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 [...]
May 26, 2010
The verdict is in. Despite my informal experiment just over a year ago that drew roughly the same conclusions, researchers presented on Monday research results that found the following: “Drawing a huge following on Twitter does not necessarily mean that your tweets will have much influence. It turns out that some noncelebrities with meager followings [...]
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 3, 2009
A Step-by-Step Guide for Success On Monday we began the journey on how to launch an effective grassroots political campaign. You may read part I here and part II is here. Here are the final steps for a successful campaign! 5. Play the victim. If your antagonist is evil (and by default, he is), you [...]
February 1, 2012