Need Permission for Social Media Monitoring?
Depending on how traditional your organization is and their reluctance to adopt social media practices, it can’t be worse than this video. Here’s an extreme example from the pharmaceutical industry where the legal adviser cannot even authorize listening in the social media space. Show it to your boss next time they tell you that you can’t do something. Read More →
Buick Tweetup in Greensboro
On Friday night I drove to Greensboro to attend a Tweetup sponsored by Buick. It was at a cool restaurant called Liberty Oak. We were upstairs on a loft overlooking the dining room. Some of their social media team and designers were in the area for the High Point Furniture Market. They are thinking about the design of the interior of their cars in new ways that relate to home design, and were looking for feedback and input from other designers. Since... [Read More...]
My Media Exposure Continues: Interviewed about Foursquare Launch in Raleigh
Yesterday I was contacted by Tyler Dukes from News 14 Carolina, our local cable news channel, requesting an interview about the launch a Foursquare, a location-based social network. The program has rolled out in a number of larger cities, and just added Raleigh to its roster of nearly 40 cities. Here’s the text of the complete article below, and here’s the link to read it in context. And, yes, they did call me Jeffrey, but I told them... [Read More...]
Quoted in News & Observer about Deep Fried Triangle Tweetup
Today’s Raleigh News & Observer features an article about the upcoming NC State Fair and the Deep Fried Triangle Tweetup that my business partners and I helped organize. Even if you don’t play the plastic guitar or send text messages to your BFFs, you’ll be welcome at the first Deep Fried Triangle Tweetup, an event organized with OurHashtag, a Triangle-based social media group. The group tries to host tweetups each quarter,... [Read More...]
State Fair using social networks to sell tickets
The following article is from the UNC Daily Tar Heel about my work with the State Fair press office and their social media team. The article also quotes Chapel Hill native and American Idol participant, Anoop. I have copied the entire article below to make sure I have the article in the future. The N.C. State Fair is Tweeting, blogging and Facebooking its way to an unprecedented increase in ticket sales. The fair’s social networking outreach,... [Read More...]
What I Have Learned Drinking Wine
My friend Ilina writes a blog called Dirt and Noise, where she publishes a regular Friday feature about a 5:00 cocktail. She recently asked for guest contributors, and I volunteered. I wrote about a wine that we tasted on NorthCarolinaWine.TV, but it was more about what I have learned by drinking wine. Today’s 5:00 Fridays post is not about a cocktail you can make at home, but about a kind of wine. Actually, it is less about a particular bottle... [Read More...]
Three Goals, Shared Three Ways
In yesterday’s soccer game, my son Peter scored three goals. It was the second game of the season and his team lost 4-3. The impressive thing about this, as a proud soccer dad, is that he has not played organized soccer in 5 years. Soccer was his first organized sport at 4, and I was one of his coaches. He developed a love for football, and started playing when he was old enough (seven). Now that he has discovered he is more interested in watching... [Read More...]
Did the Universe Just Change? Mom Leaves Blog Comment!
Several years ago, when I still had a blogroll I added the blog of Danny Miller. He is a freelance writer living in LA, but he is also the brother-in-law of Wilco frontman, Jeff Tweedy. I would visit the blog occasionally, but my mom became a regular reader. She recently forwarded me an email she received from Danny Miller in response to a comment she left on his blog. Danny and his wife gave birth to a premature son, and as bloggers are wont to do,... [Read More...]
Online Wine Show Featured in Winston-Salem Newspaper
The online wine show that I co-host and produce was recently featured in an article in the Winston-Salem Journal. Michael Hastings, Journal Food Editor, interviewed Kipp and me separately and wrote the following article. Here’s a link to article, but I have also reproduced it below if that link ever breaks. It was a great article, and people who read the piece went to our site to check out our show. Web site is fresh way to discover N.C. wines Let’s... [Read More...]
Facebook Friends in Real Life Roadtrip
As we add friends on Facebook, even old friends, we sometimes forget that there are real people behind those status updates. Graham took a road trip to meet as many of his Facebook friends as he could in a week. He saw childhood friends, college friends and ex-girlfriends and captured the whole thing on video. Read More →