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What Flying Can Teach You About Social Media

by · May 30, 2008

Wright Model A Flyer flown by Wilbur 1908-09 and launching derrick, France, 1909

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Orville and Wilbur Wright were nuts. I’m talking crazy, cuckoo, bats in the belfry nuts. They took some bed sheets and 2X4′s and somehow thought, “We can actually project ourselves through the air with those and live to tell about it.”

They were nuts. But they were right.

I took off from O’Hare last night and realized that companies who have tread the untested waters of social media to this point were also nuts. “Turn our brand over to the consumer! Let random members of the public make comments on our website! Let front-line employees, not CEOs or communications VPs respond to customer complaints or issues!”

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Blogging Tips From An A-Lister

by · February 19, 2008

Rob May built BusinessPundit.com from scratch to one of the top 3,000 blogs on the planet at one point according to Technorati. A co-founder of the Carnival of the Capitalists and one of the first business bloggers in the blogosphere, Rob started blogging in 2003 when Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com ignored his business submissions. Suffice to say, he has some wisdom when it comes to blogging. As his final days at BusinessPundit.com approach (he’s sold the blog), Rob sat down with Social Media Explorer to give aspiring bloggers out there some pointers on hitting the A-List.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lvk5R390Q[/youtube]

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