Archive for March, 2010:
Lost in Jargon
Having been in Israel for the last two weeks (hence the lack of posts) I can’t tell you how many times I have been frustrated by my ignorance of the local language. I find that rather than asking lots of questions, I just...
Managing Your Privacy
In my previous post I talked about how privacy was a modern creation, and that we should embrace the virtual “village” that social media creates. One of my readers (Tom Hume – check out his blog) pointed out that...
Privacy – A Modern Invention?
Photo by Alan Cleaver
A lot of people (especially people older than me) seem to talk a lot about privacy when they talk about social media. They ask who can see what, and question why it is necessary to be on LinkedIn, Facebook,...
Finding Your Voice
In my last blog about knowing who you are online I explained that the most important thing you can before you start to create an online presence for yourself is to find your voice. Discover what your passion is and the sound that...
Who Are You … Online?
Plenty of people, and companies, have jumped on the social media bandwagon. Two years ago jobs like mine didn’t exist, no one hired someone to manage a social media presence, or an online community manager, or a product evangelist....
Twitter Goody Bag
When Twitter first came out, there wasn’t even a real search function to see what was happening on Twitter, much less a way to analyze where people were Tweeting from, or what their influence on Twitter was. Now, there are...
Understanding why Tweeting is like Blogging
The typical response to me telling people I have a few Twitter accounts is “I don’t get Twitter.” The idea of using Twitter to interact with people, receive and share information, and so on somehow seems to escape the casual...
