File this one under self-serving if you like, but I feel a little like a proud new parent.  SMTodaymedia (which is basically me and Robin Carey and a virtual cast of thousands) has just launched a new social community called the Cleantech Collective.  It’s similar in concept to our Social Media Today community in that it brings […]

Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on hard times, has just rolled out a new beta online platform that it hopes will reduce computing costs and attract new readers and advertisers through the addition of a number of social […]

Susan Scrupski, one of the brightest (and nicest) people I’ve met in my Enterprise Web 2.0 adventures, recently became Chief of Applied Research at Austin-based BSG Alliance, which bills itself as “as the total platform – from a strategic advisory, business process support, and technology design & deployment perspective – for Next Generation Enterprises, On Demand.”  
She and Nick Vitalardi had […]

It’s a cold day in hell pretty rare when a large company invites bloggers to sit in on (and actively participate in) a real working marketing strategy session but SAP, the once reclusive software giant that has embraced social media in a huge way, did just that Tuesday by inviting Jeff Nolan, Jason Wood and myself to join the SAP Social Media Summit in […]

Jimmy Breslin’s famous query about the hapless 1962 New York Mets seems apropos of many PR “professionals” these days as they scramble to turn those inviting “Comments” sections of blogs into promotional nuggets for their clients.   Many of these nuggets are so blatantly obvious and written in such PR mush that they have the undesired effect […]

Now we know why Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has starting updating his blog again after a long hiatus between posts:  he’s been gearing up to defend himself from the revelation that on several occasions he tried to drive down the stock price of his smaller rival Wild Oats by leaving unflattering pseudononymous comments on online investor forums.  Whole Foods has since acquired Wild Oats. 
Both […]

You knew it was only a matter of time.  Techrigy Inc., a Rochester, New York startup, has launched a new “social media compliance product” called SM2 that scans through a company’s intranet servers to find social media, likes blogs, running internally, as well as the internet externally to find employees talking about the company from their blogs or […]

One of the many reasons things have been quiet around here lately is that my longtime friend and sometime collaborator Robin Fray Carey have been sorting out exactly how we might add value (and perhaps make a couple of bucks) in the social media consulting marketplace. 
There is no shortage of talent out there but I like to […]

While doing a little research on blogging platforms this morning, I was startled to be reminded that WordPress, which is far and away best of breed IMHO and feels like it has been around forever, has been in open circulation for less than two years now.  The Blogger folks started in 1999, Ben and Mena […]

A hot topic among social media bloggers these days is exactly which big companies “get” the value of connectedness, community and emergent technologies and which don’t.  A subsidiary discussion to that is around which traditionally managed corporations are jumping on the bandwagon for PR reasons because they want to be seen as one of the cool kids and which ones are actually […]