Exploring social business strategy

TechCrunch had an interesting article yesterday on Topix. The central message was that it had quietly become the “local watering hole” for small towns, as evidenced by the total comments on the site (now in the 100 M range).  It then went on to make the claim that the reason people like myself haven’t been [...]

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The proper metrics for social media have always been difficult to pin down, but I think there’s been an interesting cycle that’s emerged over the last few years. Before twitter exploded in popularity, comment counts on blogs were often used as a crude measure of community engagement  – the number of people willing to take [...]

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A little while ago I wrote a two-part series called “Looking into the blogosphere through a sporting lens” (part 2 is here). The purpose of the series was to look at some questions underlying a Costas Now program, which itself was supposed to be an insightful look at the role of the blogosphere in relation [...]

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For the last couple of weeks the blogosphere has been abuzz about a little piece that was on Costas Now. On the program a professional athlete (Braylen Edwards), the creator of a Deadspin (Will Leitch, representing the blogosphere), well-respected TV sports commentator (and host) Bob Costas, and Pulitzer Prize winning writer (and creator of Friday [...]

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