I received an email today that said I’m a “Twitter snob”. The reasoning behind it was that my follow-to-follower ratio was skewed – I had more followers than people I follow. Therefore, I wasn’t using Twitter correctly; instead of following everyone back that followed me (which I should be doing, according to the email), I was obviously a snob that only followed the “elite” and I should “re-evaluate my Twitter use”. The email ended by saying I shouldn’t advise on…

Despite its obvious benefits for communication, interaction and connecting, Twitter still finds itself labeled as a fad. (And my apologies to Chris Brogan who asked us not to talk about Twitter in 2009 – my bad!). Maybe it is a fad – maybe the detractors are right. But in the meantime, if you want to see why it’s so popular and why it’s hailed as one of the friendliest social media networks around, look no further than FollowFriday, where people…

Image by william.n via Flickr How well do you keep your personal and business life separate? Are you able to separate the two relatively easy, or do they crossover too much to have significantly different views? Or to put it another way, if you had a personal issue with someone could you still work with them professionally? I ask this as a situation arose today where I had to question whether I was in the wrong, someone else was, or…

Image via Wikipedia Can you remember when television was called the root of all evil? How it was blamed for desensitizing kids and breaking up the family fibre? American author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote a book about it in 1985, called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman’s argument was that television lessened the educational growth of people, as well as dumbed down arguments, by going for entertainment and images over political discourse and more serious issues. While there’s no…

Carl Sagan once spoke of our world as a pale blue dot. Of how its size was just a pebble against the vaster landscape that surrounds it. Most of all, he spoke of it as OUR world. It’s up to us how it’s shaped, and how those in it shape it. What part are you playing?

One of the Holy Grails for the online community is to involve the offline one more. Building bridges between those using technology and those who don’t see its worth. Finding ways to communicate the value of both communities to each other is key. Can it be as simple as bridging the differences between towns and cities?

Finding your way in social media can often create as many problems as not being involved in the first place. Yet one thing that can’t be argued is that you should be looking at a social media presence. In this guest post from Jacob Morgan, he asks whether you should take your time or jump straight in.

Twitter is one of the most effective tools on social media at the moment with a variety of uses. Personal, business, branding, communication – all these and more can be found using the micro-blogging site. So why does it continue to be such a hard sell to businesses? Can it be simplified?

For bloggers, paid or sponsored blogging is becoming more widespread as brands recognize the value of major league bloggers and their audience. Get the right review and it could mean a spike in sales. Yet does paid or sponsored blogging take away the authority of the blogger in question? Or can a blog post still be transparent and honest even if it’s paid for?

The world moves quickly around us. It’s not always a nice place to be and sometimes it’s hard to keep things going when everything seems against us. Yet one thing that always gets us through are our friends. Do we show them how thankful we are often enough?