Quoted: Jimmy Dean once said "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." One of the ways in which I am adjusting my own sails is by changing the website that I blog on. So, with immediate effect I will continue blogging from www.ginocosme.com. Please update your blogrolls and bookmarks accordingly.

Quoted: As I leave for Thailand tomorrow for a combination of some TLC and creative thinking, I'd like to leave you with one section of my updated free social media primer, which has been downloading quite steadily since I announced it on Tuesday. If you haven't done so yet, please download your free copy. It's published under the Creative Commons license

Quoted: "Hi! I totally agree with your post. Here is a link to a not-really-related post on my own site that I'm shamelessly trying to promote by posting this comment. In fact, the only purpose of this comment is to create a reason for me to link to my post. I don't realize that I'm embarrassing myself with this cheap tactic. What's I really seem clueless

Quoted: As Eve and I finish off our first social media book for our UK publisher, we're preparing ourselves for another ambitious project. The project includes publishing a blog-like book to help South African businesses, large and small, understand the social media landscape and use it to achieve business goals in an innovative and creative manner. Although

Quoted: You may have noticed that this blog has changed its theme thanks to a pretty nifty free template and some design tweaking by a mate of mine. After what I believe was a teething process, my new blog is live. With this new look comes an update to my free social media ebook. Finally! How I managed to update it amongst everything else is a miracle. To download

Quoted: If social media is a communication channel focused on people and aims to deliver success-based outcomes that result from meaningful participation, why then are some companies recruiting or delegating social media into their technical divisions? I have a suggestion that might bare the answer. During a period of what some would call “social media fatigue”,

Quoted: Ad Age has an interesting article on the value of a corporate blog. More specifically, the article examines whether there is any value in having a chief blogger. "Today, just more than 11% of Fortune 500 companies have corporate blogs...and only a handful have a designated chief blogger." This is why companies such as Coca-Cola and Kodak have recently

Quoted: I’m a realist. I know from inside experience that no matter how great and exciting a new marketing and communications channel is, there will always be challenges that businesses will face when they consider using new thinking as part of their business strategies. For the sake of this blog post, I have identified three corporate challenges that I think

Quoted: Here's the truth. In one way or other we're all creating and managing our own brands, either personal or business (generally both). Whether it be the way we present ourselves at meetings and on social media channels, the content we write on our blogs or for magazines, the names we create and market to identify our service or product offerings, or the