There has been lots of good conversation over at the Zoetica Salon this week about building Custom Facebook tabs (image above is the tab for the Zoetica Salon built on Beth Kanter’s Fanpage). It was of particular interest to me since I built two such tabs within the last month, one the Nonprofit read more...
The Six Degrees of Separation and of Actor Kevin Bacon Reimagined
The six degrees of separation is the idea that every person is within six degrees of knowing every other person on earth. In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories titled Everything is Different. In one of the stories, the characters created a game to prove that any two people could be connected through at most five acquaintances. That was (obviously) well before the Internet and the connected social web we all now know. In 1990, author-editor read more...
Google Update: How to Find Old Conversations from Twitter
Someone pinged me today asking about how to find an old hashtag conversation on Twitter. Awhile back I would have had to say they were out of luck. But thanks to a deal with Google that was penned earlier this year, older tweets can be found. I found it wasn’t really all that intuitive to use the new Updates Search feature but it does provide hope for the data miner and procrastinator alike. According to Google, they have Tweets back to February 11, 2010, and this simple search for my Twitter name shows read more...
How to Use Twitter’s Embeddable Tweets Feature on Your Blog, Step-By-Step
There was lots of talk today about Twitter's entry into the Android market with its own app. However, another interesting announcement was a tool to allow you to embed a tweet. Here is an example of a tweet about this new development that I made earlier today: Twitter's embeddable tweets feature should give it some branding and Google juice http://bit.ly/bqPI14read more...
RT This Post: Why Twitter Is Making Us Lazy
It has always been hard to get people to do what you want them to do. In fact, if you try to get me to do something, chances are I won’t. It is one of my fatal flaws. I am stubborn like that, but I am willing to bet that a lot of you are, too. Public relations professionals and marketers have been trying to overcome this inertia for centuries. It is one of the reasons people look at our profession as little more than spin and persuasion. Then along came social media and… read more...
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