Cara Mandart’s Blog
Yes, my company “Black Dog Social Media” was named after a Dave Mathews Band Song. My first love was a black lab , I named him after DMB’s “Crash Into Me.” Crash was from a great breeder: honest, smart, loyal, fun and strong. All the things that are important in social media. Corny, but true. Black [...]
We Google Buzz users, through behavior shifts, are contributing to defining what’s important in the future of social media. Are we GeeBee’s being monitored by the Google “Others” to see how we organize our followers, what content we respond to, and so on? I love this post that I found while buzzin’ around my Gmail. I [...]
Continue reading about Google Buzz a “Lost” Dharma Experiment?
Do Twitter followers mean anything to you? One way to find out is with this cool mashup site: Key in your Twitter name and it creates a word cloud from your Twitter flock. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at what shows up. See mine here : @caramandart. The words that stood out on mine were
How cool would it be to tell your boss you aren’t comin’ back to work on Twitter? That’s what Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems did. So the next day he tweets that he wants to write a book about the experience and asking his followers to tell what they want him to write about. [...]
Last year I lost my job. Ten years at one company and my anniversary gift is unemployment. I immediately knew that all the networking I had done for my job was the key to my next career. Small talk always lead to loyal clients. Monster.com was not the answer. My resume against thousands of others! How [...]
Continue reading about Social Media Cure for Unemployment Blues
A Blog is not a Newsletter. It is a conversation starter. Here are my top 10 tips:
Continue reading about Blogging? Forget What Your English Teacher Taught You!
Comfy in your chair right now? Take a glimpse at whats happening right now on Haiti, through eyes of those tweeting from Haiti. I am in awe of how Twitter can be used for such social good. There are people looking for others. People depicting their surroundings. People crying out asking for us to give [...]
I’m on Twitter. (shocking, I know) #BiggestLoser is on! Notice that # sign I used? Thats a hashtag. (old school pound sign) I don’t know when they changed it to hashtag.) Suddenly I am updating someone I never knew before. She isn’t at home and is #desperate for #biggestloser updates. And then we’re talking back [...]
