In part II of my conversation with Michelle Chmielewski, we’ll talk about how she found her blogging niche, how she’s built a following and what happens when things go viral. If you’ve missed part I – click here. We talk about Michelle’s move from Utica to Paris, what her role of a community manager was like…
I had the pleasure of sitting down (via Skype) with Michelle Chmielewski who is a native Utican (my home town) living in Paris, France. Michelle is a blogger and works in community management for Synthesio and will soon be moving to Seesmic. Her video blogs about life in Paris are ones I’ve been following for…
Yet another politician caught philandering (digitally) within 140 characters. Surprising? Not really. I’m disappointed (again) because I actually agree with a lot of Rep. Weiner’s positions on policy and really think that something like this, rightly or wrongly, could end a political career. It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up. But I’m also surprised…
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the different types of pay walls and freemium services that exist throughout the web and the likelihood of people ponying up to pay for content. It’s a fundamental issue of supply and demand. With an infinite amount of content, does the value of most content drop to…
Think about how much of your life is stored online. Between your daily Facebook status updates, your ‘Likes’, emails, Google +1 recommendations, your Netflix queue and history, and your purchases via iTunes and Amazon – that’s a lot of information about you that is used not only for advertising purposes but also to make recommendations…
Yesterday I was listening to the Diane Rehm program, as I often do – and really got into her interview with Suzanne Marrs who had written a book covering the lengthy correspondence between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty and her New Yorker editor and fellow writer William Maxwell. For more than 50 years, they corresponded…
In my opinion – the tool in the social media toolbox that is the most underrated and that folks that I talk to at businesses know the least about is RSS. So here’s a quick primer. What the F*%$ is RSS? It’s a great way to keep tabs on your favorite blogs and websites without…
I’ve been a big fan of the photoblogs that Ree (Pioneer Woman), Kathleen Connally (A Walk Through Durham Township), Amanda Pair and the Boston Globe have been running for a long time now. Other friends like Bernie at Medraw and Erin’s Photo 365 project have been trying to do a photo (or sketch) every day…