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December, 2012

Social Media Lessons From Every Holiday TV Special Ever Made

Friday, December 21st, 2012

I love holidays, I love TV, and I definitely love “Social Media Lessons” posts. So here are my totally classy social media lessons from these TV gems. Happy Holidays everyone. The Internet Cat Meme Fad is Fraudulent: Do you remember a Garfield Christmas special? Thought not. Dogs, reindeer, Yetis, all should claim their rightful place. Stop [...]

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Instagram Licensing Your Photos? Here are Some They Can Use Now

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Instagram, the popular app for making your crappy mobile photos look like, well, slightly less crappy photos, has the Internet up in arms with its recent announced change to its Terms of Service. In January, Instagram will begin reserving the right to license and profit from any of the photos you upload to Instagram and [...]

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The Internet of Flings: Taking Care With Buzzwords

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Having been in PR and social media for many years now, I have witnessed up close the love/hate relationship my profession has with buzzwords. I define “love” in this instance as “laziness,” of course. In my tech PR days, among the most reviled buzzwords were “solution,” “scalable” and “robust.” Here’s the thing about buzzwords: They originally [...]

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Exerting Control and Limiting: One Way to Change User Behavior

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Some idle-ish thoughts on the fight to build social network platforms: There is an interesting dynamic – a war, perhaps – going on in the word of social networks. Imbedded in this war is the problem, and fear, that many social platforms have: from the upstart side, the need is to get the users and [...]

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Social Media, Marketing and Specialization

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

The idea of specialization vs the idea of a more well-rounded approach is a long-running argument in PR and other communications disciplines. is it best to be an all-rounder or to specialize? The answer, most likely, is “Yes.” One aspect of specialization is organizational, usually represented as silos. I recently got through reading “Marketing in [...]

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