When Facebook rolled out with “Places” last year, like many of their feature upgrades, it came with a feature called “Tag Friends with You” turned on by default. This feature would allow your friends to check you in anywhere, even if you weren’t there, and even if you didn’t want to be checked in. It turns out that the new Facebook Places brings this feature back, but you can’t prevent people from tagging you at all, you can only remove the tags from you own profile. While usually, Facebook tends to count on the trade blogs, like this post by All read more...
How to Recover When Rumors About Your Brand Go Viral and Become Urban Legend
How does the average person know if an urban legend is true or false? It has happened to all of us. You get an email from a parent, a friend, the guy who likes to send jokes. Usually it looks something like the image of the email below which claims Tyson Foods is eliminating the American Labor Day holiday for the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr holiday. Usually it claims that the company in question read more...
Does Content Really Rule in Social Media?
Have you ever read a blog post that drew you in with its raw talent to draw a picture and tell a story? Ann Handley’s ANNARCHY blog is one of those. She is a person who can write about the death of child or the phenomenon of Alpha and Beta moms with equal eloquence. She also has been at the helm of the read more...
Should Communicators Pay Attention to Google+? A Panel Filmed with G+ Hangout Feature
This past week, which most people were simply enjoying a long holiday weekend in the US, early adopters of social media have been enjoying Google's new social media play, meant to challenge Facebook - and to a lesser extent, Twitter, for dominance in social interaction. And unlike Google Wave and Google Buzz before it, which largely failed out of the gate, Google+ seems to have more staying power. All of the people you expect are kicking read more...
The Commoditization of Social Media: And What We Can Learn from the “Old Days”
Photo: Early PR bloggers Phil Gomes and David Parmet at the NewComm Forum in 2007 Since the early days of blogging, when we were all dazzled by the ability of social media to connect us to other likeminded people, and those with fiercely opposed viewpoints could laugh at read more...
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