Archive for July, 2009

You Are NOT Entitled to Free Stuff

Chris Brogan chatted with me this morning via video on chrisbrogan.com, about an incident where an unnamed blogger approached George Smith Jr. of Krocs and apparently demanded free products by making a threat of writing negative content if George didn’t give in to the blogger’s demands.

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Building Connections Through Crowd Sourcing on LinkedIn

My friend Perry Maughmer is is a LinkedIn networking guru. His ideas on using the crowd sourcing functionality that LinkedIn delivers are out of this world. Those of you who attended the Business First Social Media Summer Camp series saw this clip in my presentation. If that’s you, please feel free to watch it again and share it around. Perry’s approach to building a personal network of subject matter experts through crowd sourcing on social networks has allowed him connect with some high level relationships, leading to return on network opportunity.

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