Last week I had the pleasure of joining a couple hundred social media, marketing and business colleagues at the BlogWell conference in Chicago. Sponsored by GasPedal and the Blog Council, the purpose of the conference was to pack eight excellent large corporation social media case studies into one afternoon. Too much good stuff for one […]

I’ve always been intrigued by how Government would adopt social media. Having worked as a Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Navy, I’m privy to the heavy bureaucratic constraints that often make it seem darn near impossible to push projects along and meet deadlines. Our communications process and structure in the Navy was very defined. […]

Admit it. The first time you got over the hump and signed up for Twitter, you freaked out. All you could think about were those four seemingly invasive, yet all too vague words: What are you doing? The thought process then may have gone something like this… What am I doing?! Me?!! Well, I’m typing […]