LikeMind Milwaukee is meeting this Friday, not once but twice! We’re featuring a 7 A.M. meet up with Erin Ulicki of OnMilwaukee.com and a 1:30 P.M meet up Joe Sorge of AJ Bombers andJoe Woefle of Blatz Liquor. Check out the video below for a quick overview of LikeMind and a touch of what our guests are sharing. Hope to see you there.
If you can’t make it, follow the conversation on Twitter with #MKELikemind
Turns out I’m not a writer. Not by trade nor by nature. So video really didn’t kill the writing star because I wasn’t a star to begin with. I’m explaining my new approach in the video below.
Social media and digital communications are a way of life for me. I do it for fun and I’m fortunate enough to do it for a living as well. I’ve decided that video is the best way for me to sharing my digital experiences, learnings and insights. I’m looking forward to starting a conversation.
Tags: digital communications, experience, jamey shiels, Social Media

LikeMind Milwaukee
LikeMind Milwaukee converged this morning at Rochambo Coffee House on Brady Street for great conversation on social media and building your personal brand. Phil Gerbyshak shared his experience in developing his personal brand and the tools he uses to maintain his brand both online and offline. He shared a key bit of information with all of us: “it’s not about the tools, it’s how they help build relationships.” Phil shared insights into setting up his blog as the hub of his online personality and how he uses different outposts like Twitter, FourSquare and Facebook to interact and facilitate relationship building.
Check out twitter and search #MKELikemind to catch a glimpse of the conversation.
Join us on Friday, November 20 from 7 – 9 a.m. at Rochambo as we continue to bring the online discussion into the offline, face-to-face environment. We’d love to have you. More info on the guest speaker soon!
Tags: conversations, Likemind, relationship building, Social Media

I’ve joined the international movement known as Likemind. Jeff Larche of Digital Solid has invited me to co-host the Milwaukee group and I’m excited for what’s to come. We’ll be gathering on the third Friday of every month at Rochambo Coffee and Tea House on Brady Street in Milwaukee. The get togethers will feature great coffee, excellent conversations and a handful of presentations from thought leaders across Milwaukee.
Likemind was started by Piers and Noah with the simple goal of bringing people together over coffee to have a conversation. Likemind is now a global movement that has finally made its way to Milwaukee. We’d love to have you join us. For additional details, drop me a line.
I’m experimenting with the wordpress iPhone app. I’m curios to see if it’s better to post using the app or if the relationship with posterous is the way to go when posting content from the iPhone.
I’m amazed to see the evolution and growing importance of mobile devices and access to information. I was thinking about this at work today and how we have an opportunity to tap mobile devices for access to health info. Working in health care I have yet to access info from my phone but we did create a mobile version of our site that allows you to find a doc, location and health info. I’ll share the results as we track the usage.
If I can post to my blog from my phone, why not be able to research a condition if I’m sick, find a doc and schedule an appointment. Another item to add to my to do list!
Tags: digital, experiment, Social Media
I’ve spent the last two months working on my transition from Typepad to Wordpress. The process has been part of my hiatus from blogging as I regroup and redefine the purpose of my personal blog. I’ve also updated the feed to point from typepad to the new site so we’ll see if this works.
Tags: blogging, Social Media, wordpress
I’m continuing to get familiar with posterous. I’m sending this note from email via my iPhone. I’m attaching a picture to see how it gets inserted into the post. Sent from my iPhone
Sent from my iPhone
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I’ve been working on transferring my blog to wordpress and am wondering now if posterous will make that point moot. If I can interface with all my social networking/media sites via email and web access then I’m wondering how long my blog will live on. It’s been struggling of late anyway. I’m looking at the conversation that Steve Rubel is making for the switch from blogging to posterous. Very interesting.
Any thoughts? Can this technology make it easier to interact?
Experimenting with ping.fm to post content to all my networks
As the number of social networks grows, it's easy to be overwhelmed
by the effort to maintain each one independently. Each network may
serve a purpose to your personal or professional life but it is easy to
lose track of the networks you've joined, are managing or are
interested in.
For individuals, there is a great How To from Ben Parr at Mashable
that provides a good approach to identifying and managing your
networks. There is also a desktop solution that I will be
experimenting with called Sobees. Sobees claims to "offer an easy unified user experience to get, organize and share information from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Digg, Flickr and YouTube directly on the desktop". Sobee sounds similar to Collactive which is a company that offers a robust social media management platform for the corporation.
Finally, for those who support Corporte social media programs, I would recommend reviewing the Forrester Wave Report on Listening Platforms as well as the agencies they recommend.
How do you manage yoru social media profiles?
