social media

MC Hammer on Social Media

MC Hammer says it all about social media in 2 and a half minutes. And says it perfectly. Great, GREAT video from pblackshaw: While attending Snowcial (a relatively new conference that fuses social media and snow sports), I had a chance to interview the superb kickoff speaker, none other than MC Hammer. A social media [...]

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Coca-Cola's New Social Media Policy

Here’s a corporate giant (non-tech) with a social media policy that actually seems to make sense. (Via Digital Buzz, interview by Andy Sernovitz.)

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Social Media Platforms for Enterprise :: Cutting Down on the Noise

Involved in a business with strong social media engagement? Looking for a way to make Sharepoint more complete and collaborative? Trying to figure out how your business can integrate and shift towards using social media? Here’s Robert Scoble sitting down with Jive’s CEO, Dave Hersh, to openly discuss what’s changing with social media for business. [...]

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Best Social Media Presentation

There are a slew of presentation decks floating around online that consultants and agency folk have created in an effort to explain social media to their clients. I’m no PowerPoint or Keynote guy, but I have shaped several social media strategies for a handful of clients, so as a matter of course, was involved in [...]

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Social Media Improves Learning Abilities

Go figure. We’re humans. And we like interacting with other humans. So, when we interact, we learn more than we would by just watching other humans on a screen. Or so says Patricia Kuhl in an article that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal.

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Wrapping up my thoughts on the #CrunchUp.

“Before brands can collaborate externally with social media, they need to learn how to collaborate with themselves.” — Ross Mayfield I’ve had some time to digest the many ideas that were exposed on Friday. But to me, that quote from the final discussion was among the most poignant. Brands are increasingly engaging in social media [...]

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How to Start a Viral Meme in 1 easy lesson

What does this video have to do with digital communications? Everything. People/brands always want people to run to them and their stuff. They see it happen with others, so they copy it in a classic case of monkey-see monkey-do. And then they wonder why they get lukewarm results. Cause it’s not real. And it’s already [...]

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Google Wave :: Gmail going real-time?

As email becomes a bore and people move towards communicating more through Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and the like, we’ve seen some great integrated platforms develop–like Flock, my personal favorite. Never one to be left behind, Google is (of course) entering the picture by developing their own real-time platform. As cnet news is reporting today: Google [...]

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The Reciprocal Mindstate

We all know there’s many different people in this world, with many different values. One of the key differentiators of the age we live in, is what I call The Reciprocal Mindstate. Reciprocating is different today Now, giving has always been around, since the first cave family shared the first cave meal with the first [...]

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Twitter :: Fronting and Following

Lately, there’s been too much ado about nothing directed at Twitter. Meaning, lotsa pointless conversation and criticism. Mostly from people who have no clue what they’re talking about. Don’t get me wrong. I love Twitter. But if facebook is like having a private dinner party with friends, then Twitter is like mingling at a big party [...]

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