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A client of mine recently copied me on a note to a marketing person she works with. It  highlighted a piece she apparently liked about social media written by a professional speaker. The gist of this piece was exposing the “good, the bad and the ugly” of social media. The good was limited to one [...]

Capitalist Pig Virus?

Posted May 2nd, 2009 by Caron. Comment (1).

I’ve got more information from my friend Paula McDonald about the background of the start of this virus. She lives in Puerto Escondido, a coastal fishing village in southern Mexico. San Diegans know her as a longtime writer and photographer who covered Baja from Rosarito. Smithfield is the largest hog producer in the world with [...]

My good friend, writer and photographer Paula McDonald, has lived in Mexico for decades, first in Rosarito and now in Puerto Escondido, a small coastal fishing village in southern Mexico. She sent me a note today about what’s happening in Mexico and I thought it was worth sharing: A bit of truth from the local scene [...]

Where are Home Builders in Social Media?

Posted April 24th, 2009 by Caron. Comment (1).

One of my favorite annual projects is putting together the presentation write ups and other collateral materials for PCBC’s spring conference in San Francisco. This year, one of the presentations is by my friend Jon Bailey of Bailey-Gardiner and social media strategy consultant Jason Baer. They’re presenting a panel on social media for home builders [...]