Tag: Social media

  • The Facebook Issue Summed Up

    Award winning cartoonist Clay Bennett has managed to capture the essence of the Facebook problem in a simple yet effective cartoon: 3/30/2018- Facebook #Facebook #Facebookgate #CambridgeAnalytica https://t.co/E95zFaT0R4 pic.twitter.com/z3yqBdGWWS — Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) March 30, 2018

  • Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2014

    Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2014

    Enjoyable, thought provoking keynote from Gary Vaynerchuk. While it runs at over an hour most of it is Q & A with the audience. Worth watching:

  • Marketers ..

    Marketers ..

    Gary Vaynerchuk posted this video earlier and I thought it was worth sharing:

  • Don’t Overemphasise Social Media

    Don’t Overemphasise Social Media

    Social media may be powerful, it may be useful and it might be the right tool for a lot of businesses, but it isn’t the solution to everything nor has it had impact on every single part of human activity. Via

  • If Toddlers Used Facebook

    If Toddlers Used Facebook

    George Takei “gets” social media and his Facebook page is probably one of the more amusing ones on Facebook. From earlier today:

  • Social Network Wars Explained

    Social Network Wars Explained

    Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services. Of course by doing this they can upset each other…

  • Social Media Revealed

    Social Media Revealed

    A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all. A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it. (Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are) The…

  • IIA Net Visionary Awards Revamps Social Media Category

    IIA Net Visionary Awards Revamps Social Media Category

    This year’s Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards features a social media category, as it has done for the last few years. However this year is slightly different. Instead of simply having a “best us of” type award they’ve renamed the category to: Most Creative Use of Social Media for compelling customer engagement And they…

  • Google To Kill Off Private Profiles

    As Google rejigs its entire user interface and renames a bunch of its services to fit in with its new web 3.0 (or whatever) vision user profiles are being changed. …. From July 31st 2011 private profiles are being not only disabled, but actually deleted: The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to…

  • Twitter Hits New Record

    Twitter has released another new statistic It’s now doing 200 million “tweets” per day. In January 2009 they were “only” sending 2 million / day. Here’s a nice graphic to show how that all compares with various other things: There’s a full blog post about it over on the official twitter blog. Of course they’re…