Society is increasingly entangled online, which means we are frequently connecting with one another in ways we would not have done in person prior to the Internet. It’s clear that online social media have transformed societies in recent years; anyone who’s been paying attention to news coverage has noticed how online media is frequently driven [...]
November 27, 2010
Earlier this year, my friend and colleague Christel Hall hooked me up with Eric Schwartzman for an “On the Record” podcast. A few notes: Information presented in this interview was gleaned from a number of sources. The first was a story by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which had compiled records on the top water users [...]
September 25, 2009
It’s been a bad week for the social media gurus. First Mark Schaefer called them out collectively, and some individually, for constant backslapping and creating, inadvertently or not, a country club atmosphere where eveything is fine and cozy. Sadly, he’s correct. And the pseudo gurus were none-too-quick to jump in with defenses of their own. [...]
June 25, 2009
This has been a long time coming. Although people have had in their pockets the means to transmit breaking news for at least a decade, increased social networking – particularly Twitter, Facebook and Youtube—has finally garnered enough traction to spread information to the masses. Three events just this year have set the stage for this. [...]
June 22, 2009
Strategically monitoring and managing your online reputation If you are not aggressively monitoring your own and your organization’s online presence, you are not only missing big-time opportunities, you are also potentially enabling damage toward reputations that might otherwise be avoided. Here’s why: What is said about you online is more critical now than ever before [...]
February 1, 2012