My Summer at SAS: Week 9

I first wrote this post for the SAS blog Conversations and Connections. SAS has been awesome enough to let me repost it here. Editor’s [David B. Thomas] Note: They grow up so fast. Week of August 9, 2010 (Monday, 8/9) Day 40: Had a brainstorming/catch up session with Kristine Vick today to make the SAS

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A New Professional’s Twitter Presence

I read a post by Chris Brogan this morning: “My Twitter Presence”. The post lays out his strategy in sections and bulleted lists. At the end he mentions his interest in seeing posts written by readers on their Twitter methodology, encouraging them to leave links in the comments. I thought I’d take him up on

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Emergency Response through Social Media

Last week I wrote a post about how Twitter helped save an injured triathlete who had taken a wrong turn, and crashed her bike during a race. Well it turns out that the demand for this kind of monitoring is pretty high. Apparently, “74% of Social Media Users Expect Cries for Help to be Answered

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