I don’t know what’s up with me but I’m just drawing a blogging blank these days. But I’ve been reading plenty of stuff, so rather than continue my blogging dry spell, I’ll at least steer you to some good posts other people are writing. My favorite new blog, Inside Facebook. Great–albeit pretty geeky–information about all […]
It’s A New Day for New Media Too
Today is a new day for Americans for an obvious reason–the first ever African-American President, a new sense of hope after what has felt to many like an 8-year free-fall, and just an overall feeling of happiness and excitment at a time when many people have little else to feel happy or excited about. But […]
Facebook Demographic Is Growing Older Every Day
According to iStrategyLabs, “a digital agency focused on providing clients with interactive strategy, experiential marketing and content creation services,”Facebook’s “older” demographic is growing at an exponential rate. According to their 2008 data, the 35-54 year old segment grew 172.9% in 10 months. Their newly-updated data for 2009 shows a 276% Growth in 35-54 Year Old […]
Watching Old Media Die, One Tweet At A Time
I’ve blogged about it before: old media is dying. A few days ago, Brian Solis had a great, statistics-laden post documenting “the looming exit of print newspapers as a primary source of national and international news.” Don’t want to take the time to read either one of those posts? Or just don’t believe it? Just […]
Middle East Mayhem On Twitter?
Yesterday David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, hosted a live press (well, really public) conference on Twitter to directly answer questions regarding the current situation in Israel and Gaza. From the press release: “This is the first time that a government is holding such […]
Autism Twitter Day
Yesterday I made two great discoveries in the blogosphere: this great post by Joe Boughner about the top 5 (well 4) SM trends that should die before 2009 and Autism Twitter Day. Yes, they are both related. Joe’s post talks about the way social media is becoming more about being one big popularity contest and […]
My Social Media Prediction for 2009–Assocations Will Get it Wrong
‘Tis the season for closing the door on the old year and looking forward to the new one. Rather than trying to cleverly and accurately sum up the state of social media in 2008, I’ll just paraphrase CNET news’ 2008 wrap-up post: “…it was a terrific year for social networks. Mostly.” Now go read the […]
Twitter in Real Life
There’s a good reason I’m a blogger and not a videographer: because I’m horrible at making videos. Actually, that’s not technically true; I haven’t ever tried to make a video. I don’t know the first thing about directing, editing, animating–frankly, I don’t even know the terms for the things I don’t know. Suffice it to […]
Changing of the Media Guards
A few months ago I posed the question “Will citizen journalism replace traditional journalism?“ I recently came across an article that gives a great example of why the answer is “yes.” Roland Legrand, a multimedia newsroom manager for Belgian publisher Mediafin, wrote a great piece for PBS.org’s Mediashift, detailing a newspaper’s role in bringing a […]
Happy Holidays–Social Media Style, Of Course
Looking for a way to create e-cards then share them online? Smilebox lets you create cards–complete with photos, music and/or video–then post to your blog or your Facebook page. If only they had a Twitter application, it would be perfect. You can create and share cards for free (preceeded by a short ad) or pay […]