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social media ’
I was just reading a post by Michael Masnick at Techdirt were he was taking up the subject of abundance and how as a society we are unprepared to deal with that concept. His jumping off point ...
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Back in August last year I wrote about my fears that we are facing a trust crisis in the social media space.
I've been disconnected from the United States since that time, so this post applies primarily to ...
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Although as a rabid Jay-Z fan who finds "Empire State of Mind" to be the hottest rap track in the past 12 months, I should love this social media parody, I have to admit I kind of ...
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Human nature is a fascinating thing to watch and yet when it comes to Social Media there seems to be a total lack of understanding about human nature. As much as the Web 2.0 proponents want to desperately believe in the ...
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Usually the "become a fan" button does little on Facebook besides get your friends to make lewd or derisive comments.
However, in a style of promotion that is doubtlessly becoming more common, Nabisco is giving away cookies on ...
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A woman named Angie Jackson created an inevitable firestorm of controversy this week when she decided to live-tweet her medical abortion.
Jackson, 27, hit up her own blog, YouTube and Twitter with the ongoing details of her in-progress ...
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I have tried valiantly to make my way through some 35 posts that have been written about Google Buzz, their new attempt at jumping on the social media bandwagon. Seriously, I really tried, but at some point ...
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In the light of the disaster on Haiti and how it is being reported in the news by some journalists there have been a few journalism mouthpieces who have questioned said reporting. Now the Society of Professional ...
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Social Media is not the tools like Twitter and Facebook regardless of how much the people living off of VC dollars might want to have you believe they are.
Social Media cannot be framed or described through any ...
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From buyouts to advances in technology to facelifts for old familiar friends, 2010 is going to bring about a lot of changes to the web, as each year prior to it has also accomplished. While many moves ...
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There has been a thought percolating in the back of my mind as I watch the incredible response by ordinary people which in turns seems to be prompting corporations to step forward in ways that they haven't ...
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Ya gotta love Scoble when he decides to offer up constructive criticisms slash suggestions much like he did today in his post about Twitter's numbers going flat.
He quite rightly pointed that any attempt to track Twitter numbers ...
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What is one of the most tossed around hot phrases when it comes to social media?
Well of course it's the customer is a part of the conversation and companies are listening to us. Ya. Okay.
Look if you're ...
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Even though in this new social media where all companies are suppose to value consumer communication along with a new sense of openness and transparency the fact is - it's a load of crap. Pure unadulterated crap.
The ...
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From store front windows to Christmas parades around the world everyone gets into the spirit in their own way. For social media sites whose logos are their window to the world their logos are getting spruce up ...
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No folks, there's no need to go hunting for the utmost ridiculous idea to come out of 2009. It might have just scrapped under the wire with all the big fast food blogs handing out invite codes ...
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You laugh now, but perhaps one day your kids will be doing it (or whatever version of "it" is popular when they're 16 and on the business end of a shotgun.)
Via Mashable comes the video below in ...
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There is this Utopian viewpoint propagated by the social media mavens that while our personal data is one of our more important processions; both on-line and off-line, but we should feel safe with letting it become the property of companies and ...
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Earlier this week Jesse Stay, the man behind the Twitter service SocialToo, wrote a rather interesting post suggesting that in order to move the web forward to that mystical 3.0 version we need to start looking at ...
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What are the limits to the conversation in our social media world?
At what point does it become either too much information (TMI) or cross the line of polite society?
Back near the end of September Penelope Trunk, CEO ...
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Daily Fail Mail writer Jan Moir's article, originally titled Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death, has taken over Twitter, spawned a Facebook group and crashed a website that handles press complaints.
The piece, now titled ...
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Well, that was disappointing.
The techno-spooky interface of Coke Zero's new website, billing itself as a "worldwide social experiment," starts with words on the screen: If Coke Zero has Coke's taste... is it possible someone out there has ...
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