Top Eight Ways to Survive Conference Season

Conference season is upon us! It’s been a fun, relaxing summer, but welcome back to hell! With more conferences than ever before from which to choose (don’t these guys know we’re supposedly in a recession?) here are eight easy tips to help navigate the ones you do choose to attend.
1) Networking starts LONG before you [...]



Thank you, Cadbury, for creating this commercial

Today’s cheers goes to Cadbury, for creating a commercial entirely, 100%, completely about me.

I just gotta be me.



How to avoid being “Checked In” by your friends on Facebook’s Places

Hey gang – A brief video tutorial on how to manage your privacy settings on Facebook so no one else has the power to “check you in” to places on Facebook. Hope it’s useful. Feel free to share.

How to avoid being “Checked in” by your friends on Facebook’s Places from Peter Shankman on Vimeo.



Here’s why you’re interesting to me.

I think there comes a point when you reach a certain amount of followers that some people start asking you “Well, why do you only follow less than x% of those who follow you?”
I try and explain that if I followed everyone who followed me, I’d never read anyone’s posts, and it would achieve instant [...]



An Open Letter to Kami Watson Huyse, APR

I Tweeted this this morning.

I immediately got about 100 or so retweets saying “right on!” or “Hell yes!” or similar.
Now as you all know, I’m pretty much the most approachable person in like, the history of forever. Email me – I tell people every day. Got a quick question? Happy to answer it. I put [...]