Archive for August, 2010

The Dark(er) Side of Social Media

Aside from the privacy issues (Facebook), the inability to monetize (Twitter) and the fact that we humans spend more time in front of technology and why that’s bad, Social Media has alternative dark-sides.  That dark side is the distribution of information. The media has always controlled how we the public receive news.  It wasn’t until [...]

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Hmm

A couple of domains are taken, but I think this one would do nice with the domain:  http://www.thesocialmediadude.com What do you think eh?

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Secondary Education and Social Media (Part 3)

Students have to be reminded constantly to do their work — high school kids anyway.  In college, you pay the tuition and whether you do the work is up to you.  Or you can be Steve Jobs, leave, and never bother again but receive the occasional honorary degree. What a digression. I mentioned several weeks [...]

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Grandma, Social Media and Etiquette

This is from FruitZoom, a social media site, providing 50 etiquette lessons for social media.  Which one is your favorite? Just because someone follows ya’ does NOT mean they are your true friend. Twitter, tweets, twits…. it’s really all the same but only the newbies use the word twit.   Don’t call anyone a twit. [...]

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Location, Location, Location

Realtors abuse this word like crazy — and hell, why not?  If it weren’t for location, then homes simply would not sell.  But what about social media? Facebook jumped into the whole location based social media war yesterday by unveiling their own little product, Facebook Places.  You can view this on your Apple phone or [...]

Thursday, August 19th, 2010