Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. FourSquare and Gowalla go Back to the Future The new location-based darlings FourSquare and Gowalla are stealing a lot of the place-based intimacy that originally propelled Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

The rise of the social media website plugin is allowing its functionality to metastasize across the web to become a part of the infrastructure – Facebook’s little announcement is the first of what will undoubtedly be many such initiatives to make social websites the default.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

A religious institution using a personal profile which uses default privacy to broadcast information about its offerings. Contributions on a Facebook event wall that come from a social media aficionado whose name clearly isn’t on his (her?) Even social media “purists&# aren’t really that pure.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The Conference Isn’t That Good Whether it was their fourth time or first, every person I spoke to within my social media bubble (and I asked about 50) said the same thing – “I was surprised by how bad some of the sessions were.&# More so than any other event I attend, SXSW is conference roulette.

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