One of the good things about having a blog is that you can write about whatever you want. One of the weird things about having a blog is balancing creating content that others find useful and being self-promotional by either linking to your own posts or talking about yourself. So what happens when something cool […]
Archives for 2011
Huffington Post Bloggers Aren’t the Only Ones Getting Punked
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I have a long-standing obsession with citizen journalism and how it benefits companies but takes advantage of content creators. Almost a year ago I pondered what would be the tipping point for people deciding they’re tired of providing free content to media outlets who then make […]
Klout as a Tool for Community Managers: Why I Don’t Buy it
I’ve recently been seeing a slideshare presentation about Klout for Community Managers making the rounds to general fanfare. No offense to the authors of that presentation, but I totally don’t buy it. The biggest factor that goes into a Klout score is Twitter use. The more you tweet and the more followers you have, the […]
Facebook Comment Notifications Suck
Ok, maybe this doesn’t warrant a whole blog post, but since I crowed yesterday about how Facebook is finally offering Page Admins notifications via email when someone posts or comments on the Page’s wall, I think it’s only fair to quell the expectations that now all will be right with the world for Facebook Page admins. […]
New Facebook Page Admin Tools–Including Alerts!
Earlier today I saw that Facebook has added keyword moderation and profanity blocklists to the barely effective spam filter it introduced a few months ago. I say “barely effective” because my experience with the spam filter has been that it blocks posts that are fine and lets actual spam posts through. I’m the first to […]
The Myth of Influence
I’m by no means the only one who has called BS on the concept of influence; others have done a much better and thorough job of pointing out the problems inherent in the current crop of influence-measuring tools. When even the CEO of Twitalyzer says “to use Twitalyzer (or Klout for that matter) to make […]
“Social Media” or “Social Networking”–Which Term is Correct?
I recently learned that Forrester Research has launched new online communities aligned by professional role: IT, Technology Industry, and Marketing & Strategy professionals. Curious to see what was going on, I joined the marketing & strategy professionals one. The first discussion thread I noticed was titled “Please, please, please don’t call it “Social Networking”, unless you wanna […]
House Parties for Associations–Really?
So have you heard about House Parties? The first time I heard about them was when I read about Microsoft’s cringe-inducing Windows 7 launch party video. Didn’t exactly make me think of House Parties in a great light. Granted, that same campaign won a Forrester Groundswell Award…go figure….but I still maintain that it’s a goofy […]
Why I’m Breaking Up With Apple
First let me clarify: I’m not getting rid of my iPhone and my iPad isn’t going anywhere either. However, my love affair with Apple is definitely over and my MacBook is on my shit list. That, and there’s a new HP laptop in our house and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be taking the […]
Facebook Page Alert App SmackDown
If you administer one or more Facebook Pages you know that the most frustration feature (or lack thereof) of that task is the fact that Facebook does not offer any kind of alert mechanism to let you know when someone posts a new comment on your Wall, or comments on something you post. HUGE failing, […]