Category Archives: social media

100 Things You Should Know About People: #43 — People Expect Online Interactions to Follow Social Rules

When people interact with each other they follow rules and guidelines for social interaction. Here’s an example: Let’s say I go to a café and I see you sitting by the window. We know each other, and so I come up to you and say, “Hi Richard, how are you doing today?” I expect you…

Experimenting With Motivation At Blogs

I’ve been blogging for 1.5 years, although I didn’t really get rolling till about 6 months ago. This was about the time I found Yaro Starak’s wonderful Blog Mastermind training (there’s a link (affiliate) to Yaro and the course in the right sidebar). Bloggers are an experimental and very social group – One of the…

Quick Review of Dan Zarrella’s Social Media Marketing Book

I just finished reading Dan Zarrella’s book and it’s good. Small but with lots of info. Here’s a quick video review and then a text summary follows afterwards:

100 Things You Should Know About People: #15 — If You Use Social Media Without Laughter You Aren’t Being Social

If you engage in social media are you being social? You email, you text, you twitter, you leave voicemails for people, so you are plugged in, right? Well, actually not. In all of these means of communication you are not actually physically interacting with another person. True social bonding requires a physical reaction to the…