In the grand scheme of things I am but a babe when it comes to social media. A rookie. A noob, if you will, though to spare my fragile feelings I’d just as soon you didn’t, really. Nope, no expert opinions here folks, just me stumbling along, trying to learn what I can. Like some […]
Social Media: Expertise? Not Required. Sanity is Optional. Read More »
credit: AFP I’d like to thank you all for your patience through the times that this site has been quiet. Many of the original authors have gone on and are quite busy, but I didn’t see why that had to be the end of our community. After about 2 years of reflection, we’ve seen where
Collective Thoughts is Back! Read More »
Humans think they’re such hot stuff. Them and their opposable thumbs. I’ll have you know that us felines are really the strength behind Twitter. Don’t believe me? Apparently the San Diego News Network does:
Social Media is Not Dead. It’s Run by Cats. Read More »
Although I have had these thoughts about this many times before, I never placed pen to paper to convey my thoughts. I began this version of this post while sitting outside of Laidoffcamp/Freelancecamp in Miami. I was watching the afternoon monsoons about to come down on me. I was sitting alone in a garden of hedges and walkways watching the passersby. Everyone seemed to be busy buzzing by. The cool breeze just washed in from the approaching rain. I can feel the electricity in the air. The energy created by everyone that attends social gathering of large magnitude is incredible. The energy feels like the change in the air as a storm rolls in. I also have a sad disturbing feeling of what is about to happen.
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What is a #blogchat? The idea of group learning has fascinated me since high school when I realized how much faster and better I could prepare for a test if I studied with friends. Maybe that’s why when I happened upon the first Plurkshop last spring, I was hooked. And then when I heard Mack
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“I think women put more emphasis, focus and time into their social media browsing than men. Men seem to be very ADHD with social media, jumping from news story to story, whereas I’ve noticed women take slow time and incorporate what they read more into their daily life and lifestyle planning.” Loren Baker, Search Engine
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Social media gives us the ability to practice in public more than ever before. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? If you’ve ever read The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen (I just finished reading it), you get a pretty clear read on what he thinks of most user-generated content: very
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We are all used to “Sound Bites” – a short few seconds of words which are normally taken out of context to create sensational headlines. Few people realise that speech writers have for years worked on developing speeches to include a couple perfect “sound bites” for use by others. Of course while some social media
Social Bites – Like Sound Bites But Different Read More »
Many of you have heard of the 3 P’s of marketing: pills, porn, and poker. They are the bane of most people’s online existence, as we are constantly bombarded with seeing these kinds of “offers” being sent to our spam filter. Enter Twitter. As you know me by now, I like to look at the
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Last fall a fellow by the name of Joe Hall got in touch with a new toy he was working on in hopes of getting some insight. Seems he wanted some insight from the tool’s perspective, being a Grade A tool myself, his reasoning seemed sound. I figured that was surly the reason as my
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