Twitter’s Secret Manual - Mashable’s Guide to Twitter
June 30, 2009 :: Steve FisherAs most of you know I use Twitter for a few things but I am not very prolific on it and that is not because I don’t have things to say, it just comes down to time and deciding which conversations to join into.
“Twitter, despite its many extraordinary uses, can be a bit of a [...]
Maintaining Relationships With Pokes, Pings, Winks, Drive-bys and Twitter
June 29, 2009 :: Joe LoongBack when I worked for a big company on a sprawling campus, I used to make it a point to stop by the offices (well, usually cubicles) of friends and other people with whom I’d worked before.
I almost never pre-scheduled these little drive-bys in advance, instead just relying on a simple calculus: I’d stick my [...]
Social Broadcasting: Where You Are vs. Where You Aren’t
June 26, 2009 :: Joe LoongI’d like to revisit the implications of socially-broadcasting your location and status. Previously, I looked at social broadcasting from a security perspective — namely, the notion that by telling people where you are, you’re also telling people where you aren’t, which could open you up to shenanigans by ne’er-do-wells, or even crime (as in the [...]
Social Media and Major (and Minor) Movements
June 23, 2009 :: Joe LoongOriginally, this was going to be an entry about some examples of people using social media to mobilize people into action around causes. The examples I was going to go with were two DC-specific things of admittedly minor importance. The first was the cancellation (due to lack of sponsorship) of a popular free outdoor summer [...]
Spam and the Tyranny of Twitter Trending Topics
June 19, 2009 :: Joe LoongIn my earlier entry recapping the BlogPotomac conference, I mentioned that the #blogpotomac hashtag made the list of Twitter trending topics — it’s featured in the sidebar on the Twitter home page, and is consequently viewed by a boatload of people.
Naturally, because of all the eyeballs, it’s seen as valuable real estate, and it’s an [...]
Twitter-cabulary
June 19, 2009 :: Kenneth YeungAre you aware of the growing popularity of Twitter? It’s usage by people in all types of businesses find themselves using the microblogging application for all sorts of uses. But what I’ve come to find out is that there’s a whole new vocabulary that needs to be learned in order to fully take advantage of [...]
5 Ways to Kick Off Your Social Media Outreach Activities
June 18, 2009 :: Steve FisherThis blog covers many topics regarding running your business online and we talk about social media quite a bit. However, I don’t think we have really provided you with some basics to get started if you are trying to make sense of all the tools out there. Sure, we have covered Twitter and the Twitterverse [...]
Social Media Tools for Restaurants
June 9, 2009 :: Steve FisherIn all honesty, Shashi should be writing this post since our Social Media Swami used to be an Executive Chef that worked all over the world, but you have me a guy that by all views of photos in the last few years, loves food. What I can offer you is my passion for social [...]
Please Burglarize My House: Personal OPSEC and Social Broadcasting
June 9, 2009 :: Joe LoongIn a previous blog life, I envisioned a scenario where cyber-savvy criminals simply did a blog search for the phrase “going on vacation” to target houses to burglarize. Given that people routinely post details about where they live, their whereabouts at any given time, what kind of stuff they own, and who they live with [...]
Microblogging and Microrage
June 8, 2009 :: Joe LoongMaybe it’s due to the heavy rains we’ve had this month, but I’ve been thinking about how socially-transmitted anger, self-righteousness and outrage have gotten to be like cloudbursts: They’re characterized by short periods of intense activity that flare, flood and fade quickly from public consciousness. On the individual level, the issue might culminate in someone [...]
