Social MEdia Top 5: Game Over, Evil PR, Scoville Burnout
Doug Haslam 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.…
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Social Media Top 5: Welcome to the Hotel Cali-Facebook
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…
Social Media Top 5: 140 Characters, PodCamp, New Twitter and Stupid Fight
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…
Social Media Top 5: Klout or Out? Blog Taxes, Power of a Tweet
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…
Social Media Top 5: Five Years From Now, People Will Still be Making Know-Nothing Predictions
“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…
Social Media Top 5: Anonymity Lives(?), Facebook’s Movie Tie-in (oops), & Podcasting
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…
Social Media Top 5: Cat Fights, Shark Jumps (Apple?) & Silver Fish (Old Spice)
see more 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…
Social Media Top 5: No Mobile Updates, Content Curation, Yelp Smarter than Foursquare?
Only 10% Using Mobile to Update Social Networks? Really? That’s what the Pew Internet and American Life Project says, according to Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim. I know I am in…
Social Media Top 5: UrbanDictionary Style Guide & More Movies to Mash with FourSquare
Overload and the Social Media Top 5 I will never succumb to using the term “attention crash” (though I am prone to frequent “attention fender-benders”), but my attempt to split…
Social Media Top 5 (2) You Might Not Vomit But Your Head Will Spin
(Social Media Top 5) Social Media InfoGraphics Perhaps my previous post on Google Buzz vomit fuels my nausea meme, but my new acquaintance LaSandra Brill (met her at Smash Summit…