Socialized

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Twitter recently rolled out its Geotagging capability on a limited basis. Enterprise Social Software Applications Will Become Commonplace. These companies could end up being acquired.

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Socialized

JANUARY 22, 2010

Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. and went on to cite statistics that show both e-mail and social networking use on the increase. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead?

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Socialized

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It’s been replaced by Facebook, Twitter and online collaboration. In fact, it indicated e-mail use was growing, just not as fast as social network adoption. In my November Talent Zoo column I attempt to debunk five social media myths. Everyone knows e-mail is dead. Well, not exactly.

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Socialized

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I recently gave a talk at Golden Gate University titled Career Development & Job Search in a Social Media World. I talked about social network etiquette, the strategy behind building a network of professional associates, how to present one’s self online, and what recruiters are looking for, and what they hate.

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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. Tags: Social Media.

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Socialized

DECEMBER 14, 2009

About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010. Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent.

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Socialized

JANUARY 31, 2010

The free-form writing style of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is changing the way people communicate, and causing students to fail English. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking.

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Socialized

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

I recently posted my Brief List of 53 Twitter Rules , guidelines for how I choose to use Twitter. I got a great response, and one person commented they liked Twitter “because there weren’t rules.&# In addition to the TOS, there are also The Twitter Rules. If you use Twitter as a kind of AIM/MySpace 2.0,

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Socialized

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I was interviewed recently by Canadian Press , and subsequently a number of radio stations across Canada, on the effect of social networking on student language skills. The title of the Canadian Press article was Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching , but I don’t necessarily agree with that.

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Socialized

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I was reviewing my Twitter follower list this morning and came across a potentially disturbing account tweeting what appears to be someone’s private information. I reported this account by sending a Direct Message to @spam on Twitter. If it’s for real, I hope Twitter shuts it down soon.

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Socialized

JULY 7, 2009

Social media just got faster. Immediacy is one of the Six Valuable Attributes of Social Media. We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. Erick Schmidt commented (in two separate tweets): “Video has become inherently social.

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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. was recently introduced , which is quite attractively laid out, and includes Twitter-inspired graphics.

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Socialized

JULY 6, 2010

So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Your company is truly social, isn’t it? But none of these things equates to being truly social. Being social, or being engaged with consumers, is a deep cultural attitude that a company either has or doesn’t have.

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Socialized

JANUARY 20, 2010

Nick Sobrak-Seaton and I, and maybe a few surprise guests, will be on KSCO Santa Cruz AM radio this Saturday talking about social media as a marketing and communications tool for businesses and non-profits. Ethical social media business practices. Social networking Etiquette. Tune in or catch it streaming.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

And are those of us risking our lives every day on the social media front lines any less deserving of respect? Foursquare takes the dynamics of social networking — things like trust, common interests and authenticity — and adds these other dimensions of esteem, belongingness, etc. create new badges.&#.

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Socialized

MAY 14, 2010

Follow the Electronic Frontier Foundation , the ACLU , and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Twitter. I have also created a Twitter list of Internet law and privacy experts. Use Facebook, Twitter, and your blog if you have one, to inform others of developments in Facebook’s ongoing privacy saga. Inform Your Friends.

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Socialized

MARCH 26, 2010

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Witness Google, with Google Buzz, which has generated some interest but doesn’t really seem poised to destroy Twitter. I don’t think so. Wagers anyone? *

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Socialized

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In an effort to better understand the social media phenomenon, it often helps to turn to experts in the field. But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates.

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Socialized

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I think one of the issues here is the inflation of language so pervasive in social networking. On the home page of its regular web site is a link titled Community Hub , which leads to the company’s blog as well as providing links to its Facebook , Twitter and YouTube accounts. Why do you have a Facebook Fan Page?

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Socialized

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us take for granted the meaning of the word “social” when we think of social media and social networking. For the techie, social software is most likely built using Web 2.0’s Facebook arguably has more social features and more ease of use than any other site. But what does it really mean?

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JULY 25, 2016

Here’s what someone posted as a comment: “I’m always a bit surprised that anyone on social thinks they “own their feed” Not true on Facebook. Not true on twitter. In more practical terms, if we follow someone on Twitter, you could call that subscribing to their feed (and people commonly do).

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