Extra Boost of “V”: More Vloggers for your YouTube Cravings

September 30th, 2010 | Herwin Icasiano | 2 Comments

I didn’t receive any YouTube vlogger recommendations from you all, but that probably means you want to hear more about vloggers that I like!

Image: Jixar‘s Flickrstream, CC 2.0

So here are six more YouTubers that I follow now and again:

Natalie (communitychannel)

Who?

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How Pepco Can Power Up Its Communications

September 29th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 18 Comments

Yesterday

I brought you up to speed on my conversations with Pepco and, more specifically, with Andre Francis, who manages the organization’s social media efforts.

Image: Féron Benjamin via Flickr, Creative Commons

As I continued thinking about it and how organizations approach social media in general, a couple of things became clear to me.

First, when companies – especially large ones – take the plunge into social media – they deserve our support, especially those of us who work in the field.

Who knows what internal battles have been fought in order for them to set up that Twitter account, or that Facebook page?

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

September 28th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 3 Comments

I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently.

Granted, we’ve had some pretty crazy weather… and that tends to send the power diving down the tubes.

That, I understand.

But what really started getting on my nerves was how seemingly useless their communications were.

I ranted a fair amount about this, so I won’t repeat myself here.

To pick up where I left off

I was all set to do a humdinger of a post about how terrible Pepco was, particularly in its use of social media.

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