July 30, 2010

Are Blog Comments Dead?

As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs.  Of course, that doesn't mean that interest is declining.  RSS and email subscriptions, site traffic and social sharing may all be continuing to increase.  These are tracked through a variety of tools and even popular commenting system Disqus scours social networks to find blog posts being shared and displays those as "interactions".

January 21, 2010

Sharing Content in Another Stream

On a daily basis I will generally run through between 400-800+ feeds.  Of those, I share the top posts, usually around 30 or so, that I think will be useful for you.  Realizing that a majority of you don't follow my Google Reader feed or may use a different feed reader, I wanted to provide another option for you to access those articles.

September 9, 2009

Twitterville Video Book Review

Today I review Twitterville by Shel Israel.  I enjoyed reading Twitterville because Shel does a great job of telling the stories that have come to make Twitter what many of us love.  The book doesn't provide you with a lot of tactical, go out and do it-type information.  But, what it does do is tell you stories about how Twitter has been used to form communities, trust and relationships.

July 29, 2009

When a Taco Truck Meets Twitter

There has been a lot of buzz around Kogi BBQ, a Korean BBQ taco truck in LA that has used Twitter (@KogiBBQ) to create a phenomenon that produces lines that stretch around street corners to wait for the truck to arrive.  While I travel through LA around once a month, I have yet to stay in LA for any amount of time where I would have the opportunity to visit the Kogi BBQ team and try one of their tacos.

July 28, 2009

Twitter Homepage Refresh

Since many of you probably use a third-party application like TweetDeck or Seesmic, you may not log into the Twitter homepage that often anymore.  Well, it's worth taking a look as Twitter has finally pushed out a refreshed homepage.

July 27, 2009

Google News Should Integrate Twitter Search

One of the primary websites that I check throughout the day is Google News.  I have been in love with this website as a source of news since it was released several years ago.  It allows me to quickly see what's going on in the world and if a particular story interests me, I can view several other news sources who have also reported on it.  This is great for someone like me who likes to consume lots of information from as many different sources as possible.

May 2, 2009

Wading Through the Noise on Twitter

One of the reasons why we all love Twitter is the ability to have instantaneous one-on-one conversations with like-minded folks.  Until recently Twitter was like a closed community to marketing and tech geeks but as more businesses, celebrities and mainstream media pick up on it, Twitter is seeing growth of mind-blowing rates.  Unique visitors grew from 7.9 million in February 2009 to 14 million in March 2009.  So, as Twitter becomes more mainstream, how do you wade through all of the noise and find people to follow and interact with who provide value to you or your business?

April 14, 2009

Lunch with the Pirates – Episode 1 – Welcome to Pirates TV

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April 11, 2009

Twitter as an Advanced Search Engine

twittersearchAs Twitter continues to grow at an alarming rate more and more people are discovering how it's a great platform to engage in meaningful conversations.  However, the real power of Twitter is in it's function as a search engine.  A lot of people use Twitter Search to monitor trending topics and conversations around hashtags while at conferences, events or chatting about a specific topic.  But, one of the features that I don't hear a lot of conversation around is the Advanced Search feature in Twitter Search.

February 25, 2009

Who I Learn From on a Daily Basis

One of the best parts of my day is being able to interact with all of you via this blog, Prime Cuts, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more.  I truly appreciate the conversations that we're able to have and always looking to find ways to engage more.