handful of people in tech blogging that make even more than this but the vast majority of people who get paid to blog get paid far less. To be honest we have no idea what it's like outside the Web 2.0 world. (Honestly, is it raining?) We hope that no one will be too angry with us if these numbers lead their employees to feel newly shortchanged and protest. These folks are at the top of their field."

Helge: How much?

Payment Per Blog Post

Most people who are paid to blog are paid per post. What kinds of rates are our respondents seeing? The low end of the scale was $10 per post for very short posts. Almost everyone else said they were paid $25 per post. One person said they were paid $80 per post! One respondent said they were paid $200 per item of long-form writing; bloggers often do other kinds of writing as well.

How does this work out long term? Based on our experience working for many different blogs, we believe that most per-post blogging gigs assume you'll write an average of 3 blog posts in 4 hours. It often takes longer than that to write 3 posts but ambitious bloggers, like the ones we surveyed, know that at this stage you put in extra unpaid hours just to get ahead.

1. 2 per hour
2. $25 per blog
3. $50 per hour
4. a few hundred dollars per day

Blogger: User Profile: Marigo Raftopoulos

I make this post to familiarize myself with Marigo Ratpoulos. I'll write more when I read her blogs.

Blogger: User Profile: Marigo Raftopoulos: "Marigo Raftopoulos

* Age: 45
* Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
* Zodiac Year: Tiger
* Industry: Business Services
* Occupation: Management Consultant
* Location: Melbourne : Victoria : Australia

About Marigo Raftopoulos

I've been working as a management consultant for over 20 years. I spent the early part of my career in the big international firms and now I know better. Square pegs (the consultancy's formula answer) do not fit into round holes (the client's perceived problem). Today I work together with my clients to help them make sense of their challenges and to inspire them in building their internal learning and capability. But that's easier said than done..."


I commented on her blog:

You write, "However the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks, and this requires distinctly different management tools. Krebs, and others, maintain that our knowledge economy operates on the complexities of our connections and our networks. And at this point in time, many organizations still have the neat, mechanical hierarchies sitting on top of the complex networks of information flows and knowledge sharing."

I can list numerous traditional businesses / enterprises where command and control is still very much in the driving seat and the business environment around these traditional industries is changing rapidly.

- The forest industry lost sight of changes ten years ago and is now trying to adapt to the need of disruptive research and development.

- The energy sector is still very centralized and top-down while distributed energy resources are available.

- Engineering, process and machinery manufacturing is still adapted to deliver for the post-ware industrial complex when people are looking for something new.

- There is a huge over capacity of manufacturing in China producing things nobody is going to need.

- The investment banking crisis also tells that we're loosing the common sense of understanding how complex global systems work. The financial crisis might be followed by serial killing problems in the food supply chain that nobody can control.

Br
Helge
Loviisa, Finland
http://kknetwork.ning.com/

Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » EU report: “Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity”

Is that so? Are bloggers anti-establishment? Does grassroots make an impact against the Top-Down and centralist EU?

Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » EU report: “Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity”: "EU report: “Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity”

At Eurosoc: The EU Blog Wars Have Begun

A recent European Commission report leaked earlier this month said that the EU was “losing the battle for hearts and minds” partly because of the activities of anti-EU bloggers. The recent defeat of the Lisbon Treaty in the Irish referendum led Eurocrats to study blog activity in the Republic; they concluded that Eurosceptic blogs, some by anonymous sources, outnumbered pro-treaty blogs. Of course the fact that the main Irish newspapers were overwhelmingly pro-Lisbon didn’t seem to worry them unduly.

- Eurosceptic blogs
- Anti-EU bloggers
- Newspapers role

“Blogging is also seen as an anti-establishment activity,” the report concluded, complaining that “the quality of debate has suffered” as a result of blog dissent attracting the attention of readers from TV and radio.

- The quality of debate has suffered!

Bloggers anonymous and otherwise have good reason to be delighted to have proved a thorn in the EU’s side on this and other issues. The mainstream media on continental Europe is increasingly docile: Blogs offer the only real dissent in some countries. Even in Britain, where Eurosceptic newspapers enjoy a large market share, the reporting of EU issues is feeble: Dedicated Eurosceptic bloggers like Richard North spend almost as much effort correcting false Eurosceptic reporting as they do criticising the EU itself."

- The bloggers have another point of view
- There isn't a single truth

Blogger in Draft provides better editing of gadget preferences

I learn through writing. This "blogger in draft" is new to me and I try to grasp the changes and benefits.

Google wrote:

Today’s [June26, 2008] Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let’s lead off with the quick stuff:

• Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences.
  
  
• The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re trying out and, by popular demand, the “show all blogs” toggle is now sticky.
  
  
• The subscribe page element has been published to WWW.
  
  
• We’ve added a “Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard” to the Blogger in Draft dashboard, so now you don’t have to remember to type “draft.blogger.com” instead of “www.blogger.com.”
  
  
• So you can easily keep up with the news, we’ve added this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard.

But that’s not what you came here for. You wanted this:

• Webmaster Tools Verification. Turn this on to automatically add and verify all your blogs on Google’s Webmaster Tools.
  
  
• Star ratings. Add a 0–5 star rating control to the bottom of your posts so that your readers can rate them.
  
  
• Import / export of blogs. Back up all of your posts and comments to one Atom XML file on your computer, and import your posts from one blog to another.
  
  
• Embedded comment form. By incredibly popular demand, we’ve brought the comment form to your blog’s post pages, with support for Google Account and OpenID authentication.
  
  
• New post editor. We’ve completely revised the post editor, bringing in drag-and-drop image placement and better HTML handling.

As always, these features are on Blogger in Draft because we’re not done with them and we’re looking for your feedback. Please read the posts for each of the features before trying them so that you know what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you leave comments! These are big features for us, so we want to get them right before we turn them on for everyone.

— Pete

Russian Bloggers Are As Powerful As Russian Hackers | Profy | Internet news and commentary

Russian Bloggers Are As Powerful As Russian Hackers | Profy | Internet news and commentary: "Since both the blogosphere and the traditional media is abuzz today with the news about a cyberattack against Georgian official websites presumably organized by Russia (and I have already claimed that I believe the Russian hackers really did not need any special request to get started with the DDoS attack), I thought I’d mention another aspect of the situation that is remotely related to this one and proves my point again.

A Russian-language blog reports today another story about Russian bloggers manipulating results of a poll on CNN website to demonstrate what exactly people think here about the conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia."

TinyPic Pictures for your blog

Get pictures from TinyPic if you like to visualize your networking.

Saara Laaksonen at saaralaaksonen.com

I learned about Saara Laaksonen through Twitter. Here is a short quote from her blog.

saaralaaksonen.com: "The X-Cell Project Written on 11 July 2008 by Saara Laaksonen.

At the moment I’m working on a project called X-Cell. The work we’re doing includes testing and presenting new social media solutions for the purposes of local and regional organizations, schools and companies. The project is going on pretty well. We have for example agreed to do this pilot case with local schools in which at least two groups of students will be testing the use of a virtual computer as a part of the course they are studying.

I think the possibilities that social media and web 2.0 offer are endless and I’m really excited about this project. In general the companies are really interested in the web 2.0 and social media tools in this region but the biggest problem to get them use these tools is TIME, the lack of time. The thing is that it might be easy and fast to take new tools in use but if you don’t do anything with them or don’t use them right, the tools are pretty much useless and you won’t get any benefit out of using them. BUT, if you put a little bit of time and effort in using them, you might get good results out of those tools."

I'll write more about SL later.

fabsh.com | ontent hacking

fabsh.com: "Apr 11, 2008 | Content Hacking | Televison and radio content comes in programmes which are carefully planned and organised — ie. “programmed” — from first idea to finished product. The sames goes for most of the traditional printed publications like novels, short stories and newspaper articles.

This process is very similar to the way most major software used to be written for a long time. In the IT industry, this changed dramatically with the advent of Free and Open Source software and now huge projects like the Linux kernel are developed largely by volunteers in their free time.

This ad-hoc way of contributing to software projects as the individual sees fit is often described as hacking. I am seeing a similar revolution taking place in the content space right now. A shift from conventional publishing with a high barrier of entry to more liberal ways of creating and sharing art, music and text as well as audio and video content.

I recently came up with the phrase content hacking to describe this new movement."

Blogging and patien care

Blogging could be used as a medium for transferring patient information on a hospital intranet when the patient is moved from one location to another.

Blogged about this 10/4/06 8:09 AM. I've no idea if this has any validity at any hospital today.

Medical blogging and interactive Health Care could well be a future project with a potential.

It could be applied as an early warning or weak signals reporting system to indicate problems a patient is feeling.

If there is a record in digital form, it would be easier to analyze. What if the patient don't remember?

As a kind of self-diagnostics...Perhaps. What do you think?

Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can’t Wait To Speak With a Human

Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can’t Wait To Speak With a Human: "On Friday, I moderated a fun panel at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami. The basic premise was to try to come up with a compelling web app in 40 minutes. There were a lot of good ideas, but the best ones centered around communications and how to use technology to get around the frustrations of e-mail and phone calls.

It was clear that the panelists think these communication modes that we rely on every day may very well be in the process of breaking down. (CNet’s Caroline McCarthy, who was covering the conference, notes this as well).

Helge: Email and the Phone is what I feel has to change. We don't need to talk all the time. Email is a garbage sink.

A lot of the ideas were about getting around current communications bottlenecks. Leah Culver of Pownce came up with a white pages service that uses SMS text messages to look up phone numbers.

Helge: I'd like to see more people writing, blogging. The idea of having things documented is better than cold calls in the air.

Blaine Cook of Twitter suggested creating a call-back service that would, in effect, allow you call companies and put them on hold until a human answered.

Helge: Humans are avoiding phone calls?

In other words, you would specify what department you want to speak with at a company, and the software would call and go through the phone tree, and digitally push all the right buttons until it got to a human operator, at which point it would ring your phone. I thought this was brilliant.

Helge: Why not Twitter? I know why not, because there want be a response.

Leah Culver is the lead programmer for the messaging service Pownce. Previously she had worked at Instructables and gained internet notoriety from her laser-etched laptop project.

Nik Butler and Helge Keitel about Social Media

Nik Butler, thanks for the Skype call yesterday. We discussed "Social Media in UK", exchanged information about Social Media on the British Islands and what we Finns are doing her up in the green, green woods, and country of thousand lakes.

We both agreed, there are psychological barriers for rapid expansion of Social Media in business, project management, and marketing. You told about successful cases in tourism, entertainment, the travel industry, financing and insurance industries. I see a common nominator in all these businesses; industries They need to get in touch with a large and dispersed population.

Nik, you also want to expand into entertainment. We didn't define "entertainment" but I guess it's a huge business area and social media applications are emerging. Nokia started its www.ovi.com service platform to compete with iTunes. However, that's just a tiny little area of entertainment. It is a big industry in need for personalized services.

We spoke about visiting customers on-site or dealing through Internet and working from a distance and on-line. Finland as a location means that distance-work and teletravel is the way of life. We've five million people in a country that has a larger area than UK. The typical innovator don't find a single customer in his / her home town. When we step out of the door in the winter time there is just one meter of snow; no customers in sight!

People, customers, clients are living busy lives and don't have the time to visit sales offices and show rooms. Information about products and services has to be delivered to our computers, laptops, to mobile devices in our pockets and handbags. Television and traditional print media are too slow. The Net Generation don't watch television, they don't read the old medias.

We might watch soap operas, entertainment, and stand-up comedians on TV, but when it's time for the AD break, we all run to the fridge for a sandwich or a beer. TV News is like "Yesterday" from a Beatles vinyl album.

"Search engine optimization and the traditional Web 1.0 pages are still the focus for middle of the road marketing people in UK," you said.

"Businesses still don't grasp the idea of a continuous dialog with their clients. Even in Facebook traditional companies look for ways to place ads. Companies say, they want to listen to clients and prospects, but the CRM is still all about telling and selling to the customers, most are not investing in social interaction."

Companies are looking fro sales automation models but aren't yet ready to twitter, jaiku, blog and skype with "them". The customer is still an outsider (them). The role of the customer is to carry the pounds, dollars and euros to the company's cash register and in exchange "they" get a product or service. "Thanks, have a nice day!"

Transparent conversations with dealers, clients and prospects isn't a big mainstream activity yet, but we agreed, there is a strong under-current of change. Social Media as an effective global marketing tool is emerging. The power of SM is the promise for open and innovative dialog. The big companies need to rip down the walls and start talking live with real clients and not with demographical information and statistics.

I see opportunities in knowledge management and in handling complex negotiations on a global scale without the need to spend a big part of my life in airplanes and airport security check-lines. "The death of the salesman" is a valid play again. - He and she have to learn how to sell and tell online - and to listen.

We spoke about security issues as a barrier for big companies to enter the open and interactive world. Skype, chats, IM's, mysapces, and facebooks are banned by many corporations as security risks.

You said, "Companies need to refocus their emotional energy to better understanding of Social Media benefits instead of constantly thinking about the treats."

I agree, it's million times more important to talk with your/our clients and not get cornered in security traps where NDA's, corporate lawyers, firewalls, and horror stories about hackers looming for mystical and mythical corporate treasures are prohibiting people at all levels from talking with their clients.

What could we do together? How about networking? Would it be possible to create something new through cross-border collaboration? Let me present our operation a little more. KK-Net uses social media and virtual organizations for internationalization of innovative companies and start-ups. Ares of interest are: biotechnology, bioenergy, microbiology, health care, life science, etc. But social media can be applied to anything in the corporate jungle.

• Market research, global field sales, marketing and business communication services

• Understanding how innovations emerge and what is needed to build successful global business operations

• Cost-effective business models and global collaboration, co-creation and open innovation

• Organizing international operations for shortest ways to new markets and success

• Working together in cross-border and cross-cultural projects on a global scale

• Social Networking, Knowledge Management and Social Intelligence accumulation combined with Open Source Methodology

• Sharing experience about what makes good ideas, excellent products and services to succeed and not to fail in the market place

• Visual Radios blogs about how we move towards the "Office in your Pocket" and Mobile user generated content and learning

Let me give you an insight into how we grasp globalization from the peripheries of Europe:

Let's start from Latin America. Mexico is a beautiful country and the long history, starting from Aztecs, Mayas and Incas. The book about Mexico is most exciting. We’ve been reading the book we received from you and are looking forward to visit Mexico soon. Macarena Pallares is coming to Sotkamo, Finland in May 2008. "Olli, Irja, Samuli, Annalena and I are wishing you very much welcome. It will be nice to meet you in Finland again."

This means that we're able to provide that we can provide on-line global networking, knowledge management and social intelligence combined with open innovation and co-creation services to Finnish and international customers. Our national network of expertise ranges over many sectors. Let me mention just a few:

1. Investment opportunities in real estate and innovative companies.
2. Organizing innovative projects based on open source collaboration.
3. How to approach chaos, accept the unstructured and let evolution carry work in progress.

• Open Social

• Hyperlocal

• Global

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SERVICES

- Macarena, we spoke with Olli a few days ago about your interest to work or take translation of other assignments from Finnish companies looking for business opportunities in Spanish speaking countries and / or Latin America.

- Looking at your excellent résumé, I think you and Olli could also provide blogging, social media, Wikipedia, knowledge transfer support to Finnish companies in need for fluent communication skills in addition to Spanish, also in French and English.

I also know from recent Skype conversations with Olli that you have a broad international network that has been developing over they years. Your and Olli’s studies at the Technical University of Troyes explains the French connection, and you mention in your CV about studies in Boston (Harward) and Texas, US.

Business Communication and Social Media Services

1. Finnish

2. Swedish

3. English

4. French

5. Spanish

6. German

SPANISH, FRENCH AND ENGLISH

I’ll send a copy of this e-mail to some of the companies we’re working with, and to Finnish business people we happen to know. I’ll ask them kindly to respond to you and Olli if they have assignments and work available.

It’s my understanding that you would both be able to start on a short notice, and you’re staying in Finland from May to August 2008.

I try to think about some companies and individuals in need for your skills, knowledge and experience. For those who would like to have Macarena Pallare's and Olli Kallio’s CV please take a look at the word documents.

Macarena, wishing you and your family a great week-end, we all hope to see you over in Finland again soon.

Greetings from Olli, Irja, Samuli, Annalena, Helge

Best regards

Helge Keitel
Phone + 358 50 309 2021
Skype: visualradio

Nik Butler, this blog is long like the Finnish winter used to be. I'd like to have your comments. Have a great day and, yes congratulations to the new child.

New Millennium PR Andrea Weckerle

New Millennium PR: "Last week I was at the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Research Symposium and Summit 2007 in Las Vegas, which, in my mind, is one of the 'must attend' yearly conferences.

Helge: Andrea Weckerle's face is familiar through Twitter and through Facebook.

Along with Jake McKee, I was one of the official conference bloggers. Being a designated blogger is a very different experience that being a regular attendee or even a speaker, and having now worked in that capacity, I have a much deeper respect for what goes into such a seemingly easy task.

Helge: Official event blogger. Hmm, I've never done it. It would be fun to be invited to some place at the dark side of the moon or the other side of the world where people live with their heads downwards.

Aside from the typical challenges of racing from one session to the next, making sure your computer battery doesn't run out of juice when there is no available plug, being flexible with program and panelist changes, and writing without the luxury of reviewing and editing what you've written, there is the responsibility of trying to record the highlights of the covered sessions in such a way that readers are able to get value from what you've posted."

Helge: No time to reflect. High speed writing. I do it sometimes. I've to struggle with the language.

November 14, 2005

About Andrea Weckerle

Welcome to Andrea Weckerle’s blog about social media, marketing, current events and other select topics.

Andrea’s Biography

Andrea began her career on the advertising and public relations agencies side in New York City, eventually working as a management consultant at an international professional services firm. A few years later, she began offering a variety of public relations and social media services to agencies, associations, organizations and a host of other client through her boutique consultancy. She now works at a San Francisco, California communications agency as a New Media Strategist.

Helge: Good to know.

Using the skills she learned as a former management consultant, licensed attorney and trained mediator – the ability to understand a broad range of issues, think strategically, and condense large amounts of complex information into a succinct message – she has served clients ranging in size from entrepreneurs and sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies.

Helge: From start-ups to mastodons.

Interests

Helping clients communicate more effectively in an increasingly complex public relations and marketing landscape.

Helge: I blog about people I meet on Twitter. Writing and analyzing the persons texts and profiles makes them more familiar. Most of the people I meet on Twitter and over the Social Media, I've never seen or met alive.

It's Not a Lecture Blog

It's Not a Lecture: "About This Blog 'Companies and the mainstream media grew accustomed to being the only ones speaking, much like a lecture format. Today, it's a discussion, and it's happening in real time.'

This is a quote from blogger Mark Nickolas in an interview about the influence of blogs for a Business Lexington column. This blog is dedicated to examining how businesses, organizations, and the government are abandoning the lecture and entering the discussion online.

Helge: Learned about David Wescott today when he started to follow my Twitter.

This is a personal web log written by David Wescott. David is a public affairs professional specializing in issues-based online communication and outreach. David has developed and implemented online outreach strategies on issues such as health care, education, energy, the environment, feminism, and housing finance. He works for a global firm and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He also writes 'Living Locally, Working Globally' for Business Lexington.

David has also worked as a legislative assistant to a US Senator and as an administrator for a pediatrics department in a public hospital.

The opinions expressed here belong to David and only to David -- they are not necessarily shared by his employer."

Writing can be a lot of fun

What is the most fun part of your job? What is the passion in your work? Working on Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. I also write a blog; I write several blogs and in several languages.

Is there anything we should go out seeing in the social media jungle? What's worth while?

You have more visitors than I, that's should be true for most of my readers. Finland is a small country and most of my readers come from somewhere else. I'm however no big name.

Need to tell you that the channel strategy I started to change a year ago is going in the right direction. I'm not busy with the final result.

Experimenting with different themes and writing styles is most important. One thing is going to change. I'll stop using "justifying full".

I'd like to become more artistic and creative. I was listening to Robert Scoble and Larry Hryb speaking about Xbox, blogging and CES.

Video | Posted by Robert Scoble | January 18th, 2008 12:48 pm

Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft's most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he's seeing.

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6 Things Regular People Aren’t Doing on the Internet | Frank Gilroy Was Here

6 Things Regular People Aren’t Doing on the Internet | Frank Gilroy Was Here: "6 Things Regular People Aren’t Doing on the Internet

Posted January 23rd @ 11:15 pm by Frank

I consider myself a pretty well rounded guy. I know I’m a geek and consider it a term of endearment. On the other hand I’ve got a fairly eclectic set of friends, family and co-workers that posses varying degrees of technical savvy.

It’s occurred to me recently however, that even though I work in IT I have very few friends or acquaintances these days that are truly web savvy. Here is a quick list, off the top of my head, of 6 things I don’t think average people do on the Internet."