Tag: Social media

Before I begin this story, let me make it clear that I am in no way making light of mental illness or the unimaginable pain and suffering that those with mental illness often suffer. And as you’ll see from the story, the reference regarding mental illness was not mine, but directed at me. This is…

[First part of the story, Why Government Agencies Need a Social Media Policy…] Had a good talk with the Community Relations Manager for the City of Tacoma regarding the previous post and the events surrounding it in November. As it turns out, my initial email to my then-Councilman had more effect than I would have…

Subtitle: How Tacoma Has No Clue May Want to Revisit Theirs(see Update at bottom of post–this post is in flux) Those of us in the Seattle-Tacoma area experienced a real awakening of social media in the aftermath of the killing of our four officers on November 29th, a day few of us will ever forget.…

Twitter came of age the past few days. Not hyperbole, I believe, but during the crisis of our four slain police officers and the ensuing manhunt, Twitter was used by citizens, news organizations, and some public agencies to effectively disseminate information in a new and very effective way. Some were very effective–others less so, including…

Six Degrees of Separation, for those that don’t know, is the idea that everyone is at most six degrees away from any other person on Earth. Social networking puts this to the test: you connect to people you know, and those people are connected to who they know, and so on. Yesterday the idea failed…

Storm Trooper and Droid reminding me that Christmas is over and demanding that I get off Facebook and Twitter for a bit. Normally I’d be able to take them both out, but…..1. They are right. I do need to get some things done today.2. They brought additional muscle. Se below. General Grievous means business. Speaking…

Necessity may not truly be the mother of invention, but the frustrations with not having an adequate or suitable solution to an issue almost always is. Enter John Hingley. In 2003 he founded a company that focused on brand marketing and product launches using social media only, and was very successful. But what he couldn’t…

Earlier this week I got an interesting visit to the blog, and after a short bit of research, discovered it had come from a company that does brand monitoring. With all that happened over the weekend with Subway, I expected it to have come from that. But took a chance to see if the company…