I admit it–I’m obsessed with the movie Jurrassic Park. I’m loving that I’m not the only one who has managed to weave it into a blog post recently: My post about Groundswell and Jurrassic Park Maddie Grant’s post, Cluetrain-Plus-Ten: On Social Media Policies Scott Brinker’s post about marketing automation and Jurassic Park Hey–does this qualify […]
Is Social Media A Good Career Choice If You’re Old?
As far as I’m concerned, there are four–not two–absolutes in life: death, taxes, looks matter and age matters. Ok, so maybe looks are not exactly on par with death, but it’s a scientific fact that the better looking you are, the more successful you’ll be in life. I will spare you (and me) the drudgery […]
Social Media Foot-Draggers: It’s Time to Get Over It
Social media holdouts are triumphantly circulating Nielsen Online’s recent report that more than 60% of new Twitter users stop using the service within a month. I can just see them waiting to stick the fork in Twitter and all the other social media tools with a final “I told you so,” putting the whole issue […]
If Twitter Wasn’t Mainstream Before, It Will Be After 4pm Today
I started writing a post yesterday about Ashton Kutcher and CNN’s contest to get to a million followers but didn’t get to finish. My point was going to be how I know it’s pathetic to get worked up over something as stupid as the commercialization of Twitter–but that it did offend my nerd sensibilities. As […]
Social Media Salaries
About 6 months ago I posed the question “Social Media Manager: What’s It Worth To Your Association?” At that point, I wasn’t able to find any data about social media salaries at associations; at this point, I still am not really able to. More on that in a minute, though. In addition to what I […]
Twitter Me This: Why Is Twitter’s Popularity Surprising?
So today’s Washington Post has yet another article about how stupid Twitter is, this time in the context of sports. Ok, ok–we get it–Twitter is stupid. Who the hell cares about what you or I had for breakfast, or that we’re stuck in traffic, or how we were walking down the street and suddenly a […]
Infidelity 2.0
Pre-internet, finding ways to cheat on your spouse were limited–you either worked with the person, lived near the person, or were already in some way connected to the person (à la your husband’s best friend or something along those lines). Then came the internet–suddenly the pool of potential cheating partners got a lot larger. It […]
Mystery of the Missing Public Profile Page Updates Solved
When Facebook changed its Terms of Service in February, you would have thought the sky had fallen–angry rants and news reports about Facebook stealing the rights to people’s data were all over the place. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg quickly rescinded the new terms and made a big to-do about how Facebook is a democracy and […]
How Much Authority Can $9.99 Buy?
A few days ago, on the heels of reading a post about the concept of authority in the world of social media–basically how popularity equals authority–I read another post about Facebook NetworkedBlogs. It launched in June of 2008 but this was the first time I’d read about it. It seemed like a good way to […]
Brands on Twitter—Are They There For You or For Themselves?
First there was Comcastcares. (Ok, they were not actually first but it was the first example that came to my mind. Zappos is another notable example, but for whatever reason I thought of Comcast first. Sorry Zappos.) Frank Eliason, Comcast’s “director of digital care”– who Business Week dubbed as “the most famous customer service manager […]