Today I will be a panelist for a free teleseminar about the Nuts and Blogbolts of social media tools; however, I think that the magic in a teleseminar is all in the people who call in. And that means you. I hope to talk with you tonight!

Nut's and BlogBolts - A Conversation on Social Media Tools

Monday, January 29th
5 PM PT / 6 PM MT / 7 PM CT / 8 PM EST

A two-hour roundtable discussion about the strategies and tools of social media with Jim Kukral from ReveNews, Shawn Collins from Affiliate Summit, Scott Baradell read more...

Okay, so some more viral video from YouTube and Gizmodo in the same genre of the Comcast guy sleeping on the job. But this time, it is a venerable AT&T; employee stealing oranges, in an official truck, with an official logo. I think it is time for service companies, telcomm and others that perform service in homes, to add these two videos to their read more...

impossible Originally uploaded by Orrin. So, how does a high-profile company, say Microsoft, get factual errors changed on Wikipedia? Well, the barriers are high, and getting more daunting every day. According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, in a CNN article today: Wales said read more...

Trent Stamp, who is the president of Charity Navigator, which rates American charities, runs an excellent blog called. It’s a good read for those involved with the non-profit world. However, I have to take issue with a piece that he wrote last week that blasted the Red Cross for hiring a communication professional to monitor blogs for the organization, calling it an “absurd use of donor money.” Stamp’s concern read more...

On the death of humor columnist Art Buchwald, The New York Times ushers in the video self-obituary – a mix between YouTube and journalism. Called, “The Last Word” the feature opens with Buchwald declaring, “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald, and I just died.” It ends with the well-known humorist, who once wrote for The New York Herald Tribune in Paris and later a syndicated columnist in read more...