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Communications Nightmare

Communications Nightmare

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I noticed the other day that rather than becoming easier, corporate communications have become significantly harder. The dream has always been one universal way to contact people and share information that allows everyone who needs it to get it, while maintaining corporate security.  Instead of creating this, we’ve ended up with a Tower of Babel in which we are forced to seek out and actively watch numerous applications. For example, on any given day these sites/apps/programs for Corporate Communications The…

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Adventures in Comment Moderation – How to be “That Guy” on Facebook

Adventures in Comment Moderation – How to be “That Guy” on Facebook

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Most of us never even realize it, but Facebook allows us to moderate the comments that show up against our posts.  In the base usage, it is very important as it allows you to remove the comments your college roommate posted containing links to the pics of you doing belly shots off an Asian hooker in Vegas last week when your boss thought you were home sick. The problem is that it makes us all Online Community Moderators, and even…

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The Illusion of Privacy

The Illusion of Privacy

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The launch of Google Buzz this week has once again brought questions of privacy and social networking applications to the forefront.  Just as many of us have questioned over the past few years the repeated failure of Facebook to respect our privacy. To my mind, this is a very simple thing: never post anything to any networking service that you wouldn’t want to see again.  Ever… People have lost jobs over what they have posted on Facebook and elsewhere.  I…

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The Day Social Media Went Mainstream – Google Buzz

The Day Social Media Went Mainstream – Google Buzz

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Google decided that I was ready for Google Buzz this morning, and it magically appeared in my email console.  If you haven’t heard of it, watch this video: On first take, when viewed inside of gmail, Google buzz seems to be a real yawn.  Just another place where you need to update statuses to keep in touch with folks. Exactly what I’ve been warning would become the death of social media, the great diaspora wherein we all end up on…

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Geo Location Services and the Coming War for Our Whereabouts

Geo Location Services and the Coming War for Our Whereabouts

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Over the past few months I’ve been messing with Foursquare…the geo location service-based social network-game.  Frequent readers will possibly remember that I’m not a really big fan of sharing geo location information, even though I’m perhaps one of the few who has directly had his life saved by cell phone geolocation. Foursquare is an interesting study.  By turning the geo location service into a game and allowing the most frequent visitors to locations to earn the title of  “Mayor” of…

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DeLurker Day!

DeLurker Day!

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Today is DeLurker Day, the day in which bloggers like myself celebrate our readers by offering you an invitation to leave a comment.  I know there are a lot of you out there that read this blog almost daily, but as you know, there aren’t always a lot of comments.  Take the time and let us know who you are and what you like, don’t like and what you’d like to see here or in the world in general, in…

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The Real Currency of Social Media

The Real Currency of Social Media

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“It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!” Soylent Green – 1973 So what is the real commodity of social media?  It’s people.  You and me, and all our friends.  Period. Over the past few weeks, this as really started to steam roller.  Let’s take a look at a few examples: Fake Steve Jobs…

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Social Networking for Tween Girls

Social Networking for Tween Girls

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It was utterly inevitable…via CruchGear and Matt Brodeur: So this seems like a good enough idea. It’s called MySecretCircle and it’s basically it’s a closed social network for girls. You and your buds buy a USB key that acts as your login. It autoruns under Windows and OS X and brings up a photo and journal sharing system that only allows certain people access to your daughter’s personal info. In theory and in practice this is great. It ensures your tween…

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Does Twitter Dilute Media Brands?

Does Twitter Dilute Media Brands?

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For the past couple weeks I’ve been tweeting for the Reel-Time.com site under the Twitter handle “Reel_Time” and I’ve found some very interesting trends.  Most disturbing is that Twitter doesn’t really appear to be an extension of the conversations that start on my site, it appears to be something wholly different.  Similar conversations in a place where I don’t get any ad revenue. As of yet, I’m not seeing this as increasing the value of the Reel-time.com brand.  Of course,…

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Twitter, Hashtags, Baseball and a Dose of Spam

Twitter, Hashtags, Baseball and a Dose of Spam

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For about a year, I’ve been using twitter and hashtags to tweet with fellow Red Sox fans about our favorite topic, the Red Sox.  Over that time, I’ve seen a big change how it works. First, a definition from Twitter Wiki: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. When…

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