Don’t get too excited about Time.com’s triumphant headline “Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top” unless you know of a way to freeze your age at 29 and are willing to forsake marriage and kids. Forever. First they say that according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 […]
What Free Costs Me
This post isn’t just about me, but about the royal “me” as in us. Plus it rhymed. But it is about free, and what free for companies costs those of us doing the free contributing. What inspired this post was two things: yesterday’s association Twitter chat (#assnchat) and a tweet by SmartBrief. The topic of […]
Why I Will Never, Ever Use Facebook Places
It’s simple: because I hate how much of my life Facebook already owns and has control over. Facebook is now worth $33 BILLION–all because chumps like me are willing to share their lives with the world and Facebook gets to sell us out. Why the hell am I going to give them one more piece […]
Use of Social Media by Older Adults Doubles
According to a newly-released study by Pew Internet Research, social media use among internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled in the past year: from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%–from 13% to 26%. You can read […]
Social Media Success is More Than Skin Deep
Augie Ray from Forrester wrote an awesome post about the difference between social media success and social media marketing success. He makes the great example of three retailers whose stores he recently visited, two of which were horribly staffed and maintained–yet those same two stores boast “successful” social media campaigns. Social media marketing-wise they’re doing […]