You love social. Me too. But too much of a good thing is possible. Here are 7 signs you might need time away from social media: When someone says, "size matters" your first thought is about Twitter follower counts. You actually believe that Justin Bieber is more influential than President…
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My friends at PR Daily report that: As part of a new contest, KFC is offering a $20,000 college scholarship to one lucky high school senior based on a tweet. “Any high school senior can win the four-year scholarship by writing a tweet with the hash tag #KFCScholar,” reports USA…
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You know about the type of headline I am referring to above. I write 'em. You write 'em. There supposed to be hooky/linkbaity/make you wanna click through to see shit kinda headlines. They're REALLY popular these days on the ol interwebs. But I am getting frikkin tired of them. Here, to be…
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Last week the first human being checked-in on Foursquare from space. According to the company, on October 22: "Expedition 25 Commander Douglas H. Wheelock became the first human to ever use a location-based service from space. Doug checked in from the International Space Station and unlocked the new NASA Explorer…
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Google "social media" and the Wikipedia entry comes up first. It says social media: "are media for social interaction using highly accessible and scalable pubishing techniques. Social media uses web-based technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogues." But Wikipedia is wrong. Here are 9 'awesome' definitions of social media: The group of…
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Twitter is massive. It has become the tool du jour for businesses, morons looking to broadcast their thoughts and attention whores everywhere. Some of the most interesting tweets we will, alas, never read. This is because the people who would’ve authored them are long dead. Here is what 16 historical…
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You might have heard that the North Korean Government is on Twitter. (And Facebook and Youtube as well). A tad bizarre for an organization whose chief interactions with its citizens involve spying on them and sending them to gulags. But there are, I have learned, sound reasons behind Pyongyang's foray into the 140 character world.…
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I had some social media guru follow me on Twitter recently. It got me thinking about what that term stands for. I think I figured it out: 'S' is for "so so." At most, this is the quality of advice you will get from the guru if you hire her/him.…
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La Lohan is in the slammer. Such is life for the young, hot and messy. Here are 8 thoughts she might have shared were it possible to tweet from a jail cell. 1 - The moonshine here is some strong. Thank God they took that monitor off me! 2 -…
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Picture it... Your firm is in crisis. It has caused a major environmental catastrophe. Everyone is out for blood. Your CEO, rather than get down and dirty, decides to go...wait for it...yachting. Yup, just a day in the life of BP! They don't, if memory serves, do much yachting in…
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