Dear Yelp,
I love you. Really, I loves me some food and I loves me some honest customer feedback. I’m guessing that a lot of people love you for the same reason I do: I put more stock in what Johnny-Down-The-Street has to say about a local chinese place than some prissy dining guide written by [...]
My journey linking twitter to Facebook.
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As Twitter continues to surge in popularity and businesses look at its practical application, a debate has started over the use of Twitter Automation. Services like TweetLater and SocialToo allow you too autofollow everyone who follows you, automatically send dircet messages to every new follower, and even schedule “tweets” to be sent out at a [...]
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While teaching a Social Media course at the 2009 Miva Merhcant Conference last week, I was asked by one of the attendees about the phenomenon of Brand Jacking on Twitter. For those of you who are unaware, Brand Jacking (on Twitter in particular) is the act of creating a profile and sending out tweets representing [...]
There is an inevitable pattern of migration in Social Media. I often tell people that we all “follow the kids.” I was 26 years old when I joined Friendster back in 2003, and I was still among the older people on the site. Then I heard about MySpace, and that space was primarily youth oriented. [...]
As we all move into 2009, making various and sundry resolutions aimed at improving the quality of our lives, I am reminded of a great quote I read in Peter Kim’s Blog that discussed Social Media predictions for 2009 from fourteen Web 2.0 Rock Stars:
“Although it is now cheaper to launch an initiative leveraging Web [...]
During a recent discussion of Social Media on LinkedIn about the business use of Twitter, the conversation quickly expanded to include the ways in which businesses are embracing and using Social Media as a tool. Someone shared this list from Peter Kim featuring an alphabetical list of companies and corporate entities with some form of [...]
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As proof of how quickly things move here in Web 2.0, I submit a humble remembrance for Pownce, the social aggregator whose developers will now be working for SixApart, no doubt creating the blogging tools of tomorrow. Now the many displaced Powncers out there will have to find a new favorite home for sharing their [...]
As the Social Media movement continues to take hold and create a new standard for interaction over the internet, I’ve found that the biggest factor keeping people from joining us on Web 2.0 is simply fear. In fact, a recent survey of top executives found that while a great number of respondents had no plans [...]
