5 Tips for Using More Video in Your Organization

November 7, 2010 2:16 am
YouTube for business, social learning, social media for business, Gina SchreckOur society has an insatiable apetite for video.  It has grown steadily over the past 5 and a half years since the birth of YouTube.  According to statistics compiled by Website Monitoring YouTube now exceeds 2 BILLION views per day and that people watch an average of 15 minutes of video per day.  I might be… View Article

QR Codes out of Legos…Let YOUR Imagination BUILD SOMETHING

October 13, 2010 6:11 pm
QR codes, Gina Schreck, Technology speaker, social media business, Getting GeekyThanks to Paul Simbeck-Hampson for sharing this fun video and to Phyllis Khare for passing it along.  Social Learning at its BEST! See how technology and toys can lead to fun customer engagement and higher sales.  What will you embed in your codes? QR Codes are like physical world hyperlinks!  You can add them to… View Article

SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE: Making time for social media

October 2, 2010 10:46 am
Time for social media, social media for business, making time for social media, social media trainingYesterday someone sent me a question that really got me thinking.  It doesn’t take much to send my brain off on a 2-hour tangent, but this was a question we all struggle with.  Her comment and question was this: “I am marginally involved in social media, but, like most of us these days, I’m so busy… View Article

The Controversy Around the Digital Divide

August 4, 2010 11:44 am
Technology Speaker, Social Media Expert, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants I grew up with 3 TV channels (not including the mysterious UHF channels which never had anything of value to a kid), I was the remote control.  I played records not MP3 files, on my Fisher Price record player.  The only phone we had was one with a very long cord that could be pulled… View Article

List of Twitter-Chat Events

January 23, 2010 1:21 pm
I am always asked for a list of places or events to get involved with like-minded people on Twitter.  A live meet up coordinated through Twitter is called a “Tweet Up,” but a virtual meeting of people on Twitter is called a Twitter-Chat.  I keep a running list as I come across tags, but there… View Article