Socialized

APRIL 11, 2010

How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? With the introduction of Foursquare and other location-based services, we started publishing our precise location data, and now with Blippy , our friends can see our credit card purchases as we make them.

Social Networking 227

Social Networking Foursquare Crowdsourcing Health Care 227

Socialized

MAY 19, 2010

Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. In other words, they are not using a social network. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

Social Networking 216

Social Networking Privacy Journal Web 2.0 216

Socialized

MARCH 15, 2010

The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. That’s because we’re publishing, not conversing.

Conversation 247

Conversation Social Media Privacy Aggregator 247

Socialized

DECEMBER 28, 2009

This morning’s Network World offers a list (also published in Computerworld ) of five “must-read&# social media marketing books and suggests it’s “time to get smart with these 5 essential books.&# The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web by Tamar Weinberg.

Social Media 170

Social Media Handbook Collaboration Review 170

Socialized

DECEMBER 14, 2009

About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010. Based on the comments the piece received, I’ve updated it and Talent Zoo published it this morning. They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.; 2010 is about two weeks away after all.

SocialText 157

SocialText Social Media Foursquare Microsoft 157

Socialized

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Tags: Social Media Brightkite Foursquare Gowalla GPS Location Based Services triangulation.

Foursquare 173

Foursquare GPS Social Media iPhone 173

Socialized

MAY 27, 2010

Interesting piece in the Baltimore Sun by Garrison Keillor on the death of publishing and intellectualism. Keillor takes on the self-publishing movement (as might any author of a “real&# book): “And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a website. No problem.

Publishing 174

Publishing Social Networking Sites Social Media 174