Des Walsh
Des Walsh
Des Walsh is an executive leadership coach, social media strategist and LinkedIn expert. He is passionate about sharing his understanding of the benefits of social media in a way that makes good sense for business.
Building a Community Site with BuddyPress – Part 1
Having launched last week my twelve month free Social Media Roadmap Webinars 2011 program, not without a few technical hitches on the day but...
Social Media Tune Up: Twitter Part 4, Hashtags
In my update last week on the Social Media Tune Up series, I promised another in the sub-series on Twitter, to look at hashtags...
Social Media Tune Up 2011
Last year I started a project I thought would be fairly straightforward, a social media tune up. It proved to be a more challenging...
Thanks for the LinkedIn Invitation: Care to Speak First?
Would you connect with someone on LinkedIn who does not want to speak with you? If it weren't for my own experience over several years,...
Coaching for Developers, Interview Podcast with Steve Dalton
One of the most creative people I know, Steve Dalton (@spidie on Twitter), interviewed me recently for Coding by Numbers, a podcast site...
Outrageous Stunts, Great Ideas and Other Clues to Getting Attention
I'm grateful to blogger, professional speaker, web consultant and all-round entrepreneur Jim Kukral for sending me his new book Attention! or to give it...
Blogs Not Going Away: State of the Blogosphere 2010
Back in September this year, in a two part series of posts on Technorati’s latest State of the Blogosphere survey – see here and...
Social Media Tune-Up: Twitter Part 3
In my Social Media Tune Up series, this third one on Twitter goes into a bit more detail on my approach to the “follow/unfollow”...
Social Media Tune Up: Twitter Part 2
Yesterday, as part of this Social Media Tune Up series, I wrote about Twitter and shared some general thoughts about how Twitter fits into...
Social Media Tune up: Twitter Part 1
This post about Twitter is the first on a specific social media platform promised in my Social Media Tune Up post last month. Different Twitter...
New Look Twitter Borks Backgrounds, Adds Features, Challenges Branding
Picking up the other day on some tweetchat about the new look Twitter, I soon found myself watching the video “Twitter: discover what’s new...
Share Your Blogging Experience: Technorati Survey Continued
This is the second of two posts prompted by Technorati’s invitation to bloggers to participate in the State of the Blogosphere Survey 2010. In my...
Share Your Blogging Experience: Technorati Survey
Bloggers, whether full time or part time, experienced or starters, are being invited to participate in Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Survey 2010. Surveying bloggers...
Social Media Tune Up
After several years of active involvement with blogging, social networking and what we now call social media, I am very conscious of the need,...
Social Media in Bali, Indonesia
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Results of a search for social media related...
Teleseminar or Webinar for Online Social Media Program?
Having promised people for ages that I would provide a seminar series on social media strategy for business, I’ve finally put the content together...
Social Profile: What Does ZoomInfo Say About You?
ZoomInfo has probably collected information about you and others who share your name: is what’s there accurate? It was in the course of researching and...
Using LinkedIn and other Social Media for Job Search
However talented and experienced a Baby Boomer might be, however fit and ready for action, the fact is that her or his age provides...
Linchpin and the End of the R
When offered the chance to have a new book for my birthday recently, I wavered between a work of fiction and Seth Godin’s Linchpin:...
Listening, the Silent Discipline, and Social Media
For anyone explaining or advising on how best to operate in a social media enabled world, it is a commonplace now to emphasize the...