The Problem with Influence

Ego and big heads

I just read something by a friend that’s both interesting and sad at the same time (and sad as in lame, not as in Bambi). My friend mentioned that he was speaking to a well-known PR guy and author a few months back. The topic of the conversation was a site for bloggers and authors [...]


You’re Not That Big a Deal

So you’re on a couple of thousand Twitter lists. So you write for on online social media news portal. So you got a couple of hundred Diggs of your latest blog post. So what? In the grand scheme of things, you’re not that big a deal. If I share your name with Joe Public, they [...]


The Ego Has Landed (Or Has It?)

ego

Last night on Twitter, I saw a pretty high-profile user retweet a message he’d received from one of his connections. It was high praise about this person, and was retweeted verbatim with no changes to the text. My initial reaction to that was to ask the following question to the Twittersphere: The responses came in [...]