Monthly Archives: June 2008

Will Twitter Survive?

Written on June 27, 2008 by Bert DuMars in internet, social media, twitter, web, web 2.0
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I would like to open by saying I certainly hope so. I have found it a valuable tool for me to network with other social media and interactive marketing professionals. However, again today, its performance was extremely poor and it appeared to shutdown during the middle of the day — UGH!!! [...]

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Social Media in Plain English

Written on June 26, 2008 by Bert DuMars in interactive marketing, social media
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A very good explanation of social media. I like the CommonCraft approach to explaining complex concepts like social media in easy-to-understand, short videos. This one is very nice and more can be found on YouTube or at their website.

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Twitter, friendfeed and Digg

Written on June 26, 2008 by Bert DuMars in Digg, friendfeed, interactive marketing, internet, twitter
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I wish Twitter had higher performance and uptime. It is often sluggish and even Twhirl has to stopping accessing it for 5 minutes, or longer, at a time to allow it to catch up. I continue to find incredible people and publishers to follow including: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, [...]

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University of Georgia CONNECT Conference

Written on June 26, 2008 by Bert DuMars in Uncategorized
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I have been asked to speak at the University of Georgia CONNECT Public Relations and Social Media Conference September 20, 2008. I have Paull Young of Converseon to thank for connecting me with Karen Russell at the University of Georgia. As much as I enjoy speaking on interactive marketing and social media, I [...]

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Sam Decker – BazaarVoice – Customer Oxygen

Written on June 3, 2008 by Bert DuMars in Uncategorized
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This is a right-to-the-point discussion on the impact of customer reviews and ratings to the operations of a company. Once customer reviews and ratings are occuring the culture of the company will begin to change and eventually feed off of those insights down to the operational level.

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