My Top 5: All The Stupid Things Must Die
Doug Haslam A note to start: I am no longer calling this “Social Media Top 5.” I stopped doing social media exclusively a couple of years ago, and not sure I ever…
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Social Media Top 5: Politics on Facebook, LinkedIn Advertising & Cheap Tablets Are All Great
UPDATE: I had originally planned to write thoughts on how our new President’s use of Twitter as his outlet for kneejerk infantile rage showed both the possibilities and extreme downside…
Social Media Top 5: Funny Brands, Old News IN COLOR!, SEO Humor & The Year of Mobile
I have taken my sweet time since my last post. Yeah, Happy Holidays to you, too. However, this post is brought to you IN LIVING COLOR: To Feed or Not…
Social Media Top 5: Craptivism Won’t Kill You and Fake News is Alright (Not Really)
Craptivism Won’t Kill You I have long been reluctant to festoon my social media profiles with the trappings of social activism (remember “Twibbons?”), because I don’t really think I am…
Social Media Top 5: Pipeline Protests, Ballot Selfies, the Electoral Map & More
Activism/Slacktivism This morning (October 31) I started noticing friends checking in to Standing Rock, ND, the location of protests by Native Americans (the Standing Rock Sioux) against the Dakota Access…
Social Media Top 5: Fixing Conferences, Taking Coffee, Poaching Buzzfeed, Celebrating Social Media Club
How About Addressing the Real Problems with Conferences? Most of the tips for conferences in this post by Marcus Sheridan make sense; all are, at worst, arguable. They are also…
Social Media Top 5: Brangelina Shaming, AdBlockBlock, YouTube Community, TwitterLong
Four this week. So what… Brangelina Is Big News, so Spare Me Your Condescension I rarely have time for memes, but the I’m finding the latest to be as tiring…
Social Media Top 5: Twitter Sneetches, No Comment, Hashtags & Unnecessary Zoom
Of Blue Checkmarks and Sneetche The butthurt by Twitter power-users who don’t get their Verified Account checkmarks is still being heard ’round the world. I, too, was nonplussed after giving…
Social Media Top 5: Facebook Automated Trends is Just Fine, Blab is Dead, Disclosure is…Well…
Some of my items might be slightly out of date for a post that aspires to be weekly (Ha!), but I don’t care, as long as the relevance endures…but first…
Social Media Top 5: Instagram Disappears, Snapchat Offends, FTC Enforces, Twitter Censors, Facebook Spoils
Instagram Stories – I’m Trying to Care – I’m Trying really, really, hard. This has already been batted around a bit, but Instagram has launched a “stories” feature ripped directly,…