How to Balance Your Personal and Professional Lives in Social Media

Does social media make you more comfortable, or less comfortable? For me, it’s both. As my friend Amber Naslund said when I interviewed her on Twitter, social media enables her to have friends that are not dictated by geography or circumstance. And to me, the ability to find people with whom you have a kinship, [...]

What Do Twitter Lists Say About Your Personal Brand?

Taking a long overdue page from the Seesmic and Tweetdeck playbook, Twitter.com recently launched Twitter lists, enabling you to segment the people you follow on Twitter into groups. This is particularly useful in organizing people by industry, geography, or even the type of content they typically tweet. But what’s more interesting is that Twitter Lists [...]

7 Ways to Use Social Media to Build Stunning Brands

Social media is perhaps the most misleading name for a marketing-related concept ever, given that it’s grown to represent a philosophy of consumer empowerment and brand/customer partnership – far beyond it’s humble roots of user-generated content. As a result, social media has different meanings and connotations to different people, many of whom utilize social media [...]