Tag Archives: Social Networking

Don’t Invade My Space

The following is a guest post from Bob Sale and if we had our way, there will be more to come from him. In order to illuminate why social networking sites such as Myspace might be misleading to employers, let me paint you a mind picture: You’re an employer.  You received a resume that caught your attention because it was really good……a little too really good.  You become suspicious and decide to research the person’s personality by googling their name.  You type in Rob Jansen into the search engine and …
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[Textless Tuesday] Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

His article on the over-hyped Internet is also a good read.

Mothers and Facebook

I know a technology has reached maturity when my mom starts using it. I remember, my mother was always fairly familiar with technology. However she has always been behind the curve compared to my generation and people more familiar with technology. My parents started using e-mail in the mid 90′s. They didn’t really start taking advantage of smart phones and PDAs until 2002-2003. They’re both in their fifties now, err, I mean mom is 38. And when they do adopt new technologies, they usually end up using them fairly regularly, …
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Social Media Club LA Wrap-Up

pic used w/permission of Wm. Marc Salsberry of TechZulu (more pics & videos can be found at their site) I had the pleasure of attending the LA Social Media Club event at Mahola‘s headquarters here in LA this past Monday night. Approximately 200 people in and outside of the social media realm attended the event which included dinner, drinks, networking, and a panel discussion emceed by Jackie Peters of HeavyBag Media and including Nicole Jordan from Rubicon Project, Michael Dorausch a chiropractor who’s use social media as a pioneer in …
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Going the way of the buffalo, what’s the future of social news?

I’ve been thinking lately about social news sites. Sites like reddit and digg. They were interesting ideas at their inceptions, but increasingly lend themselves towards complete crap. If I see another lolcat, another duplicate article about this or that presidential candidate, or something else on global warming, I just might have to take my own life. I rarely visit these sites (that I used to spend hours on a day) anymore. I tend to let my friends filter the news for me, they seem to do a much better job …
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How do social networks build community?

I’ve thought about this quite a bit lately. I’ve actually come to wonder if they do help build community at all. I seem to experience less community now than I did before I had a Myspace, Facebook, or Virb membership. I think part of this is because of the isolation that telecommunications seems to foster. Talk is cheap, we can talk with anyone we want to any time we want. Since supply is so high, we value people’s words and opinions very little. Community, real community that matters, that has …
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[SociaList] April 11, 2008

28 Million Mobile Subscribers Responded to At Least One Mobile Ad “According to a new report from The Nielsen Company, twenty-three percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers say they’ve been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days. Half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising in the previous 30 days say they responded to a mobile ad.” Social networking websites protect children, says Bebo “Social networking websites are taking their duty to protect younger users more seriously following …
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