Yesterday I had the privilege of giving two presentations for the 2009 Virginia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (VACCE) Institute. Bob Leveque, VP Manufacturing, RR Donnelley, provided the keynote address entitled, “The Power of Attitude in Tough Times.”

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this post about SlideShare being a great career tool. Well, today, they have moved up in my book, from beyond a great career tool, to a business that gets it. Here’s what I mean. Today’s been rough. I’ve had to eat crow all morning at home because of [...]

Last Friday was a busy day with a fun surprise that caught me completely off guard! The surprise came as a random act of kindness by a Twitter friend, Dee Stewart. Unbeknownst to me, Dee waged a Twitter campaign to help me reach 2000 followers. A meeting in Charlottesville had me off the grid for [...]

You know how to use airport check in, right? You check the big luggage that you don’t want to carry onto the plane with you. The stuff you take on the plane is the stuff you need in case you loose your luggage (or more aptly put, in case the airline looses your luggage). Carry-on [...]

I’m always intrigued at how the use of social media can benefit a business, non-profit, or ministry related organization. But how about this? Twitter during a live brain surgery. (Note: WITH patient consent.) Thanks to Dr. Ellen F. Weber for the tweet and post. Check out the ABC News segment here. It’s three minutes worth [...]

“It seems like when you give people easier ways to share information, more good things happen.”

Tweet Scan just launched a new product to help Twitter users keep track of what they say (with an optional add @replies). This seems like a really good idea for a couple of reasons. First, I often search my own update log. Since updates only go back as far as ten pages, if I can’t [...]

Networking in real life and social networking are really about reaching out to others. See and be seen leads to reach and be reached. The online tools and real life venues put people in the spaces to make this happen more easily. Here are two examples. Twitter and Gourmet Brownies I was pleasantly surprised today [...]

Thanks to Margaret Clevenstine, news reporter for ABC13 in Central Virginia, for covering social media. You can watch the 41 second segment here This text will be replaced : Is your business using social media/social networking? If so, how? If not, why not?

Central VA TweetUp #1 Live in or near Lynchburg, VA and want to meet other people who are using social networking sites for business? Then meet us for the first ever Central Virginia TweetUp – a meeting of people who may only know each other by their @Twitter nick names. In this case, the gathering [...]