BofA afraid to talk. Again.

• Someone has posted a fake Ken Lewis account on Facebook and made the BofA chief a fan of Boone's Farm flavored wine. The BofA social media person won't get back to me. A colleague emailed "Yikes!" about the idea of me writing about their social media. Umm, it's about dialogue, not controlling the message.
  

• My favorite person in Charlotte today: Matt Wadley, the social media guy at Wachovia/Wells, We just sat down at Caribou in Founders Hall and had a great talk for a while. He blogs at at http://blog.wellsfargo.com and is the Twitter voice of Wachovia, @wachovia.

• Starting to get together my talk to the Charlotte Rotary, the big one uptown with hundreds of members, for Aug. 4. But will the old guys who sip wine at one table know what the heck I'm talking about? www.charlotterotary.org
  
• John Hancock wants me to do a regular thing on his show on WBT-1110 AM. I want to go on Bob & Sheri. But they don't like to admit they're based in Charlotte. And I want to do a regular video with Creative Loafing blogger and former TopCat Brittney Cason, right. Because she's smart. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/brittneyafterdark/

• CLT tweeps, including me, traded notes on the big thunderstorms the past two nights. Reassuring to connect with people around the city during the ka-blammy. Twitter equivalent of Maria singing "My Favorite Things" during the storm in "The Sound Of Music," see bottom image.

• My favorite Charlotte tweeters: @upsideup (Laurie Smithwick, smart graphic designer/businesswoman), @crystaldempsey (former Observerite and Amelie's Bakery manager), @mikemcbride9 (marketer lets it all hang out), @rthames (yes, Rick Thames is my boss as ed. of The Observer, but active and real online), @janaforeman (not afraid to play) and @underoak (Andria Krewson, tech-savvy former Observerite.) Many more mentions to come.
  

• If 80% of your LinkedIn connections are current co-workers, you might not be branching out enough.

• The Chamber's main account @cltchamber has 740+ followers. Not bad considering they launched in February.

• Google Wave scares me. Not because it wouldn't be great to have interactive emails that are changeable, publishable, and media-friendly. Because Google's behind it. And Google is one controlling, intimidating company. I spent some time there last year, and I can tell you: Google is the anti-Twitter. http://wave.google.com/

• The biggest hurdle for the 50 million who just joined Facebook was privacy concerns. So why don't they care now?

• My favorite moment ever on social media was when a high school classmate posted "What kind of boyfriend doesn't even call on Valentine's Day?" Maybe she could've called every girlfriend she ever had and received the same response. But I doubt it.

• Mike Redding, of WCNC "Carolina Traveler" fame, I love you, and many other people love you. Stop blasting on Twitter and start interacting. People are annoyed.