Whether you like it or not, you already have a digital footprint that you can’t fully control. People are talking about you; dissecting you; and making decisions about you every day of the week. You don’t even have to be online to have a digital footprint – people and businesses that don’t have an active web presence are being talked about. By their customers; their clients; their past and futures. So if all this talk is going on and you’re late…

“You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” – Ricky Nelson. It’s been an interesting last 24 hours. Abusive emails, character attacks on Twitter and questions about my ethics. Just another day in the life of. Time is an interesting commodity. On the one hand, we love it when time passes quickly so we can see a new movie, or buy a new product, or see a new date. On the other, we complain there’s never enough time…

We are the supercool. That’s not a smug or ego-stroking statement. It’s more a statement of celebration. Why are we supercool? We’re the conversationalists. We’re the network communities. We’re the end user champions. We’re helping to transform business into the way it’s meant to be played. We’re the brand evangelists that the brands are listening to. We’re not the mouthpieces; we’re simply the words. But the words are being heard. We’re the provider and receiver of the eyeballs. We’re the…

This is a guest post from Elaine Young, who I have had some great conversations with recently about small business and social media. Elaine has some interesting views on why so many small businesses aren’t using social media, and I asked her if she’d share them with you. 2008 was the year that Twitter saw adoption grow at an astounding rate. Facebook surpassed 150 million active users and blogging become what seems to be a social norm. But does that…

Now and again you come across something that’s just so cool you wonder why no-one did it earlier. Tonight I found one, thanks to Kevin Sherman – bubbletweet. Allowing you to record a video snippet and then have it displayed on your Twitter page for any new followers or visitors to see, bubbletweet is simple and fun – always a good combination. It also has a lot of potential for both personal and corporate branding. Imagine being able to tell…

Welcome to a first for me (and many others, it would seem). The Social Media Goes Gonzo blog carnival was suggested to me by fellow blogger and provider of invaluable information Kilroy_60. Host of numerous carnivals himself, this is the first social media one and he asked yours truly if I’d be interested in hosting it. So, here we are. The idea behind the carnival is to take you on a journey through the social media blogosphere, and introduce you…

Life can be the hardest journey to take. Setbacks, walls to climb, obstacles to overcome, broken dreams – life isn’t easy and at times it can seem impossible. Yet as life can hold us back, so it can surge us forward as well. For every stumbling block there are a hundred helping hands to guide us past these blocks and onto greatness. How will you get there?

Social media and Twitter go hand-in-hand as two of the leading lights in the world of Web 2.0. Both offer excellent opportunities to build relationships, share advice and help bring the online world together in a way that many non-users could fail to grasp. Lately, however, there’s been a growing trend of “me too” malaise creeping in. Is this the start of the social aspect of social media taking a downward turn?