Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Well, they're at it again. We're at it again. People in search of a way to look at how "authoritative" a Twitter message is have come up with a tool. Seesmic's Loic LeMeur is one of the folks behind http://twitority.com/ Trouble is, authority is slippery. I don't know how ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Twitter is the stupid application that won't go away. There are lots of signs that it is going mainstream- especially a constant, growing flow of press mentions (I felt a corner was turned when Twitter made the Sunday New York Times 3 times in one day).
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb says ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Months ago, I requested and received from Forrester Research a review copy of the book "Groundswell" by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Little did they know it would take me months to get around to finishing it, or that I would try (and fail) to post my review via phone, ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
I was going to use my Uttercast today to finally review the book "Groundswell." I figured much had already been said and I could fit my review in the 1000 characters I get on my phone.
It turns out I can't get everything in such a small space; 100-200 words.
Are ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Last night I took part in a chat among journalists, bloggers & PR flacks, called "journchat." For summaries of these Monday talks, use Twitter Search for"journchat" or go to http://journchat.info/. There was too much to follow, but one discussion I took part in was one about PR relationships with journalists.
I ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
The social media follower-counter's nightmare: Twitter decided to purge deleted and suspended accounts from the system, sending users' "followers" totals plummeting overnight. The good news-- if you passed a "round number" milestone, you get to pass it again. Shiny!
Did social media kill the PR star? No, I agree with Shannon ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I love music and movies, and the biggest challenge in trying to find new sources of art and entertainment is in figuring out what the critics are really saying.
The best critics know not only whether and why they like something, but also anticipate how their readers might disagree.
Case in point: ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
So Chris Brogan (http://www.chrisbrogan.com/…and-trust/) threw a few noses out of joint when he ran a sponsored post on his dad-o-matic blog. Good for him. Perhaps he worried in retrospect that he didn't disclose enough in advance what he would be doing, since he had an advisory capacity in the firm, ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
There is lots of talk about social media etiquette these days, and the only hard rule I can come up with is there are no hard rules. That doesn't mean I can't occasionally rant about things that bug me. Yesterday, I took on the practicing of automatically "direct messaging" people ...
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Social Media Breakfast Boston Fights Hunger, Virtually: Even a Kool-Aid swilling social media enthusiast like me was impressed at the power of a small act multiplied. The breakfast, themed "Social Media for Social Change," featured speakers Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog and many endeavors such as Cambodia4Kids, Gradon Tripp ...
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