Beth Kanter had a great post today about how much time it takes to do social media. I started to post a comment but ended up typing WAY too much, so I figured I’d just blog about it. Beth suggests five modules for implementing a social media plan: listening, participating, generating buzz, sharing your story […]
Think Nobody’s Reading Your Facebook Status Updates? Think Again.
Nothing like reading an article like this one to make you realize that Big Brother is, indeed, watching your every move online. News correspondent Olivier Knox was researching a piece about the economic rescue package and paused to update his status on Facebook: “Olivier just counted, and President Bush has pushed the bailout in 12 […]
Would you let Twittad pimp your Twitter profile for cash?
Twittad is a new service that, as described on their website “gives Twitter users and advertisers the opportunity to meet for product placement & website promotion on a Twitter user profile.” Sounds warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? Then you go to the “How Twittad Works” page and the first thing you read is “Post Twitter […]
Survey Says…25% of Twitterers are Old and White
Ok, not an actual survey–my own bootleg analysis based on cross-referencing my favorite book of the moment, Stuff White People Like, and this article in Time magazine about Gen-X being aTwitter. According to the author of the Time article, Bill Tancer (author of Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters), Twitter’s largest age […]
A Vote for Plurk
The other day I blogged about Plurk‘s eminent rise as Twitter continues to disappoint with its constant “over capacity” messages and general unreliability. This morning I read this post that sings Plurk’s praises. I must be slow or something because Plurk just doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I’m just not a visual person–I swear […]
When the Whale Fails Will Plurk Prevail?
A few months ago I didn’t know what Twitter was; or, more specifically, I knew what it was but couldn’t imagine what purpose it could possibly serve. Now some months and who knows how many posts later I–and the rest of the world it seems–am hooked. First there were a trickle of blog posts about […]
What do Jurassic Park and Groundswell have in Common?
Have you seen Jurassic Park? If so, you might remember Dr. Malcolm’s (Jeff Goldblum) diatribe about the dangers of doing something just because you can: “I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took […]
I Need a Second Firstlife
The other day, in a moment of frustration about the increasing amount of time it’s taking to maintain my “secondlife,” I twittered (I refuse to say “tweeted”): “I need a second first life to keep up with my second life.” If anyone actually followed me on Twitter I’m sure I would have gotten a lot […]
Updates
Looooong time no write–I should just have a background soundtrack of crickets chirping in here on the very off chance anyone is actually reading. I have a new job, my two other blogs, a pinched ulnar nerve which is making half my right hand numb and therefore makes it suck to type–and so on–therefore it’s […]
Twitter–Take 5
Actually, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve blogged about Twitter recently; suffice it to say that I’m sure it’s enough to bore you. However, today’s Twitter blog posts–as usual, dumped in my inbox via some marketing newsletter or another–actually had some relevance to the business world. I can’t say I personally see […]