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When a “Social Media Expert” Gets it Wrong

5. February 2010

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I uncovered this article in Forbes by Mike Schaffner, a blogger and director of information technology for The Valve and Measurement Group of Cameron in Houston.  His article is entitled “The Death of Social Media.”  In it, he moans: “Many of the people that I get as followers on Twitter seem to offer nothing more [...]

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Dear Madlibs: A Modest (free) Proposal

25. March 2009

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Today is my one-year anniversary on Twitter! Yay! BT (before Twitter) I had been engaged in what has come to be known as “social media” through blogs and discussion groups for several years. I hand-coded my first blog (now defunct) in 2002, really before there was any server-side software for it – even before [...]

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Twitter: Tweeting Brain Surgery? Endless Possibilities

23. March 2009

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Here’s a video link about a team of neurosurgeons that did a play-by-play, conversational brain surgery using Twitter and YouTube.  It was followed live by about 1900 Twitter members.   We have barely scratched the surface regarding the possibilities that come with the expansion of social media tools. What else might we find and use in following [...]

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Is Twitter Perfect? Show Me ANY Service That Is Perfect!

21. March 2009

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Yes, it appears Twitter had an outage last night.  And it was duly reported by Robin Wauters at Techcrunch, which is all well and good, but I have to take issue with her final update on the situation after it had been resolved. Twitter’s Constant Stream Of Update Messages Suddenly Grinds To A Halt Lucky for Twitter [...]

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Twitter is Here to Stay

17. March 2009

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Just a quick note today: Steve Rubel, who is normally pretty savvy about these things, comes out today and says: “So you heard it here first, folks. Twitter is peaking. Now I believe Twitter can get through “the dip” that stares them in the face, but it will need to adapt by: keeping its core users intact, [...]

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