Introduction
Hello, this is my first official blog post on WordPress! I’ll add more info about myself later on. Thanks for reading. Filed under: New Beginnings Tagged: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's...
View ArticleSocial Media Survival
Question: Is social media necessary? Answer: Yes and no; however, if you want to survive in today’s highly networked world that is a big YES! I would rather live under a rock than peck-type this blog...
View Article“No Slack” and the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles
My personal challenge coins of the 327th Infantry Regiment and the U.S. Army About fourteen years ago today, I arrived at my new U.S. Army unit, which was HHC 2nd Battalion – 327th Infantry Regiment,...
View ArticleCompany Transparency and Social Media (of the masses)
Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, as social media platforms, are effective at spreading information to the world-wide web on a much expansive net than merely having a basic website. The use of the...
View ArticleWhy An Online Presence? (Like A Gnat Attracted to Sweetness)
Why is it necessary to have an online presence? Without an identity or a brand no one will know who you are, what you represent or pretend to signify, when you existed or that you ever lived, were...
View ArticleSocial Media Two-Way Relationships or that Circle of Life Thing!
Marsha Friedman’s “How do Mainstream Media Use Social Media?” stresses important what she calls relationships, especially the two-way type between businesses and consumers. The relationships that she...
View ArticleCracking Tough Nuts!
An appeal to curiosity, open dialogue & discussion, will drive the interest for my own personal blog. Additionally, open-ended questions are instrumental to an all around discussion in a two-way...
View ArticleOf Kings and a Queen
Camille Bautista’s “Social Media Users Say Pinterest Is as Popular as Twitter” sparks interest in the great debate about users who favor words over those preferring images. In her post, she...
View ArticleBeware the Trojan Bandwagon of New Social Media (Sorry USC, lol)
New social media tools come and go and wax and wane, some are effective for a brief moment, while others are a fad and quickly vanish, ignored because of the bandwagoning effect, or dismissed through...
View ArticleVolunteering at Goodwill of Grand Rapids
Apologies for not blogging in a while. Okay, so that last quarter of my marketing and new media courses were semi-intense, especially that fun copy-writing stuff made it difficult to even write a...
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