by Marc A. Pitman | Apr 2, 2012 | Internet & Social Media, Question Marc?
I just received this question: When is there an appropriate time to ask someone on twitter to follow you? My quick answer is “never.” Asking people to follow you on Twitter makes you sound a bit whiny and desperate. Following is a personal thing. People...
by Marc A. Pitman | Mar 13, 2012 | 2. Engage, 4. Love (Stewardship), Internet & Social Media
Every week or so, I get a question like I did last night. It was basically, “How do you convince your boss to let me use social media?” So being a social media geek, I immediately posted the question on LinkedIn’s “Answers” tool. You can...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 29, 2011 | Internet & Social Media
Did you watch CNN this morning? It reported Paul Allen’s stats that Google+ growth is exceeding expectations. According to him, Google is now over 62 million users and adding about 625,000 new users every day. His prediction? Google+ will have over 400 million...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 27, 2011 | Internet & Social Media
Nonprofits, businesses, and geeks alike were thrilled when Google+ finally rolled out business pages back in November 2011. But one of the huge limitations of pages were the limit of only one admin per page. Any time a business or nonprofit wanted to post something,...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 14, 2011 | Internet & Social Media
It’s no secret that I love Google+. And it’s really no secret that Google loves it too. If you needed further evidence that Google+ is changing the way Google works, check out your Gmail account. (You’re not still using Hotmail or Yahoo, are you?)...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 13, 2011 | 2. Engage, 4. Love (Stewardship), Internet & Social Media
Here’s a 5 minute recording of CC Chapman talking with me about using video in nonprofit work. Filmed at BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles last month, you’ll see there’s a lot going around in the background…including voices from on high and a loud...