A few weeks ago was the anniversary of my seventh year tweeting. You can bet that is a sentence I never thought I’d write. I'm seeing how this thing works. — Jeff Turner 📷 (@jeffturner) March 11, 2007 I'm going to bed. Still not sure I "get" this. — Jeff Turner 📷 (@jeffturner) March 20, 2007 […]
The Shortest Distance To Trust Is Not Through Technology
We love our technologies. And why shouldn’t we? Technology has transformed daily life and made much of what we do today vastly more efficient than we could possibly have imagined. Our mobile technologies have become extensions of our brains, always at hand to assist us in accessing information and providing feedback on the world around […]
People Don’t Want To Be Customers On Social Media
We’re now seven or eight years into this “social media” thing, and the conversations around it are still the same. I bit on a tweet this morning from Laura Monroe, even though I tend to follow a simple rule popularized by Gahlord Dewald – “I stopped reading anything with a question in the headline.” In general, this […]
Listening As Strategy – The Speech
Brian Copeland: So this guy plays in real estate because he loves us, and he’s going to show you his heart today in his session, and I want you to give a very warm welcome to one of my favorite speakers in America, Mr. Jeff Turner. Jeff Turner: So what do you do after that? […]
Why I Am Smiling Tonight
I didn’t go looking for Respres.com. It found me. A random link to the “about” page of Respres.com showed up in my Feedly stream as part of a search result designed to find instances when photos from my Flickr account are used outside of Flickr. I navigated to the page and found that Respres.com was, […]
Why Social Media Is Here To Stay – Revisited
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I gave this presentation at New Media Atlanta on September 25, 2009, almost three years ago. I was at least 35 lbs heavier, so I’d love to edit that, but without a great deal of additional change, I would happily give this presentation again today. […]