Talking Social Media and Business at Commerce Arkansas Nov. 3

About 900 folks came out to Commerce Arkansas last year, a business expo at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock put on by Arkansas Business and the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. This year, we’re doing it again on Nov. 3, and we’ve got a great lineup of speakers [...]

Pew Study Shows Emerging Trends in Political, Civic Engagement Online

On KARN radio on Monday, political bloggers Blake Rutherford and David Kinkade commented on how new media has finally arrived in Arkansas, and how blogs and social networks will play an even bigger role in the 2010 election cycle (one that’s already sure to be exciting given a certain U.S. Senate race) as more Arkansans [...]

Video: The Do’s and Don’ts Of Using Twitter in the Workplace

Today on “Today’s THV This Morning,” I sat down with Charles Crowson (who tweets @CCrowson016) to talk about what can happen when your Twitter life affects your work life. Or, rather, when you say something stupid on Twitter and your boss finds out.
Just as users are having to learn to watch what they post on [...]

Jim Karrh On Social Media and Making It Work For Your Business

Arkansas Business marketing columnist Jim Karrh this week takes a look at social media and how to make it work for you business. Social media has been the business topic du jour, but info about 1) deciding whether social media is right for your company and 2) how to choose what social media channels to [...]

Sour Grapes: TMZ and the Michael Jackson Scoop of the Decade

After Hollywood gossip Web site TMZ first broke news of Michael Jackson’s death last week (beating the LA Times by about an hour), there’s been lots of analysis and criticism and hand-wringing about what this says about new media versus the traditional mainstream press.
Min Online rounds up recent thought on the matter:
This weekend the L.A. [...]

Be Our Friend: Arkansas Business on Facebook

Arkansas Business is now on Facebook. So if you’d like to be a fan, search for “Arkansas Business” on Facebook or click or go directly to the Arkansas Business on Facebook page. We’ll be sharing news headlines and, soon, hosting discussions and seeking more interaction from readers.
You can also find us on Twitter, @ArkBusiness. And [...]

In Sunny Minneapolis at the AABP Summer Convention

Beginning Thursday, I’ll be in Minneapolis at the annual summer conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publications. The organization represents 70 publications that deliver customized regional business news to more than 1.2 million business pros in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Australia. Members include the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Crain’s family [...]

Weekend Course Gets Women ‘Hands On’ With Social Media

It’s an exciting week for social media in Little Rock. There’s tonight’s #LRTweetup, taking place beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Capital Hotel Bar & Grill.
And on Saturday, Kirtsy — a Digg-like social bookmarking site aimed at women — and Microsoft Office Live are sponsoring a free “Hands on Social Media” event, also at the [...]

MySpace Lays Off 30 Percent Amid Flat Membership

MySpace.com, snapped up by Rupert Murdoch a couple of years ago for half a billion dollars has seen growth flatten amid Facebook’s soaring popularity and Twitter’s recent takeoff. So what to do?
Pare down, get lean and get ready to fight. The ad-heavy site, said to be relatively lucrative while Facebook and Twitter continue to resist [...]

UPDATE: Ed Nicholson’s BlogWell Presentation

Update: Thanks to Phil Neiman at GasPedal for forwarding video of the presentation. More BlogWell vids here.

Original post:

Ed Nicholson of Tyson Foods, who blogged here last month about his experiences at the BlogWell conference in New York City, has his presentation at the conference posted at the BlogWell site. We’ve embedded it above.
The slideshow talks [...]