Archive for August, 2009

NATO and SSG Salmons

Those familiar with the social media educational process (in case you're lost, there isn't one--flat joke) knows that you usually start with the basics (ok, maybe there is a quasi formula--start at the beginning and move forward...that works)[ READ MORE ]

Trends versus platforms

It's important to remember we are in the business of communication, not for arguing for social media per se. If the world moved beyond social media (which the world is doing), I would move with it, for the sake of being the best communicator I can be. If people all started using sign language and nothing else, to be a good PA professional, I'd shift my zeal for social media to sign language[ READ MORE ]

Leaving the room I’m not in anyway

The idea is that many social media trends (blogs, wikis, social networks, file sharing) are translatable to business practices. Translatable, that is, once culture is revolutionized. Otherwise, leveraging social media is like selling a new printer to someone without a computer[ READ MORE ]

Koobface returns! Quick, ban all social media!

Social media is the new communication paradigm. We should stop running away from it at the first clap of thunder. Threats and risk shouldn't lead us to catatonic inaction[ READ MORE ]

For the love of the game

For all the gripes or beat downs that I might chronicle in this blog, I wanted to lead off with the sentiment that I'm very blessed. Critiques or venting done here are really to show the absurdity (in my opinion) of how we in the military often operate--one example being our schizophrenic relationship with social media[ READ MORE ]

Spinning up

The nay-sayers sprouted up in their initial protests, which is usually enough to beat the enthusiast down. I didn't buy it, though. I was a user. I believed in this stuff. I persisted[ READ MORE ]

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