Social Media Top 5: (Not) Getting Google Wave, Godin Upholds Dunbar, and a Twitter Appliance
Doug Haslam Google Wave: I Got It! I Get It. I Don’t Get it…. I finally got one of the coveted invites to Google Wave, the brand-new collaborative tool from the search…
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Social Media Top 5: Getting Metaphysical with FourSquare, Books, Drawing Disclosure
FourSquare- Mayor of Squatville I have been using FourSquare, the service which lets you alert friends of your whereabouts, a bit lately. I like the utility for nights out and…
Social Media Top 5: Pay for Twitter, Stupid Transparency Tricks, and WaPo Social Media Guidelines
Pay for Twitter? Dan Ziman says yes, and lays out his case. A couple of years ago I said I would pay for Twitter (and Dan’s $30/year is in my…
Social Media Top 5: Undead Embargoes, oneforty.com & Death by iPhone
Embargoes Are Dead (Again)- So Says TechCrunch Michael Arrington has some points in that some big companies (like Google) have finally succumbed to no-embargo news, but to declare embargoes dead…
Social Media Top 5: No Experts Need Apply, Facebook Owns YOU, and PR Running the Show
Don’t Call Me an Expert (or I’ll Tell Geoff Livingston) I can always count on Geoff to call BS on people in the social media space getting high on our…
Social Media Top 5: Blame-A-Thon, Facebook vs. TechCrunch (Please Let There be More) & Good PR Stuff
I #blamedrewscancer for missing most of the “Blame-A-Thon” Not long ago, Drew Olanoff, a familiar and active member of the online community, confronted his newly-diagnosed cancer with the humor- and…
The One Reason to Focus on Tools
Often, social media experts say "don’t talk about the tools; it’s not about the tools." Of course, it’s true; to understand social media, one needs to understand communications, which transcends…
Social Media Top 5: You Don’t Need Lifestreaming to Succeed, and Long Blog Posts
Tried to keep up with the world, while managing to take a late summer break: What is This Fascination with Lifestreaming? Wasn’t it just a week or two ago that…
Social Media Top 5: I Am Smart and Handsome and My Cat is Adorable
Well, It’s official- Social Media is For Narcissists. That’s according to a study called The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement produced by San Diego State University and…
Social Media Top 5: PR on PR Crime, Pointless Babble, and Jets on Twitter
When Bad PR Happens to Good PR People… …well, watch out below. It seems an email listserv goof-up prompted a comedy of Reply-Alls followed by a flurry of blog posts…