Comments on: It’s True…

By: John Cass

John Cass — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:54:51 +0000

Congratulations on the move Todd, I look forward to the work you will do at SocialSphere!

By: Cathryn Hrudicka

Cathryn Hrudicka — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:05:37 +0000

Congratulations and my best to you, Todd, in what sounds like a really exciting and growth-filled move. I’ll be very interested to follow what you’re working on, and I also really appreciate your work on behalf of Social Media Club. Hope to see you again soon, either in SF or Boston. Cheers!

By: More Than Marketing - Building Your Personal Brand

More Than Marketing - Building Your Personal Brand — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:43:10 +0000

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By: Todd Van Hoosear

Todd Van Hoosear — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:24:36 +0000

Thanks, Warren! Very much appreciate it!

What’s new, Adam?

By: Adam Zand ex-Topazer

Adam Zand ex-Topazer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:45:12 +0000

Congrats to the man who taught me blogging could be cool – oh wait, that was Mike Spataro.

“You say folksonomy, I say taxonomy,” but we’ll always have Borderline.

Miss ya – Love ya.

By: Warren Sukernek

Warren Sukernek — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:54:39 +0000

Congrats on the new blog and gig! Love the blog- great insights! I’m a new subscriber. Best of luck.

@warrenss

By: More Than Marketing - The social media war room

More Than Marketing - The social media war room — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:30:11 +0000

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By: Todd Van Hoosear

Todd Van Hoosear — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:24:04 +0000

Chris, I agree it’s an interesting topic. My approach has always been start small but think big. That means you need adoption, or at least buy-in, at all levels. But top-down really does help I think–nobody wants their boss to be more tech savvy than them…

By: chrisheuer

chrisheuer — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:17:32 +0000

wow – congratulations Todd – this is excellent news

the perspective you have outlined above is one I share with you deeply – we must bring the top and the bottom together without the people in the middle blocking progress for the sake of sustaining their positions of power inside the larger corporations – without support from the top, this is very very difficult unless you are very very far from the corporate HQ with a large degree of autonomy – this is perhaps a deeper conversation to have beyond this simple comment, as I know and respect a great deal of middle managers, but all too often lately I have seen too many trying to slow or stop progress instead of encouraging it out of fear for not understanding what is happening

perhaps this is a topic for a social media club discussion? From the top, the bottom or the middle: how to best accelerate social media adoption.

By: Todd Van Hoosear

Todd Van Hoosear — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:43:21 +0000

Thanks, everyone! Day one is going really well. Just had an amazing meeting with the author of several books on the Marine Corps (and the father of a former Marine), who came in to help us understand the Marine mentality (they’re one of our clients).

I’ll write more about it in a separate post. Very exciting stuff!