Every Dot Connects

Is your communications strategy stuck here?

Do you know what these are? They were the height of communications convenience at one time. They were everywhere. Everyone knew how to use them. Now, they’re seen less and less, and most folks chuckle a bit when they spot one. The communications world has passed them by. Did they see it coming? I’ll bet [...]

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Shaking the social media tree in the tourism business

I’m doing some writing and marketing work for the travel site UpTake; in addition to hosting my Carnival of Cities blog carnival periodically on their Attractions blog, I’ll be covering travel industry social media topics on the UpTake Travel Industry blog. To get started with a bit of a bang, I wrote two posts this [...]

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Teaching the teachers: what we’ve learned from our social media workshops

In June 2008, after a lot of talks with Connie Reece, reflection time at the SOBCon conference and great advice from both Small Biz Survival’s Becky McCray and Successful Blog’s Liz Strauss, we began to teach a series of entry-level Every Dot Connects social media workshops. Connie, Jennifer Navarrete and I knew that we had [...]

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Why this travel writer is going on a tech tour in China

(This is cross-posted on the Perceptive Travel blog and my Family Travel blog on BootsnAll.) I know that I’m a very fortunate freelance writer and social media/Web 2.0 trainer; I have a military pension and health insurance from my 22+ years in the US Navy. I can ride out the current economic storm (with a [...]

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Ever I Saw Your Face: The Lure of Conferences

Conference-hopping is probably not the best use of your time, if it’s just for the sake of racking up those badges, schwag laptop bags and stacks of business cards that you’ll never look at again. Are you stuck on a social media conference circuit, hearing some of the same speakers again and again? Why do [...]

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