February, 2011

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Kenneth Cole Egypt debacle illustrates Five Rules of Social Media Crisis Communications

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Yesterday, in a failed attempt to make light of the current protests in Egypt to promote its products in a humorous way, Kenneth Cole tweeted: "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at [link] -KC" The reactions on Twitter and Facebook.

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In Other Social Media News Generalissimo Franco is Still Dead

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A few weeks ago, before New Years, Time magazine announced that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was its 2010 Person of the Year. Many thought the recognition was a year or two behind the curve. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was a runner-up in the magazine's ratings. Too bad Time went with.

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Everloop promises: No child left without a social graph

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Everloop, which bills itself as an e-learning social network, claims “All tweens are left out of the social graph because they must be over 13 in order to legally use services such as Facebook.

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Why are status updates important in internal social applications?

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One of the greatest appeals of external/public social media is the status update stream. I worked with one company that developed social business apps and used its own Twitter-like status update product internally. Most of the employees were engineers, many working remotely. This application gave them back a couple of.