Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

New post at Kil­gan­non Says: We’re in the midst of some rather trans­for­ma­tive times. Espe­cially if you hap­pen to live in the Mid­dle East.  Some are cred­it­ing Face­book and Twit­ter as key cat­a­lysts that helped to over­throw a 40-year dic­ta­tor­ship in Egypt. This phe­nom­e­non has spread through­out the Arab world from Yemen to Bahrain and is […]

One of the great things about social media is how it can con­nect you with thou­sands of peo­ple you would oth­er­wise never know. This makes it easy to  be exposed to new things, learn from them and become more informed and smarter about busi­ness every sin­gle day. Indeed, social media has helped to vastly improve […]

I haven’t watched much of Amer­i­can Idol. I’m really not a fan of the sign­ing but I am a fan of using social media to pre­dict pop­u­lar­ity con­tests. So lets give it a go. First lets look at sen­ti­ment. Seems my taste for indie rock (and not pop bal­lads) isn’t shared by every­one. Sen­ti­ment for these […]

Image via Wikipedia Note: A few weeks ago a pub­lished a review of desk­top Twit­ter apps. Desk­top Twit­ter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and cer­tainly wor­thy of your con­sid­er­a­tion. A col­league of mine was recently hav­ing prob­lems with her AIR app func­tion­ing prop­erly and switched to a […]

Image via Wikipedia I know peo­ple who are bright, ener­getic and engaged in per­son but don’t come off that way online. They have Face­book pro­files that are never updated and Twit­ter accounts they haven’t posted to in weeks. Or worse, a blog that has gone entirely dark for months. Sure it’s hard to keep up […]

Image via Crunch­Base If you’re still using Twit­ter from Twitter.com, I have to say you’re mak­ing it hard on your­self and you’re not get­ting all you can out of it. Desk­top apps are one way to make it eas­ier to track fol­low­ers, respond, orga­nize and mon­i­tor your pro­file or brand. I usu­ally make an effort to […]

Lewis Black via last.fm Some peo­ple love to rant. Even more peo­ple love to rant on a blog. Some blogs were even cre­ated for peo­ple to rant about pol­i­tics, the price of milk, or even their ex’s groom­ing habits. In the non-digital world, peo­ple find that kind of behav­ior repul­sive. They sim­ply don’t want to […]

Image via Crunch­Base A few months ago a client asked for a cheat sheet on how to uses social media tools. Here’s more or less what I gave them on Twit­ter. See some­thing impor­tant miss­ing, let me know and I’ll add it. Note: This list isn’t a sub­sti­tute for a strat­egy. Fol­low some good tweeters […]

Image via Wikipedia So you have already drunk the Twit­ter Koolaide. You’ve been tweet­ing awhile and now you have a few hun­dred fol­low­ers and are fol­low­ing more peo­ple than you can keep track of using Twitter.com on your browser. And you’re begin­ning to feel that you’re prob­a­bly not get­ting all that you could out of […]

Engage­ment is a term that has been used so much in the last cou­ple years by mar­keters it’s start­ing to loose it’s mean­ing. It’s become a short­hand for do some­thing “social.” But engage­ment at it’s best is an emo­tional involve­ment or com­mit­ment between two par­ties. Unfor­tu­nately, com­mit­ment is some­thing many mar­keters only expect of their […]