With my “hiring/getting hired in a 2.0 world“-themed Social Media Breakfast coming up on Thursday, I thought today would be a good a day as any to launch a new series on this blog called Social Media and Your Career. Here’s the first installment …

A great way to maximize your networking opportunities at face-to-face events […]

A few weeks ago, Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington blogged about a phone call he received from a Comcast executive, just 20 minutes after “tearing into [the company] on Twitter” over his extended Internet outage.
Probably not a coincidence, right?
And as it turns out, the cable company/Internet service provider is routinely following and responding to complaints and […]

It’s times like right now, when Twitter is once again struggling with absurdly bad performance issues and showing me posts from Neville Hobson (or @Jangles) on Twitter) wishing all his followers a “happy Sunday morning” — when it’s actually a little after midnight on Tuesday morning — on my most “recent” page of tweets […]

The value of tag clouds is that they give us an excellent visual representation of the words, phrases, or tags that we’re using most often. You’ll often see them on blog sidebars, or on folksonomy-built sites such as Flickr and Delicious.
My new favorite blogger and Twitter pal, Sam Lawrence, blogged yesterday about a new site […]

When weak-ass blog or event pitches find their way to my e-mail inbox, I generally delete them without much thought.
But occasionally, a combination of snarkiness and curiosity takes over, and I find the need to fire back with a message of my own to the lazy/clueless e-mailer about his or her brain-dead pitch.
Yesterday was one […]

I’m ever so grateful to Feedburner for making it drop-dead easy to port my subscribers from my old blog to this one.
All I had to do was update the “original feed” field (see the second box in the screenshot below) in my former blog’s Feedburner account to be sure it reflected the RSS feed of […]

I’ve got nothing against blogrolls. In fact, I often tell social media newbies who are looking to find and follow influential bloggers in a particular field to start with one blogger and then follow the links from his/her blogrolls.
But blogrolls can also lead you to plenty of dead ends, too. As Neville Hobson rightly points […]

As much as I’m generally quick to sing the praises of WordPress, it isn’t exactly the simplest blog platform for the beginning blogger. The user interface — even with the apparent major upgrades in the shiny new version 2.5 — can be far too overwhelming for the person who only needs a blog platform for […]

As I mentioned in a blog post a couple of weeks ago, Twittering about the Boston Red Sox was a big part of my initiation into the microblogging world in 2007. But until yesterday, the Twitterer whose Red Sox Tweets I saw before anyone else’s, last April — @RedSoxCast — remained more or less a […]

Christopher Penn hits the nail on the head when describing the educational value of podcasting:
With as much content as we have available to us - TED Talks, Google Talks, Google Employee Discussions, NY 2012, PodCamps, etc. - if you own the gear and don’t arrive at your destination smarter than you left, you’re not taking […]