The Real Blind Influence

It is an interesting time for social media.  Fifteen years ago bulletin boards and  forums were the only platforms available.  Three to five years ago blogs, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook were carving out a niche.  This week Google announced Buzz which was added to the internet social landscape along with Twitter, Side Wiki, Wave, SlideShare, [...]

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About a year ago the big prediction was that mobile platforms were going to break out in 2009.  Their influence grew, but outside of Asia, the world is still way behind in utilizing the full potential of what’s available now for mobile computing much less what’s around the corner.
The latest 2010 breakthrough prediction is that [...]

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Yes, a picture really is worth a thousand words.  After a few weeks of poking at Google Wave & thinking the concept is cool, but the reality seems to have no juice, I saw Dave Michels post a link to this picture on Twitter and it said everything I had been thinking.

It was gratifying to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 is the [...]

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Leave it to the government, this time in the U.K., but they’re all buried in bureaucracy, to take 20 pages to encourage civil servants to tweet.
I totally understand this because I’m still owed money by a county government for work I did with them from July through September. Six weeks after I submitted invoices for [...]

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We have definitely hit the age of participatory media.  Old mass media is very sick and broadcast methods of interruption marketing have gone from annoying to impotent, but I don’t agree with the idea that mass media will die.  It will be re-engineered like all industries must in this time of change.
According to the loud [...]

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The times they are a changin’…

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I just read a London Telegraph article mistitled “The Social Media Revolution is Going Nowhere.” It included statements like
No wonder the company has yet to make any money, while Facebook, too, has yet to deliver on its financial potential. None of this is to say, of course, that the internet hasn’t had a profound [...]

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Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century.  Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid.
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