#Cluetrain Derailed!
The Cluetrain is derailed. Last Spring Adage pronounced that “There is no more social media marketing: just advertising.” The article announced a new era of #NotReallySocialMediaMarketing and went on...
View ArticleAre you living on #Facebook?
Yesterday (August 26) at 6:45 Alison Parker, a young newspaper reporter at WDBJ, and Adam Ward, a camera person, for the Virginia TV station were tragically murdered by a former employee of the...
View Article5 years of blogging and 4 years of tweets!
I missed two big anniversaries back in March: I have been blogging for 5 years and Tweeting for 4 ! My 21,272 tweets, assuming 23 words per tweets, would total 489,256 words: the equivalent of 5 books...
View ArticleTwitter Parody: Comic, Creepy, or Criminal?
Comic, Creepy or Criminal (Storify Link) It seems that WordPress.org has a storify plug-in but WordPress.com doesn’t, so I again go with just inserting the link… Tagged: are parody accounts creepy,...
View ArticleIs Facebook about to be DISRUPTED?
The Wall Street Journal had an article about the growth of messaging apps and how their use threatened both Facebook and the mobile providers. Users spending hours a day messaging with friends are not...
View ArticleDoes Facebook CAUSE narcissism?
… or are narcissists just drawn to social media? I started asking this question on Twitter a couple weeks ago, in order to gather some ideas and thoughts from my online friends for this post. Most of...
View ArticleCan One Billion Facebook Users be wrong?
According to Wikipedia (note: don’t cite in my classes!) as of early summer the social platforms had the following number of users: Facebook 955 million (certainly 1 B by now) Twitter...
View ArticleTweeting for 3 years!
On Saturday I received a friendly mention from @TwBirthday, saying “@ProfessorGary Happy 3rd TwBirthday! You’ve been around since 18 March 2009!” I took a quick look at my statistics – over 12,000...
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