Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation [OPINION]Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation from McGrawHill Business …
A Facebook networking maven, Mari Smith is to social media marketing as peanut butter is to jelly. She’s taught countless social media networkers how social media is done. She’s captivated and cultivated a huge audience of followers across the socialscape.
And she exudes a seemingly limitless love and energy for social media which puts her in a rare group of thought leaders.
Here are some of the latest highlights from the social Mariverse, with a lot of help from a special piece of software…
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Buzz About Mari on Twitter
RT @davidmfong: Nothing will ever take the place of person to person. –Mari Smith #LinkedOC
Game changer!!! Facebook introduced a new feature that allows users to subscribe to PUBLIC updates on PERSONAL profiles. This essentially lifts the 5,000 friend limit on profiles - a lonnnnnnng awaited feature request!
Start Something that Matters - stunning poem by David Bowden, inspired by TOMS Founder & Chief Shoe Giver, Blake Mycoskie and his new book by the same name. Wow, so inspiring. I had to play several times!! Small excerpt: ?What the world is missing is what you have always longed to do… I invite you to find your spark, light your fuse, start something the world can truly use. … Shout your dreams,…
Poem written and performed by David Bowden www.davidbowdenpoetry.com This poem was inspired by the new book, “Start Something that Matters”, by TOMS Founder & Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie. To learn more about the book go to bit.ly With every book …
Wowee!! Facebook launched a brand new game changing feature today: You can now allow non-friends to subscribe to your public posts on your personal profile. It is an optional feature that you can choose to turn on at -http://facebook.com/about/subscriptions. I just wrote up a detailed commentary on G+, and have copied most of it below, and will turn into a blog post asap too. Some key points to k…
Aha! Facebook started sending less emails. Did anyone else get this message today? (see screenshot) There’s now a new global setting on your notifications for only “important updates and summary emails”: http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=notifications&tip=frequency
Do you like? or not? I’m personally not a huge fan of email notifications and have most all turned off.
Public Thanks
I’m sure I can speak for all of your fans Mari; we love what you do in social media. You bring value. You bring the goods. And a lot of people have learned a lot from you when it comes to doing social right! Thanks for all you contribute!
There are certain people in every niche whose body of work reaches a level that makes it hard for new followers to get a good picture of their accomplishments and contributions to the community.
By the time someone gets where Chris Brogan is, they have multiple sites, products, services, and/or are regular contributors on other key sites. And don’t forget about the network of followers that builds around people like Chris as well.
This is an attempt to give you Chris Brogan in-a-box so you can dive into his world and catch up with a great thought leader and sharer of tech and marketing who is worth following.
Who Is Chris Brogan?
Chris Brogan (right) and Bryan Rhoads
Bio
Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies. (more…)
What Chris Has Done
If you’re wondering why you’re bothering to read anything Chris writes, here are a few bullet points of things that he’s done in his past that might be relevant:
Made the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists for Trust Agents
Wrote for Entrepreneur magazine (print), SUCCESS magazine (online), and American Express OPEN Forum (online)
Built data centers, released software, acquired companies, and all kinds of other fun projects while working for a wireless telecommunications company.
Tying Off Or Facing the Waves – Chris Brogan: When times are rough, in business and in life, many of us seek stability. We want to anchor ourselves to something. We want to tie our boat up to try and outlast the storm. But that very choice can often cause far more damage than the less intuitive decision: facing the waves.
If I Started Today: Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll build three different scenarios out, and give you the starting points for what I’d do with social media if I were in these steps.
My Best Advice About Personal Branding: In some ways, personal branding is noise. It’s talking about one’s self instead of talking about something that’s useful to others. But another way you might look at it is that personal branding is leverage: once you know me, you start to build a relationship with me.
Check out Chris’ own “Best of” posts from his blog to go deeper.
Deb Orton interviews Chris Brogan of New Marketing Labs. Chris discusses the big opportunities for marketers, mistakes that marketers make with social media…
Best selling co-author of Trust Agents and notable blogger, Chris Brogan, takes the stage at the Coldwell Banker Generation Blue Experience to talk about the importance of trust in the social age of consumers.
Takeaways
What you will learn a lot about by following Chris Brogan is relationship building, personal branding, and using social media effectively. You’ll learn these things both through the things Chris shares, but also in how he shares and how he builds community around his own brand.
