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Category: Social Media
So blogs aren’t used for journalistic means?
I just finished reading Naked Conversations by Shel Isreal and Robert Scoble and I felt it was quite informative and showed how the power of the blog can influence the way business is done. Journalists are taking advantage of this media and it’s become quite a powerful tool for spreading the news and keeping in […]
A marketer’s take on social networking’s mortality rate
In a recent post on the Social Times, Nick O’Neill, a social media newshound (and who seems to be right up there with Mashable, TechCrunch, and Read/Write/Web in reporting great bits of news), has written that social networking sites will be “dead in two years“. That’s an interesting observation, but I think it’s going to take […]
A major shift in the search engine monopoly appears to be brewing
Apparently as first reported on Robert Scoble’s blog and repeated on Truemors.com (run by Guy Kawasaki), it appears that Microsoft’s new “alternative” strategy in working with Yahoo will wind up greatly decreasing Yahoo’s status as a search engine powerhouse and help elevate Microsoft’s search status to rival that of Google. Surely while software development company […]
I’m a little verklempt. SocialDevCamp was neither about development or camping. Discuss.
So I’m back from a pretty awesome time at SocialDevCamp East at the University of Baltimore. I think it was pretty well organized and had a great turnout – over 100 attendees that gathered to learn all about what issues are surrounding the social web. The issues were thought-provoking and I managed to get some […]
Break Time at SocialDevCamp East
So I’ve spent nearly several hours here at SocialDevCamp East at the University of Baltimore and I must say that I’m quite impressed with what’s been going on. Thank you to the organizers (David Troy, Ann Bernard, Keith Casey, and anyone else I forgot) for arranging cool sessions. I think that I’ve got some good […]
Video commenting on blogs: Wave of the Future?
In the past couple of months, there have been several big developments on video blogging. Perhaps most important is that two big applications have offered their services to allow people to post comments on blog posts. But not just any comment…these are video comments (I’ll wait for the “oohs” and “ahhs”). The two that I […]
Mission: Impossible? How can UPS use social media to its advantage?
Yesterday, Ann Bernard (social media guru from WhyGoSolo – which is a site you must check out, by the way) posted on Twitter about her encounters with UPS and how she noticed on her receipt a message from UPS, which got me thinking about UPS’s perdicament. What exactly was the message that appeared on the receipt? […]
Customer care bullying no more
The Internet has truly become a great customer advocate over the years and while businesses are trying to take advantage of it to control their message and sometimes provide damage control. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell that to upper management and the folks at customer care. With companies trying to cut down on costs, chances […]
Amazingly WordPress is NOT perfect
WordPress recently released its latest version of its blogging software. I recently downloaded Version 2.5 and added it to both of my blogs: TheLetterTwo.com and CornerofWhatever.com. With previous iterations of WordPress (or WP for short), I’ve never had any problem “upgrading”. I simply downloaded the .zip file, unzip it and upload the files to my […]
Learning the ropes at Tech Cocktail DC
Tech Cocktail DC last night was tons of fun and I found myself networking with some great people. I met up with Shashi Bellamkonda again and finally got to meet Mashable’s own Adam Ostrow. It was pretty cool finally meeting these people and talking to them as opposed to just simply viewing Twitter updates. I […]
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