The Story of 2011
2010 is gone. Although it has been a great year with many things new and a handful of great challenges, 2011 is just up and running and I expect it to get even more awesome.
Posts tagged with »Social Media«
Post-modernist redux
We use very sophisticated technologies to fuel nothing but deeply rooted and basic human drives: to communicate and to procreate. Anything else is just word-art well written.
It’s the #crowd you #fail with!
In my recent article over at brainwash I tell brands to shut up, if they can’t give valuable input.
Social Media Semantics – Part 1: To »Like« something
»When I use a word,« Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, »it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.« – »Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There« by Lewis Carroll –
Beyond dialogue with the Snow Leopard
“In delivery” it reads on my Apple Store account. »Snow Leopard« the sixth iteration of Apple’s Mac OS X will ship by the end of this week. In today’s post over at the brainwash blog I try to gasp at the secrets – if there are any – behind Apple’s communication strategy. So take a [...]
The hub-centric approach
Which services are you using right now in terms of social media? Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, LastFM, Flickr, YouTube, etc. The list goes on forever with more and more services popping out of the web every day. They all have their specific benefit for you as a user as well as for your followers or subscribers. But with an uncountable number of services available at your finger tips the task of managing and keeping them all up-to-date gets harder and more complicated. Building a hub around your digital activities can simplify your update affords as well as make it easier for your friends and subscribers to follow you.
What does success look like?
Success is a number. If you can’t measure it isn’t worth the afford. But what number do you look for? How can success be measured and what does it look like in a social media context?
How to … lose your friends in 5 simple steps
Ever wondered how you could destroy your friends’ digital DNA in the most efficient way? Look no further. If you follow these 10 simple steps they will not only become digital DNA zombies but will also abrogate your friendship (at least on Facebook) ultimately. Publish images showing your friends in crappy situations (wearing nothing but [...]
Evolution or regression
I recently came across Twitvid. A small microblogging service to make it easy for you to tweet videos. Of course it is intended to be used in conjunction with the original Twitter service. I’m still not sure what I should think about it. Countless (well, to be hones, not that “countless”) videos without any apparent [...]
Polluted communication
What’s it all about? Polluted communication is the term for information that is either unsolicited or sent by an unknown or at least not well-known communication subject, i.e. sender. Polluted communication not only relates to the information being transmitted but also to the dynamic process of exchanging information. It usually includes sending or receiving information [...]