Topic: Brian Solis

Infographic of the Day: The 28 Flavors of Online Conversation in 2010

The Conversation Prism, an exhaustive encyclopedia of all the various sites offering online dialogue, has just been released in an updated version for 2010. Media guru Brian Solis and creative agency JESS3 produced the first ...READ»

The Great Brand Dilution

For decades brands basked in the glory of control, control over consumers' perceptions, impressions, and ultimately, decisions and ensuing experiences. Brands have now lost control of defining impressions, losing the ability to govern shared experiences.READ»

The Socialization of Business: Your Dirty Little Secrets Are No Longer Secrets

If a conversation takes place online and you're not there to hear it, did it really happen? Conversations do not fall into a black hole never to be heard again. And, there is no event horizon preventing their escape.READ»

Brian Solis Envisions the New PR

I'm just finishing Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridges' Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR. You will want to read this book. It collated many thoughts I've ...READ»

Dell Adamo, Rival to MacBook Air, Pictured in the Wild

Brian Solis has posted several top-notch photos of the Dell Adamo. Still no technical specs available on Dell's MacBook Air competitor, but it sure does look pretty.READ»

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The Social Network: Ecosystem vs. Egosystem

For better or worse, Twitter introduces the notion of notion of popularity, whereby the numbers of followers and also the friend to follower ratio we possess indicate ones stature within Twitterverse.READ»

Share Nicely: Add Shortened URLs to News and PR

If you want your news article, blog post or press release to get viral why not make it easier on the reader by including a "pre-shortened" url?READ»

Share Nicely: Add Shortened URLs to News and PR

If you want your news article, blog post or press release to get viral why not make it easier on the reader by including a "pre-shortened" url?READ»

Inception, Extraction, and the Socialization of Business

Every now and then, I draw comparisons between the things that inspire me offline in order to help spark creativity and evolution in all that I do online. Inception served as a catalyst for rethinking social media and how we use it to socialize not just our marketing efforts, but our business overall.READ»

21 Twitter Tips From Socially Savvy Companies

Adapted from his book "Engage," Brian Solis presents his list of suggestions to help businesses learn how to engage customers on Twitter through the examples of those companies, from Dell to Zappos, already successfully building online communities.READ»

The Rise of Social Commerce

Brands are flocking to social networks, some with strategies and others simply experimenting with community building. What's clear is that the 3F's (friends, fans, and followers) are not created equal. READ»

Twitter Promoted to Ad Network

In just four short years, Twitter would emerge as something more personal than a social network, it would serve as a human seismograph for facilitating, tracking, and measuring human movement and experiences. Twitter is now starting to introduce new programs that officially position the company as both an integrated information and ad network.READ»

Twitter: A Human Seismograph Measuring the World

Twitter is quickly becoming the lens into all that moves us as individuals and also as a global society. Twitter users reveal the state of all things captivating attention and inspiring action, all in real-time. A study recently captured and articulated that State of Twitter in the United States.READ»

Facebook Groups Give Rise to Social Nicheworking

Facebook announced a new platform for Facebook Groups recently. Rather than jump into the fray to share my immediate reactions, I opted to instead allow the news and its promise settle. Like many, my initial reaction was that of ...READ»

PR, Media and the Space Between

The space between media and public relations is filled with gray, but we're learning very quickly that the more things change, the smaller that space becomes. Already, each of us has experienced profound change in our industry. I say ...READ»

PR, Media and the Space Between

The space between media and public relations is filled with gray, but we're learning very quickly that the more things change, the smaller that space becomes. Already, each of us has experienced profound change in our industry. I say ...READ»

Report: Facebook and the New Age of Privacy

It's said that opposites attract. However, in social media, it's quite the opposite. The idea of privacy and publicity are in fact at odds with one another. And at the heart of the matter, one social network is caught in the crossfire of sharing information and TMI (too much information).READ»

If News Embargoes are Dead, What about Press Releases?

There have been separate discussions about whether the news embargo is dead. Jeremy Wagstaff, a former Technology Columnist at The Asian Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal Online, and Stephen Baker, a senior writer at ...READ»

SoCal Tech – The Undiscovered Country

When Mike Macadaan, a Silicon Valley based designer at AOL, decided to throw a tech exhibition, you’d think he would have done it locally. Instead, Macadaan did the unthinkable. He went to Los Angeles. Surely this would mean ...READ»

4score and . . . how would Lincoln do on Twitter?

I received a call today from a friend who asked for assistance in brainstorming a two-and-a-half hour presentation on a topic she was very familiar with. She doubted that she could keep the attendees' attention for that long, though ...READ»

Social Media Club Announces Interim Board

The Social Media Club announced today its newly formed interim Board of Directors. The board boasts a roster of highly-regarded industry leaders; a truly amazing group of people that I am honored to be a part of. As ...READ»

Is SMO (Social Media Optimization) The New SEO?

Brian Solis, widely recognized as a thought leader on new media, argues that "we are media" and discusses the importance of social media optimization for businesses and organizations.READ»

Register for TWTRCON 09: 20% Discount, Year Subscription to Fast Company

TWTRCON SF 09--Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, May 31, 2009--is the first conference entirely focused on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate ...READ»

Influence Battle Royale: Lady Gaga vs. Bono

Who is more influential? More popular? Is there even a difference? These are the questions that social media monitoring firm Vocus aims to answer in a new white paper, which tries to define the qualities of an influencer. READ»

Twitter that Pitch: Introducing Pitch140

With a rapidly growing number of media members using Twitter it's high time we PR pros put the reigns on run-on emails with attached pdf and word format press releases. Buckle down and dial-in the details for the most concise pitch ...READ»