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About Jonathan Coffman

January 4, 2009

From Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Myspace and beyond – social media is here to stay. You need a guide through the landscape who has developed proven strategies and tools to enhance communication and conversation.
With a background in journalism and product development Jonathan can help you build transparency, trustworthiness, and most of all, conversation with your clients [...]

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My Email Process

December 1, 2008

I find it fascinating to learn about how others use technology in their lives so today, I present: how retrieve and process email.

First off, I’m not a GTD person, that sounds all fine and dandy but really doesn’t work so well for me. I DO try to stay organized but let’s be honest, I work [...]

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How I Use Twitter

November 21, 2008

I spend a lot of time each day with Twitter, both as a user and as a trainer of the tool to others. What’s amazing is that it’s a tool that’s not easy to explain, and yet when people get it, they GET it.
Before we move forward, take a look at some of my posts [...]

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Top 3 Twitter Tips

November 18, 2008

Top 3 Twitter Tips
Whenever I tell someone that I work in social media (and explain to them that social media is things like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, etc) they almost always come back and ask me what Twitter is and why someone would use it.
I’ll save that post for another day (although I’ve written about [...]

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Top 4 tips from Twitter Users to News Organizations

November 13, 2008

A long while back I asked my Twitter following to tell me what advice they would give to a news organization (or any company really) thinking about getting started on this platform. Here’s what they had to say:

@ddmcd – “Don’t Twitter anonymously — identify real people with specific addresses.”
@shawnr – “Tell them to NOT add [...]

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Why Doesn’t Facebook Embrace Social Media?

October 14, 2008

Facebook is the 900 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to consumer’s ideas about “social media” and “social networking”, So why doesn’t Facebook embrace that fact and have a conversation with their own community?
Sure, they’re want to be a public company, they’ve got thousands of employees, millions of dollars worth of bills, and [...]

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99% Of Incoming Students Connect on Facebook Prior to Class

October 13, 2008

Yesterday I ran across a fascinating article saying that 99% of Amherst College freshman had already connected on Facebook via an “Amherst College Class of 2012” Group. Out of the 438 registered freshman, 432 had joined that specific FB Group the week before classes even started.
Lately I’ve been hearing more and more about how Facebook’s [...]

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Lip shaped pita bread

September 28, 2008

Ok, so this isn’t my typical post, but something amazing happened tonight when I was eating mini pita for dinner.
A pita shaped like lips! It’s the craziest thing. Unfortunately it wasn’t a Jesus shaped pita, otherwise I’d be posting this to eBay instead of my blog. The picture follows.

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Hurricane Ike Media Review: KHOU.com

September 15, 2008

Among the Houston based local media scene, KHOU is a solid contender and very popular station. Like the other local network affiliates they had “wall to wall” coverage on-air and online. Their broadcast transmission was also being streamed live online.
I do want to preface each of these reviews with the web technology or content management [...]

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