Do You Have a Digital Business Card? (Register for .tel for free)...

We all want to be found more easily online when our friends, potential clients and employers Google us. We've set up our LinkedIn profiles, started blogging, created websites, invited others to be our friends on Facebook and tweeted like crazy on Twitter. With all of these fragmented presences online, wouldn't it be nice to have a directory of all the places we can be found, plus the option to include our email address, phone number and tags which help the right people find us and get in touch?

What is Your Favorite “Real-time” Tool?...

The theme of LeWeb '09 was "The Realtime Web," but what exactly "is" realtime? And, at what point, do realtime tools stop being new toys which only geeky people use and start becoming so embedded into our everyday lives that we don't really think about them, but can't imagine living without them?

Creating Evangelists: Social Media the Cirque du Soleil Way...

As part of Cirque du Soleil's social media strategy, a number of bloggers attending BlogWorld in Las Vegas were invited to attend one of their fabulous shows. With six completely different Cirque shows in Las Vegas, choosing one proved a daunting task. As a result, I am now official ruined. It is hard to imagine any theatrical experience topping the feast for the senses that is LOVE, Cirque's tribute to The Beatles. It is a high energy show in which cast members defy gravity and the line between performance space and audience members is blurred. It's as if LOVE dug deep into my imagination and created it all on stage, and making it all much cooler and more psychedelic in the process.

New to Social Media? Step 1: Be a Consumer...

In the last post, you heard Chris Brogan describe how important having a blog can become in the quest to be found more readily online. Should you be thinking about taking the plunge, you'll want to be sure to watch this video first. Today, bestselling author Jennifer Kushell suggests taking the time to become familiar with what others are doing online before feeling the pressure to jump feel first into social media.

Blogging – Just Do It!...

Holy Toledo, am I having a great time at BlogWorld! I'm exhausted, energized, and inspired. In my last post, I invited you to share your questions about blogs and blogging and promised that I'd seek out various bloggers to share their thoughts and advice. You certainly didn't disappoint! You sent your questions via Twitter, the AlmostSavvy Facebook page, and comments on my blog.

What Happens in Vegas… (Or How to Ruin a Reputation With Just On...

Loudly, and repeatedly, the members of the bachelorette party proclaimed, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," as they lifted their drinks aloft.

Multiple Personalities...

Melanie, a good friend of mine, has multiple personalities. At least, it might appear this way if all you knew about her was what you found online. Even though I?ve known her for years, a simple online search yielded results which surprised me. Several of the sites listed in the search engine results included information [...]

If I ignore bad publicity, does that mean it isn’t there?...

Big companies, small businesses – we all work very hard to deliver an extraordinary product or service to our customers. We want happy customers and employees and will generally do (almost) anything to keep them happy. Despite our best efforts, there will be times when someone is dissatisfied and complains. These days, they don’t always [...]