Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Friday, February 6th, 2009
Twestival: I had been hearing quite a bit about Charity:Water over the last few months, from a semi-mysterious mailed invitation to a New York fundraiser party in December (I got thrown off by the lack of social media context) to my good friend Laura Fitton's fundraising via TipJoy and Twitter. ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
What Really Needs to Change? How about journalists making themselves the story (and for the purposes of this column, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is a journalist)? Dating back to my time in journalism, it has always irked me when journalists make themselves part of the story. I want a ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Has Obama broken a social media promise? - I have been very skeptical of the idea that President Obama's will be a "social media" administration. Federal government seems to me the last fortress against transparency and interactivity- at least where it comes to adopting new methods- not to mention there ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
The New York Times' David Pogue posts Twitter Tips for Beginners: A great common-sense starter guide for the bewildered Twitter newcomer. What's hilarious is that Poguue was berated by some Twitter users for "acting like a newbie." Off with their heads! That's no way to be social.
Are Social Media ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I promised with heart crossed, swore up and down, and insisted to the edge of embarrassment that I would not do one of those "year end" posts, where I either list my "best blog posts of 2008" (you don't care), make "predictions for 2009" (as if I- or anyone else ...
Posted in Social Media Top 5, rant, social media | 4 Comments »
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Goodbye Pownce, We Hardly Knew Ye - Remember when people were begging and scrambling for beta invitations to Pownce? As a hardcore Twitter user, I did appreciate the differences that the Pownce service presented: threaded conversation, the ability to share small files. But the core application was still quick, short ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em - and make 'em laugh until they buy your stuff. More entertainment companies should follow this "treat your customers with respect and trust your product" direction. The Monty Python Troupe have put a number of popular television and movie clips up on YouTube ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
A bunch of social media events and topics have caught my eye in the past week. Not least of which, I have been busy attending Social Media Breakfast 10 in Cambridge MA, and the annual Society of New Communications Research symposium in Boston.
I posted briefly on the breakfast the ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
It must be summer-- I have been delinquent for two weeks in getting out a Social Media Top 5, putting me at risk of becoming a snark-fader. But there is quite a bit to talk about in the social media world, isn't there?
Bryan Person moves from Boston to Austin. ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A few less-than-consequential things picked up this past weekend at PodCamp Boston 3. There's only four to start, but that'll do:
Quote of the weekend: "This is where I ran out of Schlitz." Joe Cascio, describing the end of inspiration for assembling his presentation on distributed microblogging. I decided to adopt ...
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