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The 5 requirements for using RSS aggregation to build your online presence
Oct 15, 2010 | Community, How nonprofits can use social media
If your organization’s online audience is smaller than a million, an aggregation-based web site may be your best best for creating a lively social media presence. This posts maps out the 5 essential ingredients for a successful aggregation strategy.
Social media is the jar my brain sits in
Oct 14, 2010 | Self
Brain-in-a-jar images of the future are usually presented as dystopian. But for many years, I found the brain-in-a-jar lifestyle nothing short of enviable: what could be better than eternal life, or even just regular old life, than dispensing with the annoyances of...
The Rule of 84: Social media for your limited budget or small audience
Oct 13, 2010 | Community
Creating a social media presence in 2010
Oct 12, 2010 | Community
Where The Social Network fails, does Gossip Girl succeed?
Oct 8, 2010 | Lifestyle
My latest blog post for Harvard Business Review talks about what The Social Network tells us about social media. Or rather, it looks at what The Social Network doesn't tell us about social media, since the movie used the birth of Facebook as the backdrop for a...
The Social Network: A Good Movie That’s Not About Social Networking
Oct 8, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Singin’ in the Rain has been my favorite movie for almost 30 years. It’s got classic music, extraordinary dancing and,…
13 tips for using Facebook events instead of pages, groups or apps
Oct 7, 2010 | Facebook, Toolbox, SIM, How nonprofits can use social media
If you’re creating a participatory project on Facebook, consider creating an event rather than a Facebook page. An event can provide an easy way of inviting people into your Facebook conversation, and you can use these 13 tips to make the most of it.
Coming to terms with groupness, on- and offline
Oct 6, 2010 | Community, How to build community online
How your life online can satisfy your need for belonging, community and “groupness”.
Locative technologies help us redefine what presence means
Oct 5, 2010 | Self
Simon King has a provocative blog post about the relationship between using technologies on-location, and actually being present in the location where you're checking. He begins by comparing e-readers and smartphones to books or magazines: In my experience, there is a...
Eat my words: a dinner club for copy editors
Oct 4, 2010 | Lifestyle
Rob and I love to go out for dinner, but food is rarely the highlight of the meal. Usually, the high point is the process of copy editing the menu. It's rare (virtually unheard of!) for us to dine at a restaurant that is typo-free, grammatically correct and...