It was Saturday afternoon. I was looking for a restaurant to go to with my wife for the evening. We reviewed our mental short-list of places we’d driven past and said, “oh, we should eat there.” And now we were in decision-making mode. So we checked online to see when the restaurant was open ’til […]
Tag Archives: social media
5 problems of social media
A friend of mine asked me recently why I’m on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. For me it’s simple: I’m an extrovert in an introvert’s job. I work at home and I need that social interaction so that I don’t go crazy. I love social media. It connects people and it levels the playing […]
How social media can save television
When I was a kid, my family set aside Thursday nights as our “family TV night”. Dad would bring home a bag of chips and a bottle of pop. He’d turn on the TV a couple of minutes before the show started and the four of us would sit there on the couch and watch […]
10 topics that a financial advisor can tweet about
Financial advisors have a unique challenge on social media, and on Twitter specifically. While other entrepreneurs can tweet just about anything they want (with impunity!), financial advisors are highly regulated and therefore need to watch very closely what they tweet. There aren’t enough characters in a tweet to include a full disclaimer, plus every advisor […]
Here’s why Facebook’s biggest threat to its existence is its own users
A few years ago, a couple of friends had to convince me to join Facebook. There were three people in particular that worked hard at convincing me. Although I like to embrace new and useful sites, I was reluctant at the time because I didn’t see a lot of my own peers on there. Facebook […]