Oh my, the kids at Facebook caused a ruckus this week! Depending on your point of view, the stuff they launched offers either blissful interconnectedness or the possibility of web domination.
Personally, I think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his crew are Borg; resisting their friendship is futile.
Three announcements at a recent San Francisco Facebook conference [...]
This article is a reprint, originally published in the Human Resources Association of Calgary newsletter.
Social media tools good for HR
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This is a reprint of an article originally published in the Valiant Trust newsletter.
Social media across the enterprise
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For once I was right. Yup, I said it — a phrase that rarely leaves my lips and is generally disallowed at home by she who sets the rules. In an earlier column, I predicted Twitter would launch an advertising service and this week it did. Of course, a monkey could [...]
It used to be the classifieds and career section were at the core of any job hunt, possibly with support by resume writing and interview services.
Then came Working.com, Monster.ca and Workopolis.com and things started to change. You could job hunt with e-mail alerts and key words. You could put yourself in [...]
Internet videos that gain rapid popularity are said to go viral. According to Wikipedia, such sharing started by e-mail in the mid-’90s: “Viral videos began circulating before the major video sharing sites such as YouTube, FunnyorDie, and CollegeHumor, by e-mail sharing. One of these early videos was ‘Dancing Baby,’ which surfaced in 1996.”
I remember the [...]
What happens when you throw a festival for Twitter users? You get a Twestival of course; one that quenches the thirst of attendees, typically at a local pub, but also slakes the thirst of people in developing nations.
This week, like many thousands of people around the world, I went to my [...]
This week I was speaking to a potential client who said their IT department was resisting use of Facebook for marketing purposes (and blocking it via the firewall) because, horror of horrors, there was a phishing scam going around.
This snoozy bit of non-news is classic fear-mongering by the IT “wizards in the dungeon,” a real [...]
The national anthem figured prominently on Google Trends this week thanks to the Harper government’s attempt to slip an edit to O Canada into the speech from the throne. CBC Radio’s Q asked tweeps to comment: @CBCRadioQ “The ‘O Canada’ Debate: Action or Distraction? tell the Q blog: cbc.ca/q #anthem”
Eliza Deary [...]
I am a man of modest desires. Little things like getting news items to show on both Twitter and a Facebook fan page thrill me. And really, is it too much to ask in this uber-connected social media universe that I could publish once and cascade that content many times?
Apparently, some days, it is.
Now [...]
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