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Slapped! Facebook Blocks Me For 14 Days
I am seeking re-election to the Newburyport city council and actively sending Facebook messages to people who live in my town to 1) introduce myself and 2) inquire if they would like to be my friend. Yesterday I sent nearly 80 friend requests...3 Blogs That Remain Missed
How Tools Measure Your Internet Life
Out of 1,229,954 global brand websites analyzed in areas including number of incoming links, mobile device support, location tags, accessibility standards, daily mentions on Twitter, developer plugins used, and dozens of other variables,...How Glympse Can Track Your Friends
If you understand why locational-based social networking sites, such as FourSquare, GoWalla, and Facebook Places are prone to cause paranoia and privacy concerns among its users, and if you comprehend the usefulness of sharing where you are to...Stop Producing Noise
If you sense a theme between recent articles about unfriending your Facebook friends and reducing your Twitter broadcasts, you are correct that the common denominator is noise. We are spending too much time producing and consuming noise. Both...17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog
Plug photo by Adam Mulligan on Flickr One of the neat aspects about WordPress is nobody owns it. The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what...Why You Must Appreciate Facebook Mobile
With 500 million (and counting) people in the world with Facebook accounts, you need to grasp its importance if you want to succeed as an organization harnessing the power of the web. Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, iTunes — they have their purposes and...Why Facebook Breeds Voyeurism
Rachel Jonat recently shared why she quit Facebook, extracting in part: I want more from my friends than status updates. I want to give my friends more than status updates. If this person isn’t significant enough in my life for a birthday...What If a Country Tweeted?
Is Social Media Dangerous for Your Brain?
Baroness Greenfield, director of Oxford's Institute for the Future of the Mind, wrote an op-ed earlier this year. She argued the computer screen is disruptive to cognitive development. [S]tudents are losing the ability to study properly....Inactivity Matters: 83 Percent of Online Friends are Fakes
It is no secret that 17% of Twitter users post updates weekly. When you add in spammers and broadcasters who may tweet a lot but are frequently blocked for their nonexistent interactive rate, I'll argue the number of active users is much...Does Twitter Breed Narcissism?
I confess my eyes light up when I see a new blog comment or receive a new email, tweet, or Facebook message. I usually click their web link or look them up on LinkedIn to see who they are. I get giddy when someone thanks me, or asks a question...Why Simple Words Work Best
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The next time you visit your Facebook home page, you will be asked to review and update your privacy settings. This may occur today or over the next week, but the fact remains Facebook's 350 million users will be required to do it. Ruchi Sanghvi...Are Restaurant Managers Monitoring the Web?
I posted the following review of the Apollo Restaurant in Boston a few hours ago on Yelp, a peer-review website enabling anyone to post candid reviews of any storefront or office, though mainly restaurants and bars. Not just good vs bad, but why...Thinking About Government Communications
In his latest blog post about social media buzzwords your mother should know, Laurent Francois defines social media, itself, as people talking to people once they've logged in. Simple. Our ancestors are familiar with interpersonal communication via...Introducing Governing People
If SocialMediaToday is an online community for the web's best thinkers on social media and Web 2.0, Governing People is for advocates of smart, efficient, and transparent government--and Government 2.0.The sister communities--with My Venture Pad,...3 Steps to Attract Fans to Your Facebook Page
Note: I don't refer to profiles nor groups. See the breakdown here.Scenario: You followed the official steps and created a Facebook page for yourself or your business. If you scan through popular pages with tens of thousands (or more) fans, ranging...Social Media for Government: Coming to Chicago
In response to the positive feedback from my March 2009 workshop in Washington, D.C. on the importance of government agencies to run measurement benchmarks and analytics before launching social media campaigns, Andrew Krzmarzick and I are tag...Is Twitter Stupid?
Steve Huff of the American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites provides evidence that Twitter is stupid relating a trending series of Twitter messages last week about an Idaho girl abducted. As people retweeted each other's messages about an Amber...
Jonathan Salem Baskin is an author who writes a regular column on Advertising Age & posts on his award-winning blog. More »
John Bell heads up the 360° Digital Influence team & teaches graduate studies in Digital Influence at Johns Hopkins University. More »
Don Bulmer is Vice President of Communication Strategy at Royal Dutch Shell More »
John Byrne is chairman & editor-in-chief of C-Change Media Inc. & the author or co-author of eight books. More »
Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is the founder and chief executive officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc. More »
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks & has been creating successful online communities for over 15 years. More »
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group & was named one of the Top 100 Marketers in Marketing Magazine. More »
Laurent Francois I lead the marketing&development hub @ Express Roularta Services, a media company. I focus on 2 main brands (L'Express, More »
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable & a blogger at The Social Organization. More »
JD Lasica is a consultant who is considered one of the leading authorities on social media & user-created media. More »
Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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“I would compare Facebook Like-Gates to capturing email and other contact information by offering ebooks and whitepapers. Without these, you'd be providing great content but that doesn't mean that everybody would go out of their way to dish out their contact details. It's a way to incentivize content providers to continue to generate great articles, inforgraphics and videos. And unliking a page is ...”
“Nonverbal communication is as important as our verbal or written messages. And how we appear in photographs on the web-- and specifically on Linkedin--can be critically important to our personal brands and our messages. The research you cite about warm and cold impressions is critical to how we are perceived. Thanks for the insightful post, Victoria, and I'm looking forward to the future posts. ...”