For a site that just a few years ago was exclusively the domain of college students, Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth to the point where it now counts 300 million users as members – roughly the population of the United States. Even better for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, investors, and potential future shareholders, the world’s [...]
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Update: Facebook is popular. Like 300 million users popular.
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Social Networking. 2 CommentsOlder users responsible for Twitter’s growth
Published by August 26th, 2009 in Social Media, Social Networking and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsTwitter has experienced phenomenal growth over the last couple of years. Unlike many social media sites, however Twitter’s growth hasn’t been driven by the youth – it’s us old people that are signing up in droves.
“The traditional early-adopter model would say that teenagers or college students are really important to adoption,” said Andrew Lipsman, director [...]
Tools to help monitor your brand online
Published by December 27th, 2008 in Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsOne of the first baby steps many organizations take into social media is monitoring for their brand online. In many cases, once they learn what people are saying about them, they take a big interest in becoming part of the conversation.
When you’re new to the social media scene, the number of sites you need to [...]
Do we need a new way to “spray thoughts across the web?”
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsToday Six Apart announced the release of its “Blog It” application for Facebook, which allows you write a post within Facebook and then broadcast it to up to ten different blog and mini-blog services. And the more that I think about it, this just seems a bit like backwards thinking. If we lived in an [...]
Did you delete your MySpace profile today?
Published by January 30th, 2008 in Social Networking, Sports PR, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsI’m routinely met with a barrage of e-mails from fake MySpace profiles requesting I add them as friends. These profiles are usually fronts for “camgirl” operations that are – ahem – “less than work safe” – and yet they continue to exist on MySpace. Things that also exist on MySpace: ugly layouts, pages that crash [...]
Creating a personal home page as a digital hub?
Published by July 10th, 2007 in Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsThese days I’m finding my attention is split up among so many various Web services that blogging is simply losing out. Not that I don’t love writing, of course, but these days when I find an interesting piece of information worth calling out I’m more likely to share it through Google Reader, post it to [...]
MySpace profiles can lead to trouble, but this is ridiculous
Published by May 2nd, 2007 in Education, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Workplace. 0 CommentsPoor Stacy Snyder. As a Millersville University student, she was nearly within reach of receiving her teaching certificate before it was denied by the school’s administration. The problem is a common one: They were offended by her MySpace profile. MySpace users, for some reason, are notorious for posting photos of themselves engaged in quasi-legal/ethical behavior [...]
Are you (or your clients) ready to give up control?
Published by April 29th, 2007 in PR Practice, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networking, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 2 CommentsAs clients begin to learn more about social media, they’re going to want to learn more about how they can implement technologies like blogs, podcasts and social networks in their PR and marketing plans. The biggest stumbling block, of course, is controlling the message. When a company issues a press release, it’s all there in [...]
There’s a chance to slip up around every corner
Published by April 17th, 2007 in New Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsA world where reputations are destroyed with a slip of the tongue is a very perilous world, indeed. Twenty years ago one could make a remark in bad taste on television, or the radio or even in print and chances are, unless it was remarkably offensive, it would go largely unnoticed. Even then, the opportunity [...]
Social Media 2007 in Chicago
Published by February 22nd, 2007 in Education, Podcasting, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsIs anybody else going to this? If you’re coming in from out of town, drop me a line. I’d be happy to grab a post-conference bite or drink and talk shop.
