Posts in: Social media
- Lies that Social Media Tells You
- Those guys make money because they’re saying something that Fortune 500 companies and major investment banks like to hear. It’s ad copy about how Social Media empowers the little guy, and it’s simply not true. The big winners are the aggregators, the central nodes in the network, and those are all owned by the same [...] [5 Aug 2010]
- Big brother is Google
- One reaction is to diversify: Hotmail instead of Gmail, MapQuest instead of Google Maps, AOL Instant Messenger instead of Google Chat ’ though that would mean losing the accumulated benefits of linked services. Another reasonable response is to focus efforts on improving our (new) media literacy so that we’re more mindful of how much even [...] [18 Feb 2010]
- On the internet as surrogate meeting place
- From Saudi women revel in online lives on GlobalPost: In a country where about one-third of the population regularly goes online, the internet gives women “a place to vent out our frustrations and our dreams,“ said Reem Asaad, 37, a professor of banking and finance in the Saudi port city of Jeddah who blogs at [...] [4 Feb 2010]
- Lynne d. Johnson on social media and digital content
- From Social Times, an interview with Lynne d. Johnson, Senior Vice President at the Advertising Research Foundation and a beloved member of my blog family. The interview begins with a look back at Johnson’s career and ends with some of her insights about social media marketing. For example: Even more than social media, digital content [...] [19 Nov 2009]
- “Continuous partial attention” and “email apnea” from the CBC’s “Spark” podcast
- The CBC’s Spark podcast is one of my regular listens. One recent episode featured an interview with Linda Stone, a longtime tech thought leader. She coined the term continuous partial attention, to describe our new way of multi-tasking and always-on communications. Now Stone has coined a new phrase: e-mail apnea. Stone first described e-mail apnea [...] [8 Nov 2009]
- My love life. Online.
- I know this post is a bit disjointed. I wrote it in a bit of a rush this morning because I wanted to put it out there while I felt inspired to do it. I learned this lesson the hard way. I blogged about my breakup that started in February 2007, here, on Vox, and [...] [8 Sep 2008]
- Plurk.com: Twitter on a timeline
- Meet Plurk, another Twitter-like microblogging service. It’s a fairly new addition to a space that also includes Pownce and Jaiku. After using it for a few hours, I’m torn between loving Plurk’s take on the 140-character update and thinking there’s just too much interface. Plurk does some things beautifully — the Getting Started Guide — [...] [2 Jun 2008]
- Aww junk! I been BoingBoinged! (Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?)
- Yeah, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing.net was at the South by Southwest “Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?” — a panel I was asked to join at the last minute (but not the very last minute. That honor belongs to Cheryl . ). So Joel wrote about it, and the comments went straight to typical. Which, [...] [14 Mar 2008]
- Tips for using the web to run your business
- TwoThree posts on turning your office into a web-based one. The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need 8 Steps to running your business on (mostly) free apps The Social Enterprise – What Works, and What Doesn’t Somewhat related: Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups Freebie resources for designers Review: [...] [6 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: “The Big Juicy Twitter Guide”
- If you’re a Twitter-phile like myself, you don’t need to be convinced of the service’s value. But just in case you need to convince someone else, Caroline Middlebrook’s series The Big Juicy Twitter Guide is an excellent resource. In it, Middlebrook covers everything you would need to know before getting started with Twitter: etiquette, branding, [...] [6 Nov 2007]