Kids and Christmas
We recently produced this at the Church (I am in charge of Social Media Strategy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). It’s a culmination of an amazing team that I think did a great job on this. This is one of the cuter videos I think we’ve produced, and it has a […]
Read more...With New Profile Design, Facebook Launches List Sharing (Like Twitter’s, but Better)
Facebook has had lists long before Twitter – I remember writing about them in I’m on Facebook–Now What??? almost 3 years ago. Lists are a powerful, but less-used (according to Mark Zuckerberg) feature of Facebook that enable anyone on Facebook to customize their status updates and Privacy settings so that only select groups of friends […]
Read more...Microsoft Offering Free Windows 7 Phones for Black Friday
I’ve had my criticism of Microsoft in the past, but the new Microsoft keeps pulling me back. Just a few minutes ago on the Windows Facebook Page Facebook announced: “Here is a Black Friday sneak peek for our social media fans: Visit your local Microsoft Store this weekend, starting November 26, to pick up Windows […]
Read more...Now You Can "Like" Any Tweet on Twitter.com
As part of Kynetx’s Facebook App contest I wrote a simple browser extension that you can install on Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Firefox, which allows you to, in addition to the “retweet”, “favorite”, and “reply” links you see when you mouse over a Tweet, you can also now “like” the Tweet as well. What does […]
Read more...Twitter’s Gnip Deal Ensures a Closed Ecosystem
Today, at Defrag conference, Twitter announced a new deal with the Real-Time stream proxy Gnip, where for $360,000 per year they will search 50% of all content posted to Twitter. This move follows the move, as I mentioned earlier, of Twitter moving further and further away from an open platform, and more towards one they […]
Read more...How to Get a User’s E-mail With Facebook Messages, and Why it Doesn’t Matter
It appears that Facebook has taken the Higher Ground. I also warned on Twitter that when Facebook opens up, they also innovate. That, they did today as they launched their new “Facebook Messages” product, a “Social Inbox” intended to change the way you communicate with your close friends and family. The new service also creates […]
Read more...Facebook, Play the Higher Ground
I was wrong. On Twitter, Buzz, and on Scoble’s blog I was insisting there was a way to retrieve Email addresses via Facebook‘s API. That’s because I truly thought there was. In fact, I had this scathing blog post ready criticizing Google on playing games with Facebook (which I think is wrong and evil, too) […]
Read more...Forget Facebook and MySpace – Wall Street Journal Shares Your Information Too
It seems like every other day Wall Street Journal is talking about some other Social Networking site that is revealing all your information to 3rd party advertisers. First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers. Next, they created, then deleted, then […]
Read more...How do I get People to Interact and Build Lasting Relationships?
Today I received 2 similar requests, so I thought I’d share the answer here so others could learn as well. The question was, “How do I get people to interact and build lasting relationships?” Other forms of the question previously have been, “how do I build my followers?” or, “how do I create traffic?” There’s […]
Read more...Want to Come to Hawaii? I’ve Got a Great Excuse for You
I hear there’s no better time to visit Hawaii than October. It’s just when things are starting to get cold in many states in the U.S., and I hear the weather is great there. On October 5, I’m going to be speaking at the Hawaii Social Media Summit at the Ala Moana Hotel, and I’ve […]
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