Jobs Loss for Social Media

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The recent death of Steve Jobs reminds us that, while he didn’t have a direct impact on current social media, Jobs did help create the environment for social media to flourish. With products like iTunes and the rise of podcasts in the early 2000’s, Apple put an emphasis on sharing and creating … [Read more...]

Google+ for Everyone!

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Google+ has finally released its stronghold on exclusivity. For the first few months of the social networks life, it has been an exclusive club. The world was divided between the invited and the non-invites. Well, the world for people who cared. The invite only policy did create some buzz … [Read more...]

Places is Dead. Long Live Foursquare

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Facebook tried and failed in gaining market share in the geolocating social networking. But the people have spoken and no one is using Facebook Places. In the next round of updates to the mobile app, Facebook will be eliminating the location check in feature. Roughly only 6% of the Facebook … [Read more...]

Retweet Becomes Proper English

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The Oxford dictionary has added the word "retweet" to the English dictionary. For those of us addicted to Twitter, we are very familiar with this term and use it frequently as well as its acronym RT. Apparently retweet has become active enough in the casual lexicon to warrant dictionary … [Read more...]

Whatever you do don’t do this! …on Social Media

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Trust is an essential part of being a social media manager. In fact, it is cornerstone. When you are managing people's social media, you are doing more than just tweeting or posting on Facebook. You are acting as their voice, their persona. You are representing them to the online world. This is not … [Read more...]

Will Google+ Cross the Chasm?

Technology Curve: Crossing the Chasm

The Google+ button is everywhere. Reports are saying it is more wide spread than the twitter button. Google just sped up the button by 3 times, so now it will load even faster on all those websites.  But with all these great reports about Google+, is it really holding up? Many have questioned if … [Read more...]

The Serendipitous Nature of Social Media

How did we connect with people around the globe before the creation of social media networks? Perhaps all the technological advances today have a lot to do with the struggling airline industry. People don't have to hop a plane to meet business prospects or get deals done. The Internet has … [Read more...]

Social Media: the Spark of Revolution?

Social media is no longer limited to status updates and posting photos from a friend’s birthday party. Social media has quickly become one of the most influential factors in grassroots socio-political mobilization across the globe. The January 25 revolution in Egypt gained a major foothold with … [Read more...]

Social Media Responds to Japan

The devastation in Japan is beyond comprehension. While electricity and phone service have been hugely affected, leaving many survivors without either, the Internet has remained virtually unaffected. This makes social media not just an effective means of communication, but one of the only … [Read more...]