Google Updates Profiles. Social Networking Next?
Back in December, I wrote a post called “Google’s Becoming More Social” that explored a few interesting ways that Google was incorporating more social networking aspects into their basic services....
View ArticleLecture Notes on Cyberethics
Below this section, you’ll find my original post. This section is some of the updates and points we discussed on 13 April 2010. I didn’t get to the section on Copyright and Creative Commons, but I’d...
View ArticleTwitter Quitters: API Sucking Away Traffic
A few weeks ago, Mashable.com ran an interesting story about returning Twitter users. The original story reported that only 60% of Twitter users returned during the same month they first registered an...
View ArticleTwitter Reputation
I just found this article at Search Engine Land by Eric Ward about a potential “Twitter Reputation Algorithm” and how it should work. The article is very interesting on a number of levels. First,...
View ArticleNonProfits Dabbling with Social Media
I have just had the time to review and digest a new report from NTEN about Social Media and Non-Profits. The report, The Non-Profit Social Networking Survey Report, was based on interviews with 980...
View ArticleUnbelievable Privacy Intrusion By Bozeman, Montana
Just found this story on ReadWriteWeb.com. You can read the original article on the Montana News Station site. Pretty unbelievable. Especially, as a commenter points out, because it requires you to...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?
A few weeks back The Wall Street Journal released their policy statement and guidelines for employees using social media. For a few weeks before that, I had been working on the ideas for this post and...
View ArticleWhat is the Point of Social Media?
With the world atwitter about Facebook and CNN falling all over itself to promote it’s Twitter account, what’s the point? Does social media really improve your life? A few months back I was talking to...
View ArticleJoe Wilson’s Outburst and Rob Miller’s Lucky Night: Thanks Social Media
At first, I couldn’t even make out what the heckler said. I heard the President interrupt his speech to correct the offending congressman. Watched the rest of the speech, some of the commentary, etc....
View ArticleNSFW: “Bringing Nothing to the Party” for FREE!
Paul Carr has just released his recent book, “Bringing Nothing to the Party”, for free, online. Wanna download the book? Is this great PR? Of course, people who wouldn’t buy or haven’t heard of...
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