by Bill Wren on July 22, 2011
Although I’m using Google+ I know absolutely nothing about it. And I’ve yet to find the time to really explore it. The comforting thing is knowing that no one else knows anything about it. Everything is speculation. People using it now are early adopters — and that is worrisome. Early adopters tend to be more [...]
by Bill Wren on February 1, 2011
This is a question I’ve been mulling over a while now. I know social media is social but I wonder if it isn’t social in a way that displaces – or perhaps the correct word is “replaces” – another form of sociability. Increasingly, I see people with their smartphones walking around talking and texting and [...]
by Bill Wren on July 8, 2010
You’re a small business owner and you have to get on that social media thing. Everybody says so. Everything you read says so. You can’t turn around without someone asking what you’re doing with social media. And you’ve looked at it. You’ve been on Twitter and Facebook and you’ve read articles and you’ve talked to [...]
by Bill Wren on June 8, 2010
I wrote a review of a book I’m currently rereading, Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison. (You’ll find it over at Thoughtwrestling.) This morning, I was looking over a chapter titled “Throwing up rockets,” a phrase from P.T. Barnum and it started me thinking about a few other things, like school murals [...]
by Bill Wren on May 27, 2010
Many businesses, especially small businesses, are wary of social media and for a variety of reasons. The reasons are legitimate given that owners are wrapped up in the business of actually running their business, so they are often in uncharted territory with very little time. One of the biggest reasons, and biggest pitfalls, is: What [...]
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