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 [...]
Jay Berkowitz clearly defines Web 2010
June 5, 2009 :: Steve FisherIt is funny. As I get ready to do a write up on a great event this week I find that there is an online “blog fight” about Web 3.0 vs 2010 Web vs whatever. This past Monday was a great event called SocStardom #3 hosted by Maya Ruiz-McPherson that hosted Jay Berkowitz of “Ten Golden Rules of Marketing” fame. He is CEO of TenGoldenRules.com and gave us a preview of his presentation called “Web 2010″.
2009 Social Media Predictions – Six Months So Far…
June 4, 2009 :: Steve FisherDuring this sweep of bookmarks I was cleaning out my blog reader with all kinds of clippings and folders for use later. I came across the article for 2009 Social Media Predictions that Peter Kim did at the beginning of this year. While we made our own attempt at predictions, I thought I would look and see how things were coming along six months into the year.
Suffering From Twitter Fatigue (Post-Twitter Stress Disorder)
June 1, 2009 :: Joe LoongI seem to be experiencing Twitter Fatigue (judging by the search results, it’s a term I can’t even pretend to have coined). It’s not so much the constant talking about Twitter, or even the hearing about it. It’s more like the actual using of it. But not the part where I broadcast to my legion [...]
