I’m speaking at the Oklahoma Governor’s Conference on Small Business, on October 14, 2011. The conference theme is Igniting Small Business Leaders. Incendiary, but good! My topic is “The Social Network: Marketing Strategies for Today.” If you dropped in from the conference, welcome! You’re in the right place for a copy of the slides and some resource…
Small town businesses and tourism groups are using Twitter for marketing and building community. One of the problems with that can be the limited reach. Twylah is one tool to reach more people, even those who don’t use or maybe don’t even like Twitter. Normal people view a Twitter page as something of a foreign…
What if your town council, your chamber of commerce, and your school board sat down together for a public meeting just to compare calendars? What if these leaders started talking about possible cooperation, shared projects, or mutual goals? What if more local boards and leaders began to participate, aligning their own goals and efforts with…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one September 23-25, 2011. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. Bragging on our 140 Characters this week! What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself…
One of the Napkin Dad’s artworks(c) Marty Coleman, shared from Flickr “I have had a LOT of failures and catastrophes in my life; schools I got kicked out of, a failed marriage, rejection in the art and academic world and physical disasters just to name a few. If I had not had those ‘failures’ and…
Today, Sept 20, 2011, around 140 people from small towns in 18 states and 3 countries will gather in Hutchinson, Kansas, to share ideas, and another 3,000 or so will tune in via live stream online. 2010 140 Conference Small Town, Jeff Pulver and Becky McCray. Photo by Jerry Hirsch It’s the 140 Characters Conference,…
Yes. Use them anyway. While QR Codes will disappear from popular use at some point, the idea of a link from the offline world to the online world won’t change. Whether the next technology is near field communications (NFC) or something we don’t even see yet, you can and will adapt. Believe in the idea of…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one September 16-18, 2011. Sweetgrass basket, by Muffet Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great…
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