Twitter has often been thought to be nothing more than an online space in which people share an internal monologue in 140 characters, share a lot of bit.ly links or used simply to follow @StephenFry. Twitter has now entered its fifth year and is not just being used by social media whizz-kids…
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Five Growing Uses for Twitter
August 24, 2011
Health Digital Check-Up: A Little Light Reading
July 27, 2010
It seemed helpful the first time the Check-Up doubled as a book club, so to continue the link sharing, here are another five resources to check out when you are looking for news in the digital health space.
Newsmap
There is never enough time in the day to keep up with trends and news. However, sometimes tracking down the big story is worth your time, and luckily there’s a really cool…
Digital Digest: July 20
July 20, 2010
Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement
With help from footage from Pemberton Music Festival in BC, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two). We talk a lot about influencer engagement but to make a movement, the first followers are as important as the influencer.
Six Steps For Dealing With Detractors
Dealing…
Digital Digest: July 12
July 12, 2010
How to Organize A Successful Meetup
While the social media world is a great place to forge connections with people. Eventually, you want to meet up with them IRL (in real life). Enter the meetup, an event geared to get to know your friends, likers, and followers in person. Mashable offers a how-to post.
Brands Offer Incentives for Location-based Check-ins
Now…
Friday Five: Places To Look For Platform-Specific News
July 9, 2010
We have a late-breaking Friday Five today that functions as the best kind of Ask the Experts column. When you need to know the latest and greatest on some of the most prominent social tools in the digerati arsenal, these five sources are the folks to read.
Foursquare
Foursquare’s company blog is updated only a few times a month with information about system upgrades and random musings from founder @dens, to get a more in depth look at the happenings at Foursquare I check out
Quick Hits: June 27
June 27, 2010
Write Your Headline- Write the Future
In honor of the World Cup, Nike has launched the largest LED screen in Johannesburg to display fan-submitted messages from Facebook, Mixit, QQ, and Twitter in support of their favorite players. As NOTCOT reports, The messages will appear across the LED screen which triggers an animation of the player mentioned. The user is then pinged back with a photo of their headline on the Life Center”.
Quick Hits: May 13
May 13, 2010
Twitter to Launch “Business Center”
Twitter is inviting a select group of businesses to beta test its new “Business Center”. This new tool is designed to allow businesses to set up company profiles and have multiple users tweet on its behalf. Most significantly, for the first time companies will be allowed to receive direct messages from anyone….even if the company…
Thoughts On Media Reforestation And Algorithmic Journalism
May 7, 2010
Originally posted on The Steve Rubel Stream.
Over a year ago, I published an essay on Media Reforestation. In a nutshell, it’s my belief that all tangible forms of media will be in sharp decline or extinct in just a few years. I followed that up this week with
Quick Hits: April 22
April 22, 2010
Google Places Tackles Location From the Search Angle
Google has renamed its Local Business Center to Places, and added a host of new features. Since many people use Google for location-based searches, it’ll be interesting to see how this competes with the growth of location-based social networks.
YouTube Introduces ‘Show & Tell’
YouTube…
Friday Five: Digital News Sources
March 26, 2010
News within the digital space breaks in real-time — the speed of the Internet, as it were, or at least the speed of the closest broadband network. Today’s Friday Five is dedicated to five sources for the latest and greatest in news. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good start and you can find more sources as you study what these five sites read and link to in return. It’s hard to say whether a hot new smartphone app or a POV on the impact of new government regulations will be most relevant to a company at any given hour, but these five spots will make sure…
