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How to Write for Instagram

The circular creative process is pictured, with arrows from "excited" to "big brainstorm, realization/regret, pity party, fine, big think, do it" and back to excited

A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it. * * * Last week, my girl Kerry Gorgone and I gave a talk at the Social Pulse Summit titled Blending the Personal and Professional on […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote Tagged With: creative process, how to do instagram well, how to write for instagram, Instagram, keynote speaker, Social Media

TikTok with the Best Writing Advice (No Really)

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A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it. * * * I sense I’m being watched. Followed. Stalked, almost. He’s quiet as a ninja. And like a ninja, he seems everywhere at once. Often […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, best writing advice, Writing Tagged With: show don't tell, Social Media, TikTok, writing advice

How Do You Balance Your Personal and Professional Social Media Presence?

  I started on Twitter in 2007 as @MarketingProfs, sharing headlines from the site and representing the brand there. Then 5 years later I resuscitated @AnnHandley on Twitter as a personal ID—a handle I’d been squatting on for years but never used. Why the second account? I guess the easiest answer is that it seemed… […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote, Business, Media, Social Media Tagged With: personal versus professional, Social Media, social media for business, social media tools, twitter

The First Tweets of 16 B2B Brands (and a Few Familiar Faces)

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What was your first tweet? As Twitter began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, I couldn’t help but consider how far this small, simple, fledgling network has come. Once mocked for being stupid and insipid, and plagued by its own persistent identity crisis, Twitter has nonetheless become a prominent and important part […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Business, Content, Media, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: Social Media, Technology

A Journey to ’25 Random Things’

Facebook Random

Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Twizzlers. I’m tagged again by Tim (“I’m a […]

Filed Under: Business, Media, Pop Culture, Social Media, Technology Tagged With: '25 Things', connectivity, digital life, Facebook, meme, online intimacy, Social Media, social networks, Technology

I Can Haz Hoomin Hart-aik

i knowz dis place lyk teh back of my... ...wat's dis?

Maybe it’s because the holidays put me in a melancholy mood. Maybe because I’m again staring down the barrel of six bleak months of winter. Whatever the cause, I can’t help but read lolcats these days without glimpsing the heartache of the human condition. In a piece a few weeks ago in Salon, Jay Dixit […]

Filed Under: Humor, Pop Culture Tagged With: internet, lolcats, memes, Social Media

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