I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
Starting today, and for the next five days, my new book World Wide Rave: Creating triggers that get millions of people to spread your ideas and share your stories will be free on Amazon Kindle. If you have a Kindle, please download it and tell your friends.
One of the currencies of social media is that when you participate, people find out who you are.
I had a conversation with my friend David Henderson about big PR agencies and how companies should vet those they are considering working with.
Late last year, my good friends Chris Brogan, Paul Gillin, and I organized and delivered the New Marketing Summit in Boston. It was a great two-day event where several hundred marketers and entrepreneurs got together to share ideas on the future of marketing.
In my new video, more than a year in the making, over 100 people from all seven continents contribute to show how people spread ideas and tell stories.
World Wide Rave (the book) is now at the printer and is scheduled to start shipping in late February.
Erin Weed, founder of Girls Fight Back!, uses her Web site, MySpace and Facebook groups, blog, and YouTube videos as a way to promote women's safety and self-defense issues.
Many people ask: "Is social media global?"