Social Media Top 5: Virality and Death (of Twitter, Newspapers, Likes)
Doug Haslam So macabre, my theme this week: How to Viral and So Can You (Spoiler Alert: You Can’t, Really) I remain skeptical of the idea of “viral” media, or at least…
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Pan-Mass Challenge Fundraising Recap: 2016
Every August, I put on a ridiculous spandex outfit, a pair of shoes not made for walking, a helmet and gloves and get on my bike to ride from Wellesley…
Social Media Top 5: Moldy Peach, Twitter Censorship is Awesome, Content Shock Still Imaginary
Still Fuzzy About Peach Here is my review of the new Peach social app (the Android version): ……. I think that covers it, and is why I pay no mind…
Social Media Top 5: Find Something Interesting to Read
Medium is Not a Publishing Tool? As often as anything else on Medium, it seems, I see posts from Founder Ev Williams or one of his cohort with a windy…
Social Media Top 5: The Blogfather Speaks, The CEO Counts & the Map Don’t Lie
Only three this week. We’ve had holidays. Happy New Year. Iran’s “Blogfather” – This is Why we Must Have Good Things After last week’s story about Medium claiming to be…
Social Media Top 5: Disclosure, Polls, Platforms, Alarm Clocks & Pandas
Disclosure Geeks Rejoice: New FTC Rules on Advertorials Over the last few years, many folks have noticed a rise in the use of advertor.. oh wait, we’re supposed to call…
Social Media Top 5: Lessons Learned From “Lessons Learned from Star Wars” Posts (NO SPOILERS)
Here we go again: the long-awaited new Star Wars movie is out (side note: I’m ok with spoilers; either the movie is good or it’s not), and the predictable “Lessons…
Social Media Top 5: Podcasters Ask the Wrong Question, Don’t Period Your Text & The War on Tree-Blobs
I actually had more material than I could use this week, how about that? I had to trim and five and was able to avoid any mentions of Donald Trump…
Social Media Top 5: #ShmivingTuesday, Twitter Share Count Hysteria, & the SpareMe Economy
#GivingTuesday, #ShmivingTuesday I have spent a lot of snark-energy lately on the various “Days” that invade our calendar. One might consider that unsurprising, knowing that I’m not a big holidays…
Social Media Top 5: New Google Plus, Oxford Strikes Again & Noms-d’Imbécile
Meet the New Google Plus, Same as the- Hey, Wait a Minute… Google has made changes to Google Plus. This might be great, it might be a “so what;” I’m…