Time to read: 3 minutes What makes someone an expert? A wise woman once told me that you are an expert “when others come to you for answers”. Well. It does take a little bit more: such as the ability to answer questions, repeatedly, correctly, memorably. There is a requirement to educate, surprise and spread knowledge and skills. Do that […] continue reading »
Category: Social media
Somehow I seem to be a social media expert and evangelist. Try mentioning twitter to me and not having me wax lyrical about how great a communication enabler it is. I dare you. Posts here are about how to use social media, my experience with them, and funny, controversial, or useful things I have found.
how I learnt to stop worrying and love talking to strangers
Time to read: 3 minutes Today I attended a conference run by Digital Doughnut. I knew they did digital, I knew they were related to marketing, and I did meet people who worked in the field. But what blew my mind was the stories, backgrounds and odd serendipities (is that a word?) that brought them to marketing in the first […] continue reading »
7 with 7, and other instagram statistics
Time to read: 2 minutes I’ve been so terrible at writing blog posts, and I love taking photos. I’m still doing my one photo a day project, and I thought a small retrospective on that topic could be interesting. This is all happening on instagram. (the photos in the header of this page? They’re from my instagram feed!) What do […] continue reading »
business banking: branch, web, phone, or twitter? How @metro_bank won
Time to read: 6 minutes The premise: I got a contracting gig.
The daunting task: I needed a business account to be paid into!
And of course, everything that I could do wrong, I did very very very wrong indeed. […] continue reading »
how do you sell yourself, if you hate selling yourself?
Time to read: 3 minutes I was talking to a friend the other day. Ok. We were talking about someone we know. It’s this really great guy, who is incredibly good at his job and has true understanding and vision in his field. But his immediate managers cannot see what he sees. And he finds himself periodically wanting to change […] continue reading »
Can you tell your mother to not read your blog / twitter / facebook? Or why it’s good for other generations (younger or older) to join social media
Time to read: 3 minutes Last week, my mother surprised me when she told me she was reading my blog. This means she googled me, like anyone in the world can. And I was surprised. Why? […] continue reading »
how to make introductions and be a good hostess in 140 characters or less
Time to read: 3 minutes I still remember walking around Hursley, following a fellow tweep who wanted to introduce me to some awesome IBMers he knew. What i did not expect, was for him to use my twitter handle, @eurydice13, as part of the introduction. I am grateful, because by finding me on twitter he may have literally saved my […] continue reading »
do I really need a photo for Linked in?
Time to read: 4 minutes So last week I was kindly requested to take photographs of some of our senior executives, so they could update their various online profiles, both internal and external. I brought my camera in and diligently grabbed a series of portraits. I then cleaned them up, worked some Picasa magic (we don’t have Photoshop here), cropped, […] continue reading »
going social: the split personality conundrum
Time to read: 4 minutes Why is it that despite using context-defining platforms and communities, we often end up having multiple accounts, one for each aspect of our lives? […] continue reading »
my new blog reading tool: bloglovin
Time to read: < 1 minute I’ve just started using bloglovin for reading my blogs. (this is useful for me, you can ignore it: phsyejt6wfk) It’s something like a cross between flipboard and google reader (and it can import google reader’s collection of feeds). You can also follow my exintaris.com blog with Bloglovin. […] continue reading »