I love it when I can use the word “atwitter” in a blog post. So it’s my lucky day because my inbox and twitterstream are both atwitter about Twitter’s rumored new business model: charging companies for commercial use. Simple enough, right? I mean, if Twitter is now a mainstay of corporate communications–garnering all kinds of […]
Why The “Only Young People Use Social Media” Excuse Won’t Work Anymore
If you read this blog you know one thing I blog about regularly is the fact that more and more “old” people are using social media every day. Here are two more logs to throw on that fire: The biggest increase in online participation since 2005 is in the 70+ age group The fastest growing […]
Which Is It: Quantity Or Quality?
Social media goddess, Charlene Li, recently made some social media predictions for 2009. Here’s one of them: Exclusivity trumps accessibility. Having thousands of friends becomes “so 2008” and defriending becomes the hot new trend, driven by overwhelming rivers of newsfeeds. The movement is rooted in a desire to have quality, not quantity, as people cocoon […]
The Real Reason I Love Social Media
In 140 characters or fewer, this is why I love social media: @themediaishirin Helping laid off media employees find new work 140 characters at a time. Email us at mediaishiring@gmail.com Reasons why this is awesome: 1) A 140 character resume as a serious way to find a new job? Hells yeah. You can’t get more […]
MySpace Is Going Down
The signs are there: Facebook is slowly but surely overtaking MySpace and it’s only a matter of time until MySpace goes the way of Friendster. While some claim that Friendster isn’t dead yet and shouldn’t be written off, the signs seem pretty clear to me that, at least in the US, Friendster isn’t even on […]