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When a “Social Media Expert” Gets it Wrong
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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25. March 2009
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 [...]
Read the rest of this post...Is Twitter Perfect? Show Me ANY Service That Is Perfect!
21. March 2009
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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11. August 2008
Here’s something that might have gone without saying, and probably goes without saying too often at sites frequented by people who live immersed in all this tech stuff. After having several conversations in recent days with people I see as being in my target audience, I now know it needs to be said: Firefox is [...]
Read the rest of this post...Ten Great Lists for the Social Media Aware
8. August 2008
I’ve noticed a trend in blog post titles. It seems the world of Social Media Practitioners is in love with lists. Heck, I’m in love with lists! One of the tools I use to help me glean what’s next now is the gigantic, ever-changing popularity list at popurls. As I write this, four of the [...]
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