Social Media/Web 2.0

I'm happy to announce that I've joined Connie Reece and several other expert social media colleagues at Austin, Texas-based Reece & Company, "savvy communications for the digital age." We offer a series of hands-on, practical, no fear workshops to teach people how to use social media tools and applications. Our last workshop, Learn Three Web 2.0 Tools in Three Hours, covered LinkedIn professional networking, Twitter and simple online video like YouTube. Attendees also received a USB flash/thumb drive preloaded with useful Web 2.0 links and guidance. The next workshop is an all-day blogging event, scheduled for Wednesday, September 17, 2008, in Austin. Details to follow soon! Please visit us at our associated blogs: ** Every Dot Connects (a Top 25 marketing blog) ** Social Media Club Austin.

What the heck is Twitter? It's just another social media tool for connecting; sort of a way to IM/chat worldwide with lots of people. I saw it for the first time at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) 2007. To shed some light, I wrote a guest post for the very active Australian site ProBlogger: Why Twitter Isn't a Waste of Time

Over and over, I hear the same question....how do I get traffic to my blog? Here is my answer for corporate and B2B blogging, published in the monthly Bulldog Solutions Marketing Watchdog Journal: How to Build a Blog that Draws a Crowd