Archive for the ‘Social Media Top 5’ Category
Monday, June 20th, 2011
One: OK, You're Awesome- Now Get to Work
We hear a lot in the social media world about being "awesome." some of the people who espouse this are great friends, others are simply well-known within our little industry. I'm all for building up our confidence with supportive epithets like this, ...
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Saturday, June 4th, 2011
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The Age of Social Media Gurus Ends, the Age of Integration of Social Begins; or the Age of Wrapping the Startlingly Obvious in Bacon and Calling it Vision
Since I got involved in social media, it was a given- to me at least-that ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Trust for Trust's Sake? I Don't Trust That Notion
There has been a lot of talk about Trust in social media circles over the last few years. I agree that trust is important in business (not just social media- let's stop isolating broad concepts, shall we?), but does a company try ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
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Gamification and Game Mechanics
I am getting a little tired-- ok, I was instantly tired when the word surfaced-- of the application of "gamification" to everything new in social media. In most cases, I see gaming as more of a gimmick. Did the idea ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
Welcome to the Hotel Cali-Facebook
"You can opt out any time you want...."
When Facebook Groups came out, it intrigued me (ok, partly because it's my job). I was also pretty miffed pretty quickly, for reasons that have been well-documented:
People can add you to groups without your knowledge or permission. The "opt-out/your ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Facebook Down?
This is a first to me- a Facebook service disruption on September 22. Just a reminder to have other ways of connecting at the ready if you are relying on a service- even Facebook- that you don't own. That goes for people and businesses. What's your backup plan?
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Are "reputation" scores a waste of time or simply misunderstood?
Every time some tool come out that brags about being able to rank influence and reputation, people immediately jump on it as bunk or as a sign of narcissism and a lack of real priorities-- of course, those same people jumping on ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
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"Presentists" and "Everything is Dead (this one counts as 2)
Both Mitch Joel (in a post called "Presentists") and Danny Brown ("Everything is Dead- didn't You Get the Memo?") recently struck close to something that I have long agreed with: making pronouncements, "definitive" ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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Online Anonymity- Which Way Are We Headed?
Over dinner with a friend, the topic of community online discussion forums came up. And by "community," I mean "local" - your town or city. My friend said that his local forum can get pretty ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
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Some social media stories on my mind- just four this week, that's how it goes.
Social Media High School
I don't have much to say about the recent blogging slap-fight between Kami Huyse and Peter Shankman (except to say you're beautiful people and I love you all, and Geoff Livingston ...
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