Social Media

How @YahooNews is changing the game

September 3, 2010

There are plenty of news organizations on twitter however most of them are a study in what not to do. However, one organization has risen above glorified RSS feeds and with a single twitter account changed my opinion of an entire news division. Here’s how @YahooNews changed the game. The secret weapon – People Check [...]

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Social Bookmarking – The land time forgot

August 28, 2010

In an online world filled with likes & retweets the lowly bookmark is in a state of severe neglect. The social world is developing a myriad of ways to share content and judge what’s popular while disregarding the value in organizing & discovering useful content. To illustrate my point: You know that really cool how-to [...]

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Facebook Places and Geosocial Land Grab

August 19, 2010

This isn’t about Facebook places, it’s about the goldmine of aggregating GeoSocial data. Facebook fires an impressive shot… can Google answer?

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Chris Brogan’s insights into Social Media Marketing

August 15, 2010

@ChrisBrogan (ChrisBrogan.com) joined @MackCollier (MackCollier.com) for #BlogChat this evening to share tips for marketing and promoting your blog through social media and while it was focused toward blogging I think the tips universally apply to most any social media strategy. The tweetstream was a bit crazy but as always Chris shared some well reasoned and [...]

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Tackling Texting with Twitter

August 13, 2010

How can you move your message beyond “social media” into the hands of the public instantly? I’m often experimenting with information distribution channels and recently I was presented with a new challenge. In a few days we are expecting the birth of our first child and we are blessed with the task with keeping friends [...]

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A feature wish list for Facebook

August 10, 2010

Today we’ve learned that Facebook is testing an notification unsubscribe option and honestly it’s about time. I’m weary of liking something only to get notifications of ever comment left on that post. This idea of subscribing to a topic has been around the web for years and yet Facebook is just discovering it. It is [...]

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Giving you permission to just be you.

July 30, 2010

Stay active on Twitter long enough and you’ll find yourself at an online identity crisis. As your reputation grows in a particular community or subject matter you’ll suddenly discover that you are torn between perceived community expectations and just being yourself. This is your permission slip to just be yourself. Less is More… So I [...]

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