You can always tell when it’s been a slow news day. There’s yet another provocative news story, pronouncing the death of email, or blogging, or Twitter. You name it. Several weeks ago the New York Times wrote that blogging among young people was on the decline, according to research from the Pew Center’s Internet and [...]
To help you get more value from my postings, I added the LinkWithin widget to my blogs today. This widget can automatically suggest, for any new post, related stories found elsewhere within the blog. I’m still getting a feel for what it considers to be “related” — and am already chuckling at some of its [...]
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I’m delighted to get back some control over my privacy settings in Facebook. Unlike Facebook’s founder, I believe I own my relationships, and I should be in complete control over who gets to see what. Having said that, I’m upset that Facebook forces me to waste so much time monitoring my privacy settings and profile [...]
Identity is complicated, as I discovered when filling out a Facebook profile. Even seemingly simple questions like where is your hometown are not easy when you’ve lived in multiple places. For married women, there’s also the complication of which name (or combination of names) to use… Hometowns Facebook lets you name only one hometown. Its [...]
Today I managed to have fun while working. At long last I set up a personal Facebook page and uploaded some family photos. At the same time I transferred files and apps from a 2-year-old MacBook Pro to a brand new MacBook Pro (one of the models released earlier this week). I got the first [...]
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Reflecting back on 2009 and looking ahead to 2010, I came across a great quote that got me thinking: You are the same today as you are going to be five years from now, except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. — Source: Charles Jones, cited in [...]
The hype around social media as conversation has become deafening. Much of the hyperbole comes from agencies and consultants who have seized upon social media as the next wave; their motivation is self-serving, of course. Promoting their credentials as social media experts enables them Print PDF
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My PC now sports a nice update from TweetDeck. It’s smart enough to shorten URLs automatically, and supports drag-and-drop of photos to Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. Nice time-saving features… Print PDF
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There’s a very real obstacle to successful social media engagement, and that’s the fact that “most companies and agencies were not built for dialogue,” according to Matt Dickman of Fleishman Hillard. It’s not just a problem of scale. Most businesses lack the cultures for open-minded listening and responding, and cultures tend to take a long [...]
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Video: Twitter Gets Mainstream Attention « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing. I had a chuckle this morning, courtesy of a friend who works at Microsoft. She passed on a link to the “Twitter spoof video” that Jeremiah Owyang showed in a blog post this week. Although tongue in cheek, the [...]
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