Archive for October, 2009

Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet)

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Social Media | Oct 29, 2009 | Tags: david gillespie, digital strangelove, slideshare | 6 Comments

So either you don’t ‘get’ all this whiz bang social media buzz or you do ‘get it’ and can’t understand why people who don’t use social media platforms daily don’t get it. Either way, you need to watch this great SlideShare presentation by David Gillespie. Also read his blog, which is both insightful and humorous. ...Read more.

Why Does The Social Web Matter to You? – Part Two

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Social Media | Oct 20, 2009 | Tags: facebook, trust communities, twitter | 3 Comments

This the follow up to a post I wrote last week. It seemed a little more palatable to serve this up in smaller chunks. So here are more musings based on my research, experience and conversations with people confused about this whole social media thing. I hope this helps you to understand the social media ...Read more.

Augmented Reality Promises to Change How You Use Your Phone

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Consumerism, Social Media, Videos | Oct 16, 2009 | Tags: augmented reality, cell phone, internet, iPhone, jeremiah owyang, mobile phone, smart phone, web strategy | 3 Comments

I’ve seen other videos on what’s happening with augmented reality, a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality. But after seeing this video in a great post by Jeremiah Owyang, I had to pass it on. ...Read more.

Magical Thinking Can Kill You: 2 Dead, 19 Hospitalized After Paying $9,933 for Seminar

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Influence, Media, Movies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Spin | Oct 13, 2009 | Tags: back end marketing, back of the room marketing, bob tzu, death, duhism, get rich quick, get rich seminars, jack canfield, james arthur ray, law of attraction, magical thinking, michael beckwith, rhonda byrne, self help, self help book, self help guru, self help seminars, seminars, shelf help, sweat lodge, t harv eker, the secret | 7 Comments

Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ‘self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ will never ...Read more.

Why Does The Social Web Matter to You? – Part One

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Social Media | Oct 12, 2009 | Tags: communicaiton, email, facebook, generation y, ggole sidewiki, google wave, niche communities, personal branding, smart phone, social web, tribes, trust communities, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter search, user generated content | 7 Comments

Photo source: Bilal Al-badry’s blog The main conversations around social media are misguided by debating the usefulness of the tools based on people with limited knowledge misusing them. Like all human communication, some of what people use the tools for will be nonsense and some will be valuable. How people individually use social networking tools ...Read more.

Why You Should Run From Most ‘Social Media Consultants’

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Influence, Marketing, Social Media, Videos | Oct 5, 2009 | Tags: ROI, social media guru, soical media expert, soical networking | 4 Comments

The biggest problem in the social media landscape these days is the thousands of ‘experts’ with little to no business experience or success. Lots of unemployed marketers, PR people, advertising people and Generation Y folks with Twitter accounts and blogs are pimping themselves out as ‘Social Media Experts’ or ‘Social Media Consultants.’ If you’re looking ...Read more.