Exploring the intersection of life, running and the business of online communities
One of the most important things you can do to increase engagement and adoption of an enterprise social network (ESN) and employee community is to invest time and resources in branding and marketing it. At Walgreens we’ve invested a lot […]
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to speak at the J Boye intranet conference. During the conference I shared the story about how at Walgreens we’re using community management strategies to roll out a new social intranet, develop an internal […]
It’s inspiring and encouraging to see how much Community Manager Appreciation Day has evolved since it was started in 2010. Four years later CMAD has become the dedicated day to not only give thanks to community managers and recognize them […]
Continuing our exploration of community management and social media, here’s a video and the deck from a presentation I gave when I spoke at the Socialmedia.org Blogwell event in New York City. My talk was about how, at Walgreens, we’re using […]
Continuing our exploration of sites, apps, tools, other cool stuf for concert fans, we’ve been experimenting with the new social media bookmarking site Pinterest. It’s a great site and we’ve posted several boards for you to enjoy. Here’s our […]
Continuing our exploration into community management I’d like to share another story with you. My view from the jury box in the Hatton W. Sumners Courtroom during the Socialmedia.org Dallas Blogwell conference made it seem like Level 3’s case study was on […]
Continuing our new exploration into community management and social business, I wanted to pass along info about two local events that I’ll be checking out the next couple of days. The first one is Thursday night as Social Media Club […]
Social media and concert history were made this week as Tiesto, Twitter and HP teamed up at CES 2012 to deliver a live stream of the Dutch DJ rocking the a VIP crowd from the booth. And the event was […]
As you know, we’ve been exploring how Google Plus and Hangouts are allowing fans and bands to connect in new and intimate ways to revolutionize the virtual concert experience. Now, we’d like to share with you a very interesting […]
Last night we had a great time continuing our Google Plus Experiment by hosting and joining in a Hangout. And I have to say that I’m even more pumped and excited as I was before about using the social […]
I’ve been having lots of fun on Google Plus these last couple months. Ever since I got my invite I’ve been playing around with it to see what the value of the social network is for concert fans. And I […]
We’ve shared stories about gourmet Mastodon burgers and their latest live album. And now we’d like to share with you news about how heavy metal rockers Mastodon will team up with Vans to host a special live “in studio” […]
It’s no surprise that social media is changing how we experience live music. And after testing out a new Twitter experiment these last couple of months I thought I’d share the results with you and introduce a new weekly feature […]
Continuing our exploration of Live Nation and social media, this past weekend I noticed that Live Nation asked concert fans a very interesting question on their Facebook page. And I’d like to ask you the same one too, but in […]