In the stupidest idea of the week category we have the New Jersey principal who wants parents to join together and ban their kids from using social networking sites. He asserts that there is “absolutely, positively no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site! None.” Please. How […]
Archives for April 2010
Yet Another Level of Facebook Sucking: Community Pages
As if there weren’t already enough things to dislike about Facebook: the way Pages can’t be unlinked from creators, the way it is making billions off your personal information…I’m not even going to continue because it could take all day. You get the point. At any rate, back to “as if there weren’t already enough […]
Your Life…As Depicted By Foursquare
I saw this tweet today by @eric_andersen: “Great point! “Foursquare can paint a very vivid picture of your life”–and had to laugh because I can’t help but think this exact thing every time I use Foursquare. As in, my life, as depicted through my Foursquare activity, is exceedingly lame. Seriously–I mean, by the looks of […]
The View from 20,000 Fans (I Refuse to Say Likers)
For those of you who don’t already know it, I’m the online community & social media manager for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). I don’t usually write about stuff specific to ASHA but reaching 20,000 fans (like I said in the title, I cannot bring myself to say “likers”) on Facebook feels blog-worthy, so I […]
How to Add Facebook’s New “Like” Button to Blogger
I’ll preface this by saying that this is the bootleg way to add the button; I’m sure there’s a better way to do it so people can like individual posts rather than the whole blog. But until Blogger or someone else posts those instructions you might want to try the new “like” button feature on […]
Three Things About Social Media That Just Don’t Make Sense…And Piss Me Off
Without any fanfare, here are three things about social media that are perplexing me today: Posterous comes to Ning’s rescue. Except, um, last time I checked Posterous was a lazy-person’s blog platform and Ning was a fully-functioning social network. It’s like saying that Disney World is closing but have no fear–a movie theater chain is […]
Bye Ads
Does this blog look a little different to you? It’s because I have stopped running BlogHer ads. I started running them 10 months ago purely out of curiosity to see how much money you really make running ads. The answer, for me at least, turned out to be a total of I think $30 over […]
QR Code Fun
Have a QR code reader app on your phone? If so, scan these to view my Linkedin profile, Twitter page and (redundant but oh well) this blog. Have no idea what I’m talking about? Wikipedia is always a good place to start, and here are a few other resources: What is a QR Code and […]
Maybe You Can Collect Those Old Tweets After All
Today the Library of Congress announced “Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. I’ve blogged before about my frustrations with Twitter search and the fact Twitter’s archives only go back about 1.5 weeks. Does this mean that companies will be able to get […]
What if Associations Followed British Spy Agency’s Lead?
Fired for not embracing social media? Yep. It’s happening in the UK. Britain’s spy agency says it’s firing some “James Bond-generation agents” (read: older) because they’ve “failed to master social networking and other Internet technology.” Is this just a convenient way around age discrimination lawsuits–or good practice for businesses? What if associations started doing this? […]