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Social Media Is Growing Up: You Can Stop Copying the Cool Kids Now

Bare Feet Studios

My partner @Shane sent me a link today “ Why They Stopped Using Foursquare &# by David Berkowitz. It summarizes a number of my social media friends and peers who have weaned themselves off this geo-location social network also known as a check-in service. Photo Credit: Sheep Alone by neate photos on Flickr.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months. That's all.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Flickr Creative Commons Search This is my go-to source for photos for the blog and presentations. Using Flickr’s advanced search, you can browse photos that are specifically made available under a Creative Commons license , allowing you to use them with attribution in blog posts, etc. I’ve tried Foursquare , too.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

So stop wasting your energy getting all wound up about 140-character complaints, and direct some of your best thinking to how you can get the people who think you’re as interesting as rice cakes to care about your brand one way or the other. Their brand management account followed me on Twitter after I posted, and retweeted my positive tweets.

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Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A regularly updated Fan Page brings greater awareness Community Page : What if you love something but you have no direct affiliation with the product/service, can’t find the official page, and worse, discover the page doesn’t even exist? Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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