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Have we got our head in the clouds about the value of online community?

January 4, 2011

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. He’s a very smart guy and we agreed and disagreed on quite a lot of things. Here’s the crux of the discussion from my point of view. If it’s not yours, or if it is, please–for the love of community–pitch in and SAY [...]

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Social Media Efficiency

September 22, 2010

The number one question I get about social media is: “How can I do all this social media stuff and still get my work done?” Great question isn’t it? I mean, OK, I confess I spend all day attached to social media like an IV but that’s my job. People hire me to watch out [...]

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Twitter’s Big Announcement

September 14, 2010

I just listened to the live Ustream broadcast of Twitter’s big announcement thanks to @Scobleand Ustream. Well, me and over 4500 other viewers, so I thought I’d give you a quick re-cap. A few stats: 375,000 new users sign up per day, 16% of those are on mobile. There’s a greater need for people to [...]

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Groupon Goes For the Big Brands

August 19, 2010

Up to now Groupon has offered deals for local retailers and it’s been a boon to the niche businesses to get access to a bigger market. Even a tiny business can get a lot of bang for their buck out of a Groupon offer. With today’s offer from the Gap though, the game has shifted. [...]

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Twitter Tells Tales on it’s Users

August 17, 2010

Twitter announced today a new feature called “Twitter Tales“. The idea is to feature the stories of users and how Twitter has impacted their lives. The first story is about Natasha Badhwar (@natashabadhwar ) from New Delhi, who writes micro-poetry and stories that inspire and entertain as well as fragments of insight into her life [...]

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Twitter to Offer Deals with Earlybird

July 8, 2010

I’m a big fan of group coupon networks, deals and discounts offered through Twitter. In these times what’s not to love about buying a coupon for a dinner at 40 or 50% of it’s market value? It’s a win for the vendor too because they get new faces in the door and most times we [...]

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Social Networks and Privacy

June 17, 2010

I was on a panel today at CFP entitled “Privacy, Activism, & Social Networking: Protecting Privacy While Running a Media Campaign in 140 Characters or Less” with Tamar Gubins, Deborah Pierce, David Roth and Danny O’Brien and I’ve been going round and round in my head about my own position on privacy online and looking [...]

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Wait a minute, did Guy Kawasaki just call me a “Social Media Nazi”??

June 16, 2010

Well I guess he sorta did. I went to the Ragan Social Media Summit event at Cisco #RaganCisco ) last week and I have to say Guy’s presentation was outstanding. He’s amazing and I loved it. Even if he DID call out a certain group of social media mavens as “social media Nazis”. Ok, and [...]

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Twitter Visualization Done Right

January 17, 2010

Stamen Design is a boutique design firms in San Francisco that consistently leads the pack with innovative displays of data. I’ve admired their work for many years and they’re famous for creating unique ways to view live data as it happens–like the groundbreaking coverage of the Whitbread Cup way back in the ’90s when founder [...]

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Twitter and LinkedIn Partner-is This a Good Thing?

November 10, 2009

Twitter and LinkedIn announced a new partnership yesterday to bring the two apps together for the first time. You’ll be able to update your status on LinkedIn and have it go out to Twitter or send your tweets out to your LinkedIn connections. just as you can do now with blog updates. When I first [...]

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