by Roxanne Darling on January 4, 2010
About a year ago I founded the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club. It is part of a international nonprofit organization of social media practitioners and exists to develop and share best practices and ethics on the social web. One of the first goals we had was to get the word out in the [...]
by Roxanne Darling on October 7, 2009
The social web has made it so easy for people to connect with each other and have a voice at the table like never before. Last night at a tweetup here in Honolulu, I met Larry Heim, CEO of HonBlue. This was a Tweetup Treat, as Larry and I do not normally travel in the [...]
by Roxanne Darling on September 15, 2009
I am giving the keynote address and several workshops today at the Aloha Chapter of Meeting Planners International. I am joined by my friend and colleague, Tess Staadecker, with whom I work closely at the Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter. I must say I loved Philip Richardson’s introduction of me! The picture tells the story [...]
by Roxanne Darling on August 13, 2009
Here is a brief late night interview with Public Affairs Officer Jason Salata (who manages the @USS_Nimitz twitter account) talking about how the U.S. Navy has jumped into social media in the past several months. Shane and I filmed this while on board the USS Nimitz, over “Mid Rats” aka midnight rations. The scrambled egg [...]
by Roxanne Darling on July 8, 2009
This Friday, our local chapter of the Social Media Club (founded by yours truly) is having a panel discussion on Ethics in Social Media. It’s a hot topic all around, as social media lends itself to some highly unethical practices and characters! The good news though, is that the conversational nature of the social web [...]
by Roxanne Darling on June 26, 2009
We have the antidote to yesterday’s post on how to learn what you don’t know!
We are launching a new business that is all about training. We’ve helped out clients be incredibly successful on the web over the past 14 years, and we want to share this knowledge with others. We also want to do it [...]
by Roxanne Darling on June 25, 2009
The social web is full of free information. Many people forego formal training in favor of copying what they see others’ doing. We sometimes do this ourselves—once you have a strong base of knowledge in a specific area, it is quite reasonable to look at others’ tips or code and be able to reverse engineer [...]