The Cost of Not Using Social Media

Today’s post provided by regular contributor and commentor @timbursch, you can read more thoughts from Tim on hos own blog http://timbursch.com/ Everyone’s using social media to reach more customers, right? Most major brands have at least established a presence. But what if you’re not convinced? What if the initial investment is … Continue reading

Facebook Resurrected The Lifestream and Killed Your Personal Blog

A thought hit me when Facebook rolled out the Subscribe feature.  The first was that it allowed for asynchronous following relationships like on Twitter and Google+. Anyone can subscribe to your public updates.  They will of course see this in their own Facebook stream. I noted a year and a half ago … Continue reading

Social Networking is at an Inflection Point with Exponential Growth in Sharing.

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My quick take on the Skype/Facebook partnership is that it doesn’t sound like much, but this will be huge, especially for families. I can guarantee this will push @jenxmusic’s parents over the edge to finally join Facebook so they can talk to their grand kids. (Disclosure Microsoft is a client, we’ve done … Continue reading

How and Why I’m Using Tumblr: As Status Management Not Blog Replacement.

After this weeks incident with Twitter “disappearing” me for a day I decided I needed to rethink how I was using Twitter and all of the other social networking and publishing tools I was using. Up until not Twitter has been the central hub for all of my social networking. … Continue reading

Early Adopters Are Not Ready To Leave Facebook or Twitter Yet

We’re used to users on Facebook revolting every time they make a change to anything. And recently we’ve started to see dissent towards the ecosystem changes Twitter has started to make. Usually as services move towards the mainstream they start to change in order to accommodate new, more profitable, mainstream users. … Continue reading

Yet Another 10 Social Media and Tech Predictions for 2011

This is last speculative predictions post you’ll read here for a long while. Promise. This year I’m taking the same format as I did last year, I posted my really big predictions for the next 5 years yesterday and today I’m following it up with a more speculative top 10 … Continue reading