Death and grieving in the social world
We’ve had two different people we know die in the past few months. One in a car accident and the other from an unexpected, fast-moving infection. In both cases, the news of the deaths and the response...
View ArticleFour Score and Seven Tweets Ago: How social media is rewriting the history books
News of Whitney Houston’s death rocked the World, but it wasn’t written by an Associated Press journalist. The assassination of Osama Bin Laden hit the headlines, but it didn’t break through Reuters....
View ArticleAfter the election, social media makeup day?
We’ve concluded another American election and selected Barak Obama as our President for four more years. It wasn’t close enough to end up court and the losing candidate graciously conceded. If the men...
View ArticleTwitter’s Vine is a marketer’s late Christmas gift
Twitter has just launched Vine, a way for users to capture short 6 second bursts of video and share it with the World and their followers. But it’s also a chance for marketing departments and agencies...
View ArticleThe HMV Firings: Twitter is the pulse of the planet but must be controlled
Once again Twitter proved its title as the ‘pulse of the planet’ when British entertainment retailer HMV employees took control of the official @hmvtweets Twitter account and livetweeted what they...
View ArticleSocial media teams nap during their Oreo moments
This week alone there were two incidents of major brand Twitter accounts being hacked and taken over by a faction of the hacker group, Anonymous. Both Burger King and Jeep were caught out by lax...
View ArticleWhy the #hashtag obsession will die out quickly now
So I had a quick Twitter convo this morning about hashtags with @smartco and @benjaminellis and it got me thinking about whether we really need them. #OnceUseful To me, hashtags were useful at the...
View ArticleTwitter shows us the good and bad of crowdsourcing the news
If you were glued to your Twitter updates last Monday through Friday, you were probably more aware of what was happening in Boston than most law enforcement on the scene and certainly more than CNN....
View ArticleTwitter: you’ve come a long way, Baby
Ah, Twitter. You and I have had an interesting relationship over the years. More than once, I tried to start using you only to find your streams of information hard to follow and distracting at the...
View ArticleTwitter testing Nearby as an awesome advertising tool
The Wall Street Journal blog today reported that Twitter is testing a service called Nearby that will allow users to share location. Time magazine described it this way: “Nearby” includes a map on the...
View Article
