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Top 10 Words Rendered Meaningless by Social Media

March 10, 2009

In no particular order, here are the top 10 words turned meaningless by collective bandwagon jumping onto what is being called new, or social, media: 10. Community 9. Social 8. Strategy/strategist 7. Top 6. Platform 5. Market/ing 4. Consultant 3. Relate/relationship 2. Value 1. Transparency Honorable mention for being suspiciously overused: evangelist. Please add yours in [...]

Please Make It Stop

February 27, 2009

10 Ways to Deal With Social Media Gone Awry I had the bright idea this week to create a second Twitter account for myself, one to separate my ‘personal’ account from one that represents my ‘professional’ persona (don’t laugh please … it’s a work in progress). Dovetailing on this thought was another idea to see [...]

The Strumpette Videos: Breaking Ground by Stating the Obvious

January 30, 2009

  Bill Sledzik’s blog, Tough Sledding, is one of the very few I get excited to read when a new post shows up. So it was with anticipation that I was waiting when it was announced on Tough Sledding the he and Andy Curran, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, were to release [...]

5 New Media Facts and Fallacies

January 10, 2009

Relative newcomers facing exposure to online media appear to have adopted assumptions about the uniqueness of these technologies. With that in mind, here are five points to be considered -- basically, that media as we know it today has roots back to hunter-gatherer rock art.

The Nevada New Media Conundrum

January 4, 2009

If blogs are good for one thing, it’s for stirring up a good shit storm. That’s been the case since blogs have been around. Daniel Solove’s book, “The Future of Reputation,” wonderfully details the more noted online controversies in the history of the Internet. And in Reno, ever since I began reading the blogs here [...]